The Portland Press Herald: LePage, Republicans Shift Tactics on Eliminating Maine’s Income Tax

Democrats are claiming that their plan is geared more toward middle-income Mainers. An analysis by the Maine Center for Economic Policy, a left-leaning policy group, and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, found that the Democratic plan would reduce taxes for the bottom 95 percent of Maine taxpayers. It also would reduce taxes more than the governor’s plan, on average, for the bottom 80 percent of Maine families.

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