Latest Budget Deal modestly improves Maine’s tax system progressivity, future revenue adequacy less certain

Today, state legislators released details of a budget deal that, if passed, would avoid a state government shutdown. The deal includes significant changes to Maine’s tax code. […]

Garrett Martin

Posted June 16, 2015

Tags Budget, Revenue, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

The one question Republican legislators need to answer

Last Friday legislative Republicans released their tax plan for the coming two-year budget cycle. In reference to the Republican plan, Maine people deserve an answer to one […]

Garrett Martin

Posted May 22, 2015

Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Where tax fairness is concerned, the legislative Republicans' tax plan is the worst of all

Republican legislators released their plan for overhauling Maine’s tax system last week. Yesterday MECEP posted a chart comparing the distributional impacts of the Republican and Democratic plans. The […]

Garrett Martin

Posted May 19, 2015

Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Everything you need to know about the Democratic and Republican tax plans in one chart

Last week Republican legislators released their proposal for overhauling Maine’s tax system. The plan includes income and corporate tax cuts, and eliminates the estate tax, all disproportionately […]

Garrett Martin

Posted May 18, 2015

Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

Republican Tax Plan Gives Huge Tax Breaks to the Wealthy While Raising Taxes for Working Mainers and Seniors

Legislative Republicans have released a tax plan that is a bad deal for working Mainers and seniors living on fixed incomes. Based on preliminary analysis the Maine […]

Garrett Martin

Posted May 15, 2015

Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

Eliminating Maine’s income tax: A boon to wealthy Mainers, will hurt everyone else

Two weeks ago Governor LePage notified lawmakers of his intention to amend Maine’s constitution to eliminate the state’s income tax by 2020. This may mean the governor […]

Garrett Martin

Posted May 4, 2015

Tags Economy, Income Tax, Property Tax, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

Maine Capital Investment Credit: A Bogus "Bonus" Maine Can't Afford

Imagine getting an unexpected bonus at the end of the year. It’s a nice windfall that we’d all appreciate. Would you feel differently if that bonus came […]

Garrett Martin

Posted January 29, 2015

Tags Economy, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Maine’s Economy

Maine Jobs Recovery Continues to Trail the Nation and New England

Beyond the good news, bad news stories of businesses expanding or shuttering are broader trends that affirm a critical challenge that too many Maine families are facing: […]

Garrett Martin

Posted December 19, 2014

Tags Economy, Jobs, Unemployment

Jobs and Income

Maine's Jobs Recovery Still Weak

Today’s jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) doesn’t give us much new information. Maine’s unemployment rate is about the same as the national […]

Garrett Martin

Posted November 21, 2014

Tags Employment, Jobs

Education

Education Funding Falters in Maine, Has Serious Repercussions

Maine cuts to school funding since the start of the recession are among the largest in the nation, and the deepest in New England, according to a […]

Garrett Martin

Posted October 16, 2014

Tags Education, K-12 Education

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Latest Budget Deal modestly improves Maine’s tax system progressivity, future revenue adequacy less certain

The one question Republican legislators need to answer

Where tax fairness is concerned, the legislative Republicans' tax plan is the worst of all

Everything you need to know about the Democratic and Republican tax plans in one chart

Republican Tax Plan Gives Huge Tax Breaks to the Wealthy While Raising Taxes for Working Mainers and Seniors

Eliminating Maine’s income tax: A boon to wealthy Mainers, will hurt everyone else

Maine Capital Investment Credit: A Bogus "Bonus" Maine Can't Afford

Maine Jobs Recovery Continues to Trail the Nation and New England

Maine's Jobs Recovery Still Weak

Education Funding Falters in Maine, Has Serious Repercussions