Leon Richard of Farmington, ME So long as spending exceeds all bounds of reason, taxes will continue to rise. If it's not found in taxes, the revenue will be found in the form of FEES.

Already seen how it works. Charge more, deliver less. Pocket the money or spend it on some give away program.

Used to be, a person could pick up a phone and call the licensing board. Used to be 30 dollars for a license, no charge to verify it. After all, you paid the license fee, verifying that you paid it and have a license I would think would be free.

Nope. Eighty bucks for the license now, every two years. Call the licensing board, and you first get some gibberish voice mail system, then a dummy in the basement at the statehouse, then the licensing board. And if you need your license verified, the one you paid 80 dollars for, it's going to cost you ten bucks.

Pay twice as much, talk to a machine and someone who doesn't know anything, before you can talk to someone who does, and pay money to verify what you already paid for.

Wait a minute. What am I complaining about? Sounds like great customer service to me.

Yeah, and forty acres and a cabin are sounding better and better all the time.report abuse

Kimber45ME of Randolph, ME Chromedome is right, as this lame duck administration is doing more harm than good for Mainers. How long before we can get a real administration in the Blaine house?report abuse

wingnut of Vassalboro, ME Big deal! Gov. meatball will only levy more "fees" to offset any savings there may be. What he really needs to do is give back the 27 million he stole from the state retirement system so those rates will drop. I didn't vote for the loser and I will NEVER vote dimocrat. I would sooner vote for Nixon if he returned!report abuse

chromedome of China, ME “Baldacci spokesman David Farmer said Tuesday that, as the governor works on the budget for the next two years, he's set a goal of being able to reduce the state's income tax rate of 8.5 percent”.

Who’s kidding who? The State raised fees on automobile registrations etc. for one. Clamps fines down on people who choose not to wear a seat belt along with other frivolous restrictions on our personal rights for two, all with fines that go into the general fund and then for obvious political reasons the Gov. suggests lowering the States outrageous income tax.

We have got to do something about this crooked self-serving government we imposed on ourselves in Maine.report abuse