GOP gubernatorial candidate Brian Shortsleeve is crowdsourcing his distaste for Gov. Maura Healey’s proposal to allow cities and towns to boost auto excise taxes.

Healey has refiled the Municipal Empowerment Act, which allows municipalities to help balance budgets by raising the auto exise tax and also taxes on hotel stays and meals out.

The ceiling for the meals tax would climb from .75% to 1%.

The hotel tax, if the bill passes, can go from 6% to 7%. In Boston, the tax would increase by 6.5% to 7.5%.

And, the auto excise tax portion — that Shortsleeve is targeting with an online petition — creates a new up to 5% local option Motor Vehicle Excise surcharge “that can be either dedicated to local stabilization funds or treated as general fund revenue,” the Healey administration says in a

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