What Maine could do to mitigate federal funding loss from GOP budget • Maine Morning Star

What Maine could do to mitigate federal funding loss from GOP budget • Maine Morning Star

Ryan Tipping, director of campaigns and strategy for the progressive Maine Center for Economic Policy, addresses Mainers gathered in Augusta to protest against tax cuts for the rich on April 15. (Emma Davis/ Maine Morning Star)As Maine faces strain from cuts under the federal budget signed into law last week, some are eyeing tax increases on the wealthy as a mitigation strategy. In a letter to Maine’s congressional delegation last week, Gov. Jan…