Pro-Minimum Wage Study Filled with Flaws
Recently, advocates of increasing Maine’s minimum wage published a study highlighting the alleged benefits of raising Maine’s minimum wage to $12 per hour. However, this study is riddled with inaccuracies […]
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Obama is Making Big Changes to Medicare
Beginning today, almost 800 hospitals across the country will be impacted by the Obama Administration’s change to how Medicare pays for some of the most common health care procedures. This […]
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Researchers Say Welfare Programs Harm Recipients
America’s $700 billion per year welfare system is actually doing more harm than good, and is hurting the very people it is intended to help. That’s the subject of a […]
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Maine Health Care Co-op to Increase Prices
Community Health Options (CHO) has decided to increase prices for patients and customers next year– the latest sign that this Obamacare health co-op is teetering on the brink of a […]
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Another One of Obamacare’s Failures
The signature “achievement” of Obama’s Presidency, Obamacare, was dealt yet another major blow last week by the realization that it likely lost billions more of our taxpayer dollars. In testimony […]
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This Version of Expanded Medicaid is Not Better
If you didn’t know better, you would think that certain legislators in Augusta suffer from short-term memory loss. Every session since the passage of Obamacare, Maine legislators have debated liberal […]
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A Bad Deal for Maine
On Monday, Gov. LePage is expected to veto the legislature’s $6.7 biennial state budget, and force lawmakers to either over-ride his veto or head back to the budget negotiating table. […]
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Maine Budget Details Released
Details on the latest state budget deal emerged on Tuesday morning, after Republican and Democratic legislative leaders reached a deal late Monday night to avoid a state government shutdown. “After […]
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Compromise Budget Contains $294 Million Spending Increase
According to the Office of Fiscal and Program Review, the budget deal backed by Senate Republicans and House Democrats would raise state spending by an astonishing $294 million over the […]
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North Carolina Tax Revenues Increase After Tax Cuts
State tax revenues in North Carolina have increased roughly 6% this year, despite the state having recently instituted several major tax cuts. The state budget office has reported that North […]
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