DC: Maine lawmakers will vote on a budget plan Friday that includes a tax hike to pay for increased education funding, and the result of the vote will determine whether the government shuts down.
The two-year $7.1 million plan introduced Wednesday includes a 1.5 percent increase in the state’s lodging tax to pay for a $162 million increase in education funding. The plan also repeals a 3 percent additional tax on Maine residents making over $200,000 annually.
Maine Governor Paul LePage has threatened to enact a government shut down in response to any tax increase. more
Maine’s a blue collar Conservative state that, like the West Coast states, has been over-run by big city Leftists fleeing their own fouled nests in NYC/Boston/Philly.
They move to Maine, drive prices up insanely, bitch and complain, sneer at the “local yokels”, act like the Noo Yawk a**holes they are, and immediately demand the same ruined Leftist policies they are fleeing.
Maine just doesn’t have the net income to support becoming a massive welfare state to please carpetbagger Manhattanites.
Good for their Governor for saying so.
Rufus,
And worse, then they come south and drag their liberal baggage with them.
Well! That’ll teach ME not to vacation in Maine!
The Over-Taxed Payers approve!
It’s high time to draw a line somewhere!
The economy is coming back, there are jobs, let the LoFoz start supporting themselves!
When I think of Maine politics I think of olympia snowe and susan collins. I know o.s. is gone, but any state that would elect her … susan collins ought to be organizing the book of the month meeting down at the local church.
Not very impressive, Mainers
My current state of VA also is horrible. I guess we have a lot of horrible US Senators and this is why Congress is so useless and has numbers reaching those of wolf blitzer.
Suuuure….make the out-of-staters pay for the local education. Way to kill the tourist industry, and make your economy worse.
But I did like the 3% cut on those earning over 200k.
do it for the children, the usual b.s., the tax will never go away
They had to cut the 3% surcharge tax. The newly arrived New Yorkers demanded it. Maine should enact a referendum now on tax increases going forward. Anytime a tax is set to increase it has to be on a referendum at state election time so that the parties will have to actually state an opinion on it and the people can get a chance to say no. You may want to limit political contributions (I’m not sure how) to limit the influence of just moved in liberals. How about five years of residence before you can contribute to a candidate.
“Education funding” means they need money to pay teachers retirement benefits.
I guess all those subhuman koranimal somali invaders aren’t good for the economy. Who could have predicted that?
What if they shut down the government and nobody noticed?
Rufus – well said …. again.
We have loved ones recently transplanted to Portland, ME. from the midwest. Makes it nice to be 3 1/2 hrs. away but our observations are as follows: Portland is the Seattle of the upper east coast. Anything south of Bangor is a flatlander ….
We are so dumb, stupid and illiterate that we are letting ever increasing taxes, levy’s, fees, and impost’s used to fund education bankrupt us into oblivion!
We get old hippies from NJ, NY, Mass and even California moving here and immediately running for city and town councils and belittling the real locals. Portland and So. Portland, (where I live) are trying to out crazy each other.
So frustrating.