Maine’s business lobby has mixed reactions legislative session

Punted lawmakers about tax reform in the last meeting, but spending measures constipation of the “brain drain” to keep the young people of Maine.

They are two outstanding events in what has been a mixed season for the legislative business of the Commonwealth, according to groups represented.

“It was a bad meeting,” said Chris Hall, Executive Vice President of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, recently completed the legislature.

“The worst thing was the loss of opportunity that we have seen. It was so frustrating to close - close - a package of tax reforms, which have several objectives.”

“To see all slip away was just really frustrating,” he said. “We thought we were pretty close to agreement would have been bipartie, (mean) real tax relief for the people of Maine.

Hall said that if the state does not have a clean room reform of the taxation of the proposal, she worked in several existing plans together.

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