Thursday, January 05, 2012
"LePage: More Mainers receiving welfare than paying taxes"
It seems like the argument is that the numbers aren't exactly right when it should be how precarious the state's finances really are...
The A.P.'s Clarke Canfield has this story at BangorDailyNews.com:
"There are more Mainers receiving welfare benefits than there are income tax filers paying taxes, Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Saturday.
But Democrats said LePage’s numbers are deceptive and not entirely truthful.
In reiterating his call for the need to cut human services programs to save money, the governor said in his weekly radio address that Maine had 453,000 people receiving welfare benefits in 2010. At the same, he said, the state had only 445,000 tax filers who paid taxes."
