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 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
Education Higher Education Equals Better-Paying Jobs We all know it. The surest path out of poverty is a good job with benefits. But to get one of these good-paying jobs, Mainers need more […] Jody Harris Posted March 25, 2013 Tags Budget, Children, Education, Incomes, Jobs
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 MECEP Thanks Senator King for Leadership on "Even-handed" Budget Proposal Augusta, Maine (Monday, March 18, 2013) Garrett Martin, Executive Director of the Maine Center for Economic Policy, today released the following statement as Maine’s congressional delegation begins […] Posted March 18, 2013 Tags Budget, Federal
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