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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

The Annotated Jobs For Me Bill

TWEET THIS !  http://goo.gl/pbcwIO   This is Part Three of Series Part One    We Can Spend Your Money Because We Know What's Good For You ! Part Two   25% for You- 75% for Maine State Inc in Maine's Put ME to Work Bill Click to Download Mikkel Clair Nissen's Audio Book describing how manipulism has created an oppressive collectist culture in Denmark, and which is now being used in Maine which is well on the path to becoming a similar collectivist society " Any benefits accruing to private individuals or associations, as a result of the activities of the authority, are deemed by the Legislature to be incidental to the public purposes to be achieved by the implementation of this chapter." The transformation of Maine's political philosophy from individualism to collectivism (Marxism) as found in the unconstitutional charter by special act of legislation of the FAME corporation Annotating Jobs for ME   2 .    Job training programs; cr

25% for You- 75% for Maine State INC in Maine's Put ME to Work Bill

Tweet This   http://goo.gl/3Jlh3a Link to Part One  We Can Spend Your Money Because We Know What's Good For You ! As I set out to write the second half of the blog post I started yesterday, I am searching for the actual Put ME to work legislation. I came upon Speaker of the House Mark Eve's promotional editorial in the Portland Press Herald , and found that never once is there a link to the actual bill, or even LD number mentioned. Searching"Put ME to work" produces a video for a song. The same holds true for the article on the bill for the WBAI website I can no longer get into the article by Steve Mistler that I linked to yesterday with the Portland Press Herald telling me that I have reached my limit of free articles for the month, although I have never seen that applied to articles which one has already read before and I was on the page long enough to try to click on what appeared to be a link which was dead. Now it does not even appear to be a link