LePage, Moody and Poliquin gather at Republican forum to boost Trump, bash Mills

But Mario Moretto, a spokesman for the left-leaning Maine Center for Economic Policy, disputed the Republican characterization of the impact of the Trump tax cuts.

“The Trump tax cuts were a blunt instrument to deliver hundreds of billions of dollars to the wealthiest households and large, profitable corporations. None of supporters’ rosy economic predictions have come true: The tax cuts have not paid for themselves. Promised raises and bonuses for workers never materialized while stock buybacks soared,” Moretto said in an email.

Click here to read the full article, first posted on August 22, 2019, in the Portland Press Herald.