Maine gov. calls for tax cut over ‘concern’ millionaires are facing extinction
In what alternate reality does this guy live in? It's the middle class that's facing extinction and with the exception of a lucky few they're losing money.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) this week called for a tax cut for the wealthy, citing a false claim that the number of millionaires had dropped by 80 percent in the state in the last 25 years.
In audio obtained by the Bangor Daily News‘ Mike Tipping, LePage explained to the Greater Portland chapter of the Informed Women’s Network in Falmouth why he had pushed for income and estate tax breaks, while backing cuts to education, health care and public assistance programs.
“Twenty-five years ago Maine had about 2,000 millionaires,” the governor said. “Maine has 400 now. New Hampshire at the time had about 500, right now they have 4,000. That’s the difference.”
That’s when you talk about prosperity and you talk about building an economy those are the things that you need to concern yourself with,” he added. “So, I am looking at taxation as a big issue.”
Tipping pointed out that even though IRS records only go back to 1997, it was clear that LePage’s numbers were “ludicrously wrong.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/18/maine-gov-calls-for-tax-cut-over-concern-millionaires-are-facing-extinction/
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Perhaps the good and generous middle class citizens of Maine can rise to the occasion and help replenish the coffers of these wretched millionaires who risk losing everything (under a billion $$$) if we the people don't act decisively. This thing in Maine could be just the tip of the iceberg. It's time to go national with an "upper crust" bake sale benefit!
