Bangor Daily News: After initial relief, paying for GOP tax cuts could hit Mainers hard

But U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said she won’t. She and policy analyst Sarah Austin of the left-leaning Maine Center for Economic Policy said in a roundtable discussion in Portland on Monday that the bill will be paid for by forthcoming cuts to Medicare and Medicaid benefits used by many elderly and low-income residents and the Pell student-loan program for low- to middle-class Mainers.
Posted November 15, 2017
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Breaking: New Analysis Confirms Trump Tax Plan a Windfall for Wealthy, One in Seven Mainers Will Pay More

“This tax plan is bad for Maine,” said Sarah Austin, a policy analyst at the Maine Center for Economic Policy. “If enacted, these lopsided cuts will only serve to worsen the growing gap between the richest households and everyone else and will trigger deep cuts in this and future budgets to everything from medical research, to job training, to infrastructure and other investments that grow our economy.”
Posted October 4, 2017
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