Massachusetts voters were all set to vote on a ballot measure this November to cut the state’s basic income tax rate to 4% from 5%. The state also has a 4% “millionaire tax” that raises its income tax to one of the highest in the nation.

The ballot measure would have saved the average couple about $2,000 and a Boston Globe poll this month shows the measure ahead by a 66% to 21% margin.

But the state’s Supreme Court just ruled that the state attorney general, Andrea Joy Campbell, had failed to write a “fair, concise summary” of the initiative and said it would be misleading to keep it on the ballot because it hadn’t specified that capital gains taxes would be cut.

It’s a bogus minor technicality by the courts to deny voters the right to have their say.

“I am ecstatic,” the state Senate president, Abby Spilka (a Democrat) gushed.

So for now, the Bay State will be stuck with a tax status quo that has contributed to the state losing 182,000 residents since 2020. The court’s decision will only accelerate the “vote with your feet” exodus from Taxachusetts.