The Mission
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Fed Up With Taxes is a coalition of Maine citizens, businesses and organizations who are tired of paying high taxes. The coalition is seeking to undo a recently enacted law increasing the tax on beer and wine AND adding new taxes on flavored water, sports drinks, colas, diet colas, juice drinks AND health insurance claims. Our coalition believes Maine people should decide for themselves if they are fed up with taxes. We have organized a People's Veto to give you that opportunity.
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Press Releases
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Ellsworth American Editorial Back in the spring, majority Democrats in the Maine Legislature, with little or no public discussion, pushed through legislation doubling the tax on beer and wine, creating a new tax on soft drinks and imposing a 1.8-percent surcharge on all claims paid by health insurrance companies and self-insured businesses. The estimated $75 million in revenue generated by those changes was earmarked to keep alive Dirigo Health, a subsidized insurance program that never has fulfilled expectations and should have been allowed to die a natural death |
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October 6, 2008
Contact: Todd Gabe, 581-3307; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO: Maine's new beverage taxes, at the heart of Question 1 on this November's ballot, will cost Maine businesses and households as much as $40.7 million annually in higher taxes on beer, wine and nonalcoholic beverages, according to new research by University of Maine economist Todd Gabe. |
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