Posts tagged as "Taxes"
MECEP Urges Legislature to Expand and Simplify Maine’s Property Tax “Circuit Breaker”
Proposed bill will “provide meaningful property tax relief to more Mainers at a time when they most need it” From our friends at the Maine Center for Economic Policy: Augusta, Maine (Monday, April 11, 2011)— The Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) today urged the members of the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Taxation to [...]
A Round-Up of Great Editorials/Columns/Opinion Pieces on the Maine Budget
Maine Voices: Cutting substance abuse prevention and treatment will only make things worse By Steve Rowe, Published in the Portland Press Herald “PORTLAND – The Fund for a Healthy Maine was established to ensure that annual receipts from the multistate tobacco settlement are used for health-related purposes. The governor’s proposed budget contains some troubling cuts [...]
“Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society”
As citizens we are all benefit from public programs and services. We’ve decided that public safety, education, and transportation play an important role in our prosperity. Sometimes, however, we fail to recognize that taxes are how we fund those services. Here’s an excerpt from a great blog post on Alliance for a Better Minnesota, written [...]