Lawmakers Kill Bid to Abolish Maine's Income Tax and Require "Zero-Based Budgeting"

Farmworker minimum wage bill headed to Gov. Mills

Farmworkers, many of them immigrants, harvest strawberries in Oregon. (Photo by Oregon Department of Agriculture)Once again, the Maine Legislature is sending a bill to the governor’s desk that would give farmworkers the right to state minimum wage.  On Tuesday, the House of Representatives narrowly passed and then enacted — by a one-vote margin — LD 589, which mirrors a proposal Gov. Janet Mills put forward last session. The Senate enacted the m…

Lawmakers Kill Bid to Abolish Maine's Income Tax and Require "Zero-Based Budgeting"

Maine legislators have killed a bill that would have abolished the state’s income tax and required agencies to regularly engage in “zero-based budgeting.” Although the rejection of this bill was still divided primarily along partisan lines, there was a greater degree of crossover in both the House and the Senate than is typical for high-profile [...] The post Lawmakers Kill Bid to Abolish Maine’s Income Tax and Require “Zero-Based Budgeting” app…