Taxes and Budget Voter ID is a Bad Investment for Maine Recently, Maine has once again received unwelcome national media attention about unfounded charges of fraud in our exemplary voting system. In the 125th Legislature, similar charges led […] Christina Reinhard Posted November 20, 2012 Tags Budget
Taxes and Budget Maine Voter ID: At What Price? The Cost to Implement a Voter ID Law in Maine In 2011, legislators considered a bill requiring all Maine voters to present photo identification before they are allowed to vote. The legislature subsequently amended the bill to […] Jody Harris Posted November 19, 2012 Tags Budget
Taxes and Budget Get the Facts on How Revenue Sharing Cuts Are Affecting Your Town Earlier this week, I wrote a letter to the editor of my local newspaper (included below). In doing research for the letter, I came across a spreadsheet produced by […] Garrett Martin Posted October 25, 2012 Tags Budget, Local, Municipal Revenue Sharing
Taxes and Budget State government’s ability to respond to future needs is diminished As part of this year’s state budget cuts, the Governor just may have cut off his nose to spite his face. On July 1, the State Planning […] Jody Harris Posted June 11, 2012 Tags Budget
Taxes and Budget MECEP Statement on the Failure to Override the R&D Bond Issue Veto Augusta, Maine (Thursday, May 31, 2012) Garrett Martin, Executive Director of the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) issued the following statement today in response to the […] Posted May 31, 2012 Tags Budget
Taxes and Budget US House Continues To Fail Americans in Need On May 10th, the US House of Representatives passed the inappropriately named Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act, which would replace defense spending cuts mandated by last summer’s debt […] Joel Johnson Posted May 30, 2012 Tags Budget, Children, Federal, Food Insecurity, SNAP
Taxes and Budget Half of Fiscal Responsibility is About Revenues Maine’s 125th Legislature and the LePage administration have talked a lot about fiscal responsibility, but have their actions supported their rhetoric? House Speaker Robert Nutting called the […] Joel Johnson Posted May 21, 2012 Tags Budget, Revenue
Jobs and Income US House Votes to Eliminate Major Source of Economic and Demographic Data The American Community Survey is the only source of objective, consistent, and comprehensive information about the nation’s social, economic, and demographic characteristics down to the neighborhood level. […] Joel Johnson Posted May 18, 2012 Tags Budget, Economy, Federal
Taxes and Budget Statement: LD 849 Threatens Maine’s Good Credit LD 849 puts Maine’s good credit at risk, according to the major credit rating agencies- Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investor Services and Standard & Poor’s. Rating agencies warned us, in 2011, when […] MECEP Posted May 8, 2012 Tags Budget, Revenue
Taxes and Budget Recessions are Budget Busters It’s been almost three years since the Great Recession officially ended, but the recovery has been slow to materialize. There are still 50,000 people in Maine who […] Joel Johnson Posted April 13, 2012 Tags Budget