Taxes and Budget

Eye on Augusta: Legislature Passes Tax Breaks for 28,000 Businesses and 160,000 Unemployed Workers

Speaking in favor of the bill, Sarah Austin of the Maine Center for Economic Policy said that the measure would raise about $78 million in revenue each […]

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Posted March 16, 2021

Tags Budget, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Maine’s Economy

Confronting the End of Everything — Part Five

Amtrak is another tax-subsidized, mass-transit network. If you’ve ever spent time in Europe, you know how much better the heavily subsidized train systems are there. Subsidy is […]

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Posted October 29, 2019

Tags Inequality, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Eye on Augusta: Legislature Adjourns, Passes Solar Bills, Rejects Aid to Asylum Seekers

The Maine Legislature unanimously passed a bill to more than double the earned income tax credit and expand eligibility to 18- to 24-year-olds without children. In a […]

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Posted June 27, 2019

Tags EITC, Tax Fairness

Taxes and Budget

Eye on Augusta: Legislature Passes a Budget, Defeats Gun Control Bills, Pushes Forward Monhegan Wind Project & More

Progressives decried the budget for not funding several bills that passed both houses and are now languishing on the Appropriations table — such as LD 1689, which […]

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Posted June 20, 2019

Tags Budget, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness

Taxes and Budget

Eye on Augusta: EVs, Revenue Sharing, Expanding Abortion Access & More

“Well-maintained roads, good schools, robust public works, parks, and libraries help people and small businesses plant deep roots in the towns and cities they call home,” wrote […]

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Posted May 30, 2019

Tags Budget, Municipal Revenue Sharing

Education

Eye on Augusta: Legislature Votes to Ban “Conversion Therapy,” Provide MaineCare Coverage for Abortions, Study the NECEC & More!

A 2012 U.S. Senate investigation found that for-profit colleges depend on taxpayer dollars for nearly all of their revenues, yet they overspend on advertising and CEO salaries. […]

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Posted May 16, 2019

Tags Higher Education, Student Debt

Taxes and Budget

Has Janet Mills Paralyzed Progressive Reform?

To many Democrats, most disturbing about Mills’ no-new-taxes pledge is that it leaves in place LePage’s income-tax cuts, which lowered the top rate on the rich from […]

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Posted March 7, 2019

Tags Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Mills Budget Provides More School Funding, Fails to Fully Fund Revenue Sharing & Keeps LePage’s Tax Cuts

The liberal-leaning Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) praised Mills for her support for Medicaid expansion, but criticized the proposal for failing to reverse LePage’s income tax […]

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Posted February 14, 2019

Tags Budget, Education, Revenue, Taxes

Education

Fallout of student loan debt felt in Midcoast

A recent survey about financial difficulties resulting from student debt found that in some categories, Midcoast residents were harder hit by the repercussions of education loans than […]

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Posted January 3, 2019

Tags Polling, Student Debt

Education, Jobs and Income

Conference addresses consumer protection

The dramatic impact of student loan debt was a primary concern of panelists at the conference. MECEP Associate Director Jody Harris said student loan debt in Maine […]

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Posted December 13, 2018

Tags Consumer Protection, Higher Education, Student Debt

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Eye on Augusta: Legislature Passes Tax Breaks for 28,000 Businesses and 160,000 Unemployed Workers

Confronting the End of Everything — Part Five

Eye on Augusta: Legislature Adjourns, Passes Solar Bills, Rejects Aid to Asylum Seekers

Eye on Augusta: Legislature Passes a Budget, Defeats Gun Control Bills, Pushes Forward Monhegan Wind Project & More

Eye on Augusta: EVs, Revenue Sharing, Expanding Abortion Access & More

Eye on Augusta: Legislature Votes to Ban “Conversion Therapy,” Provide MaineCare Coverage for Abortions, Study the NECEC & More!

Has Janet Mills Paralyzed Progressive Reform?

Mills Budget Provides More School Funding, Fails to Fully Fund Revenue Sharing & Keeps LePage’s Tax Cuts

Fallout of student loan debt felt in Midcoast

Conference addresses consumer protection