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Gang of Eleven’s Tax Reform Plan is Wrong for Maine

Posted on May 9, 2013 by jsmoody
Posted in Home | Tagged Cross-Border Shopping, Gang of Eleven, Governor LePage, LD 1496, Tax Cuts, Tax Reform | Leave a reply

New Population Projections Paint Grim Demographic Picture

Posted on April 11, 2013 by jsmoody
Posted in Home | Tagged Demographic Winter, Governor's Office of Policy and Management, Maine Population Projection

Taxpayers React to Higher Taxes in 2013

Posted on April 4, 2013 by jsmoody
Posted in Home | Tagged Bureau of Economic Analysis, Capital Gains, Congressional Budget Office, Cross-Border Shopping, Federal Budget Deficit, Maine Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission, Michael Allen, Taxes Matter

A Tale of Two States

Posted on March 27, 2013 by jsmoody
Posted in Home | Tagged Bureau of Economic Analysis, Census Bureau, Maine Private Sector, New Hampshire Private Sector

Hiking Maine’s Minimum Wage Would Further Erode Business Climate

Posted on March 21, 2013 by jsmoody
Posted in Home | Tagged LD 611, Minimum Wage

Maine’s Demographic Winter by County

Posted on March 14, 2013 by jsmoody
Posted in Home | Tagged Demographic Winter, Net Natural Population Change, U.S. Census Bureau

Obamacare’s Siren Call to Expand MaineCare Must be Rejected

Posted on March 13, 2013 by jsmoody
Posted in Home | Tagged Food Stamps, MaineCare, Obamacare, TANF, The Maine Heritage Policy Center, Welfare

Maine’s Health Insurance Reform is Showing Positive Impact

Posted on March 1, 2013 by jsmoody
Posted in Home | Tagged Maine Bureau of Insurance, Maine Health Insurance Reform, Obamacare, PL90

Untying Uncle Sam’s Gordian Budget Knot

Posted on February 21, 2013 by jsmoody
Posted in Home | Tagged Congressional Budget Office, Discretionary Spending, Entitlement Reform, Federal Budget Deficit, Federal Interest Payments

Minnesota’s Proposed “Snowbird Tax”

Posted on February 13, 2013 by jsmoody
Posted in Home | Tagged Governor Dayton, Minnesota, snowbird, snowbird tax

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J. Scott Moody is CEO of The Maine Heritage Policy Center. Before joining MHPC as its chief economist in 2006, he worked as a public policy economist at The Heritage Foundation and the Tax Foundation.

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  • Taxpayers React to Higher Taxes in 2013
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