Maine’s Population Shrinking and Aging
Recently the U.S. Census Bureau released their updated intercensal state population estimates by age and race. These new estimates account for the new population counts as determined by the 2010 population census. […]
Read More →Maine Ranks Last in “Best and Worst States for Retirement 2011”
According to a new ranking by MoneyRates.com, “Best and Worst States for Retirement 2011,” Maine comes in dead last. For New England as a whole, only New Hampshire has a […]
Read More →Does Maine Need More Debt?
According to the folks at the Maine Center for Economic Policy the answer is “yes” Maine needs more debt (pdf). They argue that new bonds would create new jobs and that […]
Read More →Maine’s Private Sector . . . 2nd Quarter, 2011
Last week the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released new personal income data for the second quarter of 2011 by state (pdf) and revisions for the past couple of […]
Read More →Taxes Matter 24: Sales Tax Zappers are a Symptom of a Larger Problem
Today the Kennebec Journal has a story about the rise of sales tax zapper computer programs that enable businesses to under-report their taxable sales and lower their sales tax bill. Of course, […]
Read More →Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index – Maine Ranks #30
The Competitive Enterprise Institute recently released a fascinating index called the “Big Labor versus Taxpayers Index.” The institute uses 1,150 data points to rank the states based on whether they […]
Read More →The State of Maine’s Economy
Recently, I was appointed to the Maine Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission whose job it is to project the future state of Maine’s economy. The CEFC projection is then used to […]
Read More →Maine is Only the 25th Happiest State in the Country
A recent Gallup survey found that Maine is only the 25th happiest state in the country and only the 5th happiest in New England. Not surprisingly, New Hampshire tops the […]
Read More →Taxes Matter 23: Tax Rates and Migration
A new study by Antony Davies and John Pulito, from the Mercatus Center, find that tax rates do influence the migration of people across state and county lines (pdf). They found that: […]
Read More →Maine’s High Tax Burden on Businesses
Much was made of the recent Ernst & Young/Council on State Taxation (COST) study showing Maine’s tax code pertaining to C-corporations was the best in the country. However, as I […]
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