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A Lttle Help From My Freinds !

Tweet This  http://goo.gl/csPTn3 Greetings to my freinds and supporters: I have written over three hundred blog posts mostly on the subject of researching Maine economic development statutes. In the process I have developed an in depth understanding of the history and interconnectedness of Maine's economic development policies. For some timeI have been thinking of writing a book on the subjects that I have explored in this blog . I would like to time the publication of such a book to have its most impact in the months leading up to the next election. I have been offered a 50% discount on a self publishing program if I take it by Monday June 29, 2015. The self publishing program will connect me with an online community for self publishing and help me with every phase from organizing my material into a book form to marketing. I found a crowdfunding site for journalism, It takes a day for project approval.  My Crowdfunder is now launced on Beacon- Here I The Live Li

Fixing The Blame For the New Markets Tax Credit

Tweet This   http://goo.gl/br7pv0 Beacon POD Cast June 12, 2015 – The New Markets scam Download file  | Duration: 31:54 | Size: 29.2M In this episode of the Beacon podcast, Maine People’s Alliance political director Ben Chin interviews  Joel Johnson , an economist for the Maine Center for Economic policy, and attempts to make the deliberately-complicated New Markets tax credit scam (through which out-of-state corporations have fleeced the Maine taxpayers of more than $30 million) a little more understandable. This Beacon POD Cast is presented by Mike Tipping, Bangor Daily News Journalist  and Director of the  Maine People's Alliance , who tells us in his introduction that Chin and Johnson are going to "dig a little deeper" into the New Markets Tax Credi t and repeats the ubiqutous media line that one of the reasons why the scam hasn't caused more public outrage and government action is because it is "so deliberately complicated". This line is th