Metrowest Daily News 8/6/09: Ballot initiatives include toll repeal, sales tax cut. Wayland’s Carla Howell, of the anti-tax Center for Small Government, has submitted a range of ballot questions seeking to cut the recently hiked 6.25 percent state sales tax to anywhere from 5-2.5%. Howell filed four proposals to cut the sales tax to 5%, 4%, 3% or 2.5%. Proponents will decide soon which to pursue, or whether to give voters an option of two ballot questions, she said. As proposed, the cut would go into effect on January 1, 2011.