Maine lawmakers are, again, attempting to raise taxes on the wealthy • Maine Morning Star

Maine lawmakers are, again, attempting to raise taxes on the wealthy • Maine Morning Star

Ryan Tipping, director of campaigns and strategy for the progressive Maine Center for Economic Policy, addresses Mainers gathered in Augusta calling for taxing the rich on April 15. (Emma Davis/ Maine Morning Star)Speaking on behalf of every client she’s represented over her 44 years advocating in the State House — poor families, people in need of health care, mental health services and food — long-time lobbyist Betsy Sweet recounted that each y…