‘Marriage penalty’ debate takes center-stage in Maine home care fight

Garrett Martin, the executive director of the Maine Center for Economic Policy, a progressive group that has taken no position on the referendum, said the LePage administration’s report “continues to perpetuate a flawed assumption about how the tax will apply to married couples” and that the law’s intent is not to hit married couples twice. To him, that makes the report “flawed” and he said it “should be ignored.”

Click here to read the full story, posted August 17 in the Bangor Daily News.