After failing to secure a $120 million MaineCare bailout package at the State house last week, the Democrat-controlled State Legislature is slated to vote on the first part of a nearly $12 billion budget that contains spending for fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027.
As admitted last week by Sen. Mark Lawrence (D-York), the Democratic strategy appears to be to advance the a partisan spending package in two parts, with roughly $11.3 billion of spending up for a vote on Thursday.
If subsequent spending bills added up to the approximate amount Gov. Janet Mills’ original $11.6 billion proposal, then Democratic lawmakers would likely have to restore several of the tax increases and new taxes that the governor proposed in her budget.
The latest amendment from Democrats includes an increased tax on hospitals, but it does not include the controversial tax increases on tobacco, adult-use marijuana, and entertainment streaming services Mills first proposed.
The legislative vehicle for the spending bill, LD 609 – Committee Amendment A, emerged from the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee on Tuesday afternoon after a strictly partisan vote.
That legislation will be ready to move as soon as the House of Representatives is in session on Thursday at 10:00am.
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Democrats will get their just rewards in November 2026.
Out on the street .
Rewards? probably not. Anybody with money and brains will be gone by then only the drug addicts, illegals, pols and the takers will be left. Half a billion deficit now, 2 or 3 times that next year. After washington shuts off the $ due to the mills shit show the people left will eat themselves into oblivion and be remembered by future generations as retarded morons.
With fatty Mattie running the Senate, and inFectedtoe as comrade in charge of house, we are all screwed.
I am not paying. Join the “I am taking party”
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Hard to believe! What the idiot dems have done and continue to do to this state! Drive working people and young people out of Maine. The only people left will be illegals, bums and layabouts, with foolish libs to pay for all of it!! C’mon man!
How much longer will it be before the democrats run out of OPM?
If you have MaineCare check your credit report. I found out they wait 5 years and just wipe all of my MainCare debt onto my credit report. No notice, just all of it on my credit report as unpaid delinquent debt. I call MaineCare fraud. Offering you fake healthcare is fraud. Thanks Despicable Maine…
MAINE: SECOND HIGHEST TAXED STATE IN THE UNITED STATES. Here’s a novel idea….LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS!!!
Talk about BS. This is just a way to see if the Rs are stupid enough to bite. The Ds can pass whatever they want & continue to ignore the 400+ towns & their Representatives, & pass a Majority budget w/o any Rs voting.
Time for Atlas to Shrug. Shall all of us working stiffs take a looong vacation?
Democrats spend taxpayer money without remorse and implement new taxes without regard to the impact that will have on our low income and fixed income population in the state. It is beyond time for the common man and woman to push back, protest, call and write to local representatives. This ridiculous tax and spend policy must not stand.
Only a Socialist Democrat in Augusta could think they can dig their way out of the hole they created by digging faster and deeper!
They know they’re getting voted out of power in 2026, so they intend to burn Maine to the ground before they’re ripped from power!
God help us if they succeed.
God have nercy on their souls when we start fighting back!
Keep burning us out shitterds…………
When will the Maine people stand and fight. We cannot survive this mentallity. The smart ones are leaving. Mills good luck taxing nobody. If we all stop working and shutoff the machine that keeps them going, maybe they will lose it and start eating themselves. Between them ruinning our cars with their forever chemicals and putting so much on our backs we cant go on, at somepoint something needs to give. Send the libtards packing please.
So we will be paying more taxes i see. Not enough Rs to change anything. The left wins this battle. Time to find a rex state. Tax burden killing us.