Question 6State law · Citizen initiative
Create Nature for All Fund
Explain it like I'm 5
This creates a special money jar for parks, clean water, trails, and wildlife. It uses some sales-tax money the state already collects, rather than creating a new tax.
Yes vote
A yes vote creates the Nature for All Fund and directs specified existing sales-tax revenue to conservation, subject to legislative appropriation.
No vote
A no vote leaves those revenues under the current state budget rules.
The question to ask yourself
Is dedicated conservation funding worth giving the state less flexibility over existing revenue?
The case for
- Provides dedicated funding for parks, land, water, and trails.
- Uses existing taxes without raising tax rates.
- Could support conservation grants for communities and organizations.
Backed by: Mass Audubon, The Trustees of Reservations, Conservation Law Foundation, The Nature Conservancy
The case against
- Leaves lawmakers less flexibility in future budgets.
- The redirected money could otherwise support health care, education, or other priorities.
- Because appropriations remain required, the fund does not guarantee spending.
Opposed by: No organized opposition found
- Money
- The measure does not create a new tax; it redirects existing sales-tax revenue, with 50 percent directed initially and 100 percent after July 1, 2028, but the amount is not estimated in the official summary.
- Don't be misled
- Calling it a new sales tax is misleading because it redirects specified existing sales-tax receipts.