Every Republican candidate’s campaign highlights how each of them is going to cut waste and fraud from our existing government assistance programs.
Let’s look at the facts: Maine is a poor state with a low per-capita income. Our citizens work very hard to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads, and current data shows nearly 13% of Maine households were food insecure from 2022-2024, with nearly 40% of those households having little or no resources to cover expensive healthcare services.
The affluent candidates are just beating the Republican drum chant of fraud and they have no real connection to the men and women on the street who pay the taxes.
Bruce Samuels
Pittston
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