2021 will bring another Maine budget fight on taxes and spending

Progressive groups including the Maine Center for Economic Policy are renewing an advocacy push to raise taxes on high earners in the state as a way to avoid cuts. Melanie Sachs, a Democrat running for the House in Freeport, said “everything should be on the table in these times,” though there is aversion to that idea in rural areas.

Click here to read the full story, first published October 13, 2020, in the Bangor Daily News.