Tax and BudgetEach year, Maine leaders set priorities and make choices for allocating state and local revenues for education, health care, public assistance, economic development, public safety, roads and bridges, environmental protection, and other services important to Maine families, businesses, and communities. They also determine how to fund those revenues through taxes, fees, borrowing, and other sources. For 20 years, MECEP has provided exhaustive, timely, and respected analysis of Maine tax and budget policies to ensure that Maine invests its limited revenues wisely in ways that most benefit Maine working families, especially their economic security, health care needs, and education and job training and that encourage strong economic growth by addressing the needs of Maine businesses for skilled workers, promoting local markets, and investing in research and development. We also assess the fairness of Maine’s tax policies, work to eliminate ineffective, wasteful tax breaks, especially for large corporations, and assure greater progressivity of Maine’s revenues.