Tax Foundation Responds
Today the Tax Foundation also weighs in on the Portland Press Herald Op-Ed. Click here for their blog.
Read More →Misleading Tax Op-Ed
Today, an op-ed in the Portland Press Herald by Kay Rand suggests that the Tax Foundation’s annual state and local tax burden rankings is misleading and overstates Maine’s tax burden. […]
Read More →AARP Finds Religion
Last week, a New York Times story highlighted AARP’s plan to sell a new Medicare Advantage plan to those over 65 and a new individual insurance plan to those 50 […]
Read More →Wagon Pullers versus Wagon Riders
In my recent report on Maine’s personal income, I found that Maine’s private sector share of persona income had fallen to a new all-time low of 66.1 percent. From an […]
Read More →Who is Paying all the Taxes?
Today’s Wall Street Journal has yet another report about who is paying the taxes in the U.S. The story highlights a recent CBO report that finds: “Those who made more […]
Read More →The Promise of Public Charter Schools: Closing Maine’s Achievement Gap
Read the full report | Last summer, in the midst of high school graduation season, Education Week Magazine released the results of an extensive, nationwide study of high school graduation […]
Read More →Most Livable State
Morgan Quitno Press recently released its “Most Livable State” rankings. Winner, for the fourth year in a row, is our next door neighbor New Hampshire. Maine ranked 16th which is […]
Read More →2006 Cost of Living Update: 4th Quarter
Read the full report | The ACCRA Cost of Living Index© (ACCRA-COLI) is the country’s longest running cost of living index, published every quarter since 1968. Used widely by both […]
Read More →18 Million to be in HSAs by end of 2007
Information Strategies, Inc just released their projections for Health Saving Account growth for the year 2007. These projections show how popular these low-cost, comprehensive benefit health insurance plans are becoming […]
Read More →Part II: Child Medicaid Spending A Roadmap to Saving $128 Million in Maine Medicaid without Dropping Coverage for One Child.
Read the full report | In 2004, Maine had the second highest spending per child Medicaid beneficiary of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, spending 136 percent more […]
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