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What’s Happening: Maine
State budget cut proposals are gutting vital services and shortchanging essential workers — not from lack of funds, but from rigged policies favoring the rich. Since 2011, Maine has bled hundreds of millions to tax breaks for the wealthy. Now, working families face soaring costs, while the rich skate free. We need a fair tax system where millionaires pitch in — so Maine working families and communities get what they truly deserve.
What You Can Do
Tell your state lawmakers to support these bills:
- LD 1089 – a tax on income over $1 million to support public education
- LD 1047 – a tax on capital gains over $250,000
- LD 1082 – increases the real estate transfer tax on home sales over $1 million
What’s Happening: Federal
Trump, Musk, and Congressional Republicans are trying to force through huge tax breaks for billionaires and corporations at the expense of workers and families. Their budget resolution attacks Medicaid, food assistance, and students, while the richest man in the world guts federal agencies from the Department of Education to the VA to the EPA.
If you make under $14,000, the Republican budget will cost you $1,125 a year. If you make under $38,000, it will cost you $430. But if you make more than $650,000 a year, you’ll get handed $43,500.
Renewing the Trump tax plan will cost more than $5 TRILLION. 70% of the benefits are set to go to the richest 5% of Americans.
Republicans will either blow a giant hole in the deficit or go after our earned benefits to pay for it. This isn’t just a scam — it’s a heist.
What You Can Do
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