Health Care

An Open Letter to Governor LePage

Dear Governor LePage, You’ve got a jobs problem. Since you took office, Maine ranks 46th in job growth and 47th in state economic growth. We’re last in […]

Garrett Martin

Posted June 13, 2013

Tags Affordable Care Act, Budget, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Taxes and Budget

Time to Get Serious About Solving Maine’s Budget Crisis

Governor LePage’s budget proposal raises taxes. It contains property tax increases AND income tax increases. There are better solutions. Unfortunately, when Democratic members of the Legislature’s Appropriations […]

Garrett Martin

Posted June 5, 2013

Tags Appropriations Committee, Budget

Taxes and Budget

Eliminating the State Income Tax Would Be Bad for Maine. Here’s Why.

At a Blaine House press conference yesterday Governor LePage announced that if elected to a second term, he will seek to eliminate the state income tax. This […]

Garrett Martin

Posted May 21, 2013

Tags Budget, Income Tax, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

5 Ways to Solve Maine’s Budget Crisis and Prevent Property Tax Increases

Legislators are working to close a $938 million budget gap that is the result of the worst recession since the Great Depression and unpaid-for tax cuts that […]

Garrett Martin

Posted May 20, 2013

Tags Budget, Property Tax, Revenue, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

8 Points about the “Gang of 11” Tax Plan

Tax reform must do more for working families and to ensure funds to educate our children, build strong communities, and grow Maine’s economy Recently a group of […]

Garrett Martin

Posted May 9, 2013

Tags Budget, Jobs, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Two Steps toward Tax Fairness

At MECEP we’ve written often about the lack of fairness in Maine’s tax system. The bottom 20 percent of Mainers pay 17 cents on every dollar earned […]

Garrett Martin

Posted March 21, 2013

Tags Budget, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Two different proposals, but only one is right for Maine

Right now the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are debating two vastly different budget proposals that would take Maine—and our entire country—in two very […]

Garrett Martin

Posted March 20, 2013

Tags Budget

Taxes and Budget

Get the Facts on How Revenue Sharing Cuts Are Affecting Your Town

Earlier this week, I wrote a letter to the editor of my local newspaper (included below). In doing research for the letter, I came across a spreadsheet produced by […]

Garrett Martin

Posted October 25, 2012

Tags Budget, Local, Municipal Revenue Sharing

Maine’s Economy

What New Census Data Say About Maine’s Economy

Today the US Census Bureau released data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on income, health insurance coverage, and poverty. Maine ranks in the middle of the […]

Garrett Martin

Posted September 12, 2012

Tags Economy

Health Care

What’s the real story with health insurance rates in Maine?

Today’s Maine Wire story on the impact of last year’s health insurance law passed by the Maine legislature paints a too-good-to-be-true picture about declining health insurance rates […]

Garrett Martin

Posted May 16, 2012

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An Open Letter to Governor LePage

Time to Get Serious About Solving Maine’s Budget Crisis

Eliminating the State Income Tax Would Be Bad for Maine. Here’s Why.

5 Ways to Solve Maine’s Budget Crisis and Prevent Property Tax Increases

8 Points about the “Gang of 11” Tax Plan

Two Steps toward Tax Fairness

Two different proposals, but only one is right for Maine

Get the Facts on How Revenue Sharing Cuts Are Affecting Your Town

What New Census Data Say About Maine’s Economy

What’s the real story with health insurance rates in Maine?