Taxes and Budget

Maine Needs More Energy Efficiency Investment, Not Less

As Maine lawmakers consider two major pieces of energy legislation in the coming weeks, energy efficiency investments should be their number one priority. Maine should invest more […]

Joel Johnson

Posted April 29, 2013

Tags Budget

Testimony at Hearing on LD 1227, An Act to Promote Tourism and Economic Development

We have a dilemma in Maine. We want good schools, good roads, safe communities, and opportunities to achieve a better life. Unfortunately, our current tax system is […]

MECEP

Posted April 26, 2013

Tags Property Tax, Revenue, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Some Proposals to Raise New Revenue From High-Income Earners

Today, the Legislature’s taxation committee heard public testimony on several tax bills that would help balance the state’s budget without raising taxes on low- and middle-income families. […]

Joel Johnson

Posted April 23, 2013

Tags Revenue, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Testimony at Hearing on LDs 1124, 834, 1256, and 1113

We have a dilemma in Maine. We want good schools, good roads, safe communities, and opportunities to achieve a better life. Unfortunately, our current tax system is […]

MECEP

Posted April 23, 2013

Tags Revenue, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Income Tax Cuts for the Rich Are a Recipe for Fewer Jobs and Slower Economic Growth

Legislators are currently considering Governor LePage’s proposed biennial budget that would saddle low- and middle-income Maine families with the tab for a two-year budget gap that’s $433 […]

Joel Johnson

Posted April 4, 2013

Tags Income Tax, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, 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

Testimony at Hearing on LR 1046: An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations (Afternoon) for the Expenditures of State Government, General Fund and Other Funds, and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2014 and June 30, 2015

The recession that began in December of 2007 has a lot to do with how we got to the budget you have before you. When the economy […]

MECEP

Posted March 13, 2013

Tags Budget

Taxes and Budget

Testimony at Hearing on LR 1046: An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations (Morning) for the Expenditures of State Government, General Fund and Other Funds, and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2014 and June 30, 2015

I’m here today to testify against Parts Q and T in the Governor’s biennial budget proposal. Part Q By suspending income tax bracket indexing for two years, […]

MECEP

Posted March 13, 2013

Tags Budget

Taxes and Budget

Stop Tax Increases on Maine Working Families and the Middle Class

During the 125th Maine Legislature, Governor LePage insisted on more than $430 million in tax cuts that mostly benefit wealthy Mainers. He got his way. Wealthy Mainers […]

Joel Johnson

Posted March 11, 2013

Tags Budget, Tax Fairness, Taxes

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Maine Needs More Energy Efficiency Investment, Not Less

Testimony at Hearing on LD 1227, An Act to Promote Tourism and Economic Development

Some Proposals to Raise New Revenue From High-Income Earners

Testimony at Hearing on LDs 1124, 834, 1256, and 1113

Income Tax Cuts for the Rich Are a Recipe for Fewer Jobs and Slower Economic Growth

Two Steps toward Tax Fairness

Two different proposals, but only one is right for Maine

Stop Tax Increases on Maine Working Families and the Middle Class