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New-Work-139 t1_is6y5ek wrote

Maine just saw a surplus of over $1B and is now significantly better situated than the average state in terms of its cash reserves. Working to secure comparatively larger amounts of federal funding is literally part of Mills's job description.

Oh, and Maine has one of the lowest inflation rates in the nation right now.

That's how it resembles fiscal responsibility.

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https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2022/8/state-inflation-tracker-july-2022

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2022/05/10/budget-surpluses-push-states-financial-reserves-to-all-time-highs

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06_tundra_4x4 t1_is715hr wrote

Who pays for the 1B? The American Taxpayer. Perhaps if the feds and the state hadn’t shut down the economy, they wouldn’t need to pump billions of tax money (that we don’t really even have) into “COVID relief”.

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New-Work-139 t1_is71evm wrote

I’m sorry are you actually trying to blame a state governor for federal monetary policy? Do you even understand how the US political system works…?

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raynedanser t1_is781j9 wrote

>hadn’t shut down the economy

Again. DEADLY GLOBAL PANDEMIC. Good grief.

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Super_Ad_2578 t1_is85wwi wrote

Were you born last night or did you sustain a concussion? All of these nonsense takes seem to raise those possibilities.

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