Maine’s Personal Current Transfer Receipts in 2009
Between 2008 and 2009, Maine’s Personal Current Transfer Receipts (PCTR), which consists of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc., grew by $1.2 billion to $11 billion from $8.8 Billion. As shown […]
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In my previous blog, I highlighted a new study showing Maine’s pension crisis is worse than reported. In a follow-up study, Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh, examine various policy […]
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A recent editorial in the Portland Press Herald discusses the negative impact of a small provision in the recent so-called “jobs bill” that would have applied FICA taxes to dividends […]
Read More →Record Increase in Maine’s Personal Current Transfer Receipts
In my previous blog I hinted that Maine’s Personal Current Transfer Receipts (PCTR) were behind the large drop in the private sector share of personal income. Between 2008 and 2009, […]
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