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Letter to the editor: Will Sen. Collins support Medicare, or a giveaway to the rich?
Her vote on the final Republican tax bill will reveal whether her loyalty is to Maine residents or party politics.
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Letter to the editor: Republican tax plan a grab bag of ‘gifts’ that many don’t want
Here she goes again. Sen. Susan Collins is toying with us. Will she? Won’t she? While she awaits the fate of her amendments to the Senate tax bill in the reconciliation process, it’s clear to the rest of us that the big boys are playing her. In the meantime, perhaps she could explain how these […]
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Letter to the editor: Tax reform bill both a moral failure and delusional economics
The Republican tax cut plan aims to enrich corporations and super-wealthy Americans. There is no evidence that trickle-down economics works to boost lower-class or middle-class earnings. It did not work in 1981, with Ronald Reagan, or in 2001, with George W. Bush, or in 2012, with Sam Brownback (governor of Kansas). Middle-class wages did not […]