Maine Heritage offers little resistance.

Heritage review of LePage budget.

The Heritage report doesn't bother to mention that the Income Tax Sales Tax Reduction Credit represents a massive new welfare program, and in their examples of "effect" they use a cohabiting couple as really making out under this tax scheme.

Fund DHS!

Bruce votes to fund Amnesty.


Processing Amnesty requires funding.

LePage: Annual $100 Million Bond Debt for Roads

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Repeat after me: "Republicans have always been for bond debt."

Maine GOP Senators resisting higher taxes and spending

The Resistance begins.

Mason, in a statement, said, “Senate Republicans’ priorities this session are the same as those we campaigned on in 2014: ensuring Maine’s hardworking families are paying less in taxes and energy costs, and no longer seeing their hard-earned money being wasted by a bloated government.”
He added, “We are supportive of lowering, and eventually eliminating, the income tax, but the best way to achieve that goal is to reduce the size of government and encourage the growth of business.”

LePage: You Must Vote For More Spending and Taxes

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LePage demands spending be hiked.