Union members, liberal activists voice religious objections to the LePage budget
AUGUSTA – Scripted chants filled the air Wednesday as activists from the Maine State Employees Association (MSEA) and the Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) arrived at the State House on school buses to voice religious objections to Gov. Paul LePage’s biennial budget. “Hey, hey, ho, ho, this budget’s got…
Maine Democrats vote to expand welfare program despite costs
AUGUSTA – In a late night session of the Maine House of Representatives, state lawmakers clung mostly to party lines in what some lawmakers called the biggest vote of the 126th Legislature. Voting 87-57, the House Democrats overcame bipartisan opposition to pass L.D. 1546, An Act to…
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…
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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