Big Labor Exempt Under Gang’s Cut-and-Paste Tax Reform
AUGUSTA – Top lawmakers on the so-called Gang of Eleven said Friday during a work session of the Legislature’s Taxation Committee that services provided by labor unions will be exempt under their proposed expansion of Maine’s tax code. The revelation came about after Sen. Doug Thomas (R-Somerset), the…
Top Democrat M.I.A. as Eves-Alfond take hospital debt hostage
AUGUSTA – Maine Democrats, led by Senate President Justin L. Alfond (D-Portland) and House Speaker Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick) announced Thursday that the Veterans and Legal Affairs (VLA) Committee would combine Gov. Paul R. LePage’s hospital repayment bill with a separate proposal to expand Medicaid. “Later…
HHS votes to repeal 2-year limit on MaineCare coverage for methadone
AUGUSTA – The Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee voted Wednesday against limiting Medicaid coverage of methadone and suboxone treatments, and in favor of repealing the two-year limit on reimbursement for the controversial opiate addiction treatment drugs. Members of the HHS Committee voted mostly along party lines…
Frary: Looking to the 2014 gubernatorial election
“Stop Paul LePage’s Agenda! Governor Paul LePage’s extreme policies have hurt Mainers. During his term as Governor, Paul LePage increased property…
Sen. Collins: IRS’s abuses part of pattern in Obama administration
By U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may be the most powerful, and feared, federal agency in…
M.D. Harmon: The Denier-in-Chief
“That the power to tax involves the power to destroy (is) not to be denied.” – Justice John Marshall, in McCulloch…
Op-Ed: Life, Liberty and the Gang of Eleven
Here, I’d like to discuss the so-called Gang of Eleven’s LD 1496, designated “An Act to Modernize and Simplify the Tax…
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