Manufacturers, towns blast LePage budget
Two parts of Gov. Paul LePage's proposed $6.3 billion budget drew ire from manufacturers and municipal officials during the first hearings on the spending plan Wednesday.
The Bangor Daily News reported more than 100 signed up to testify on the budget, which proposes suspending both state revenue sharing with municipalities and any reimbursements connected with the state's Business Equipment Tax Reimbursement program.
Anthony Lyons, director of fiber supply and public affairs at Rumford's NewPage paper mill, was one of many who spoke strongly against the proposed suspension of both programs.
The paper reported that testimony also included pleas to avoid cuts to the state's circuit breaker program and the homestead tax exemption program. The first offers about 200,000 low-income homeowners and renters a property tax or rent refund of $1,600, and the homestead program exempts from taxation the first $10,000 of property value for homes owned for less than a year.
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