[Due 5/14/2025] Maine - LD 1818 - Limit Spending w/o Voter Approval

Published on 13 May 2025 at 12:27

Background

The Committee on Taxation will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM at
📍 State House, Room 127, Augusta, to discuss LD 1818 “RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Limit Taxes, Spending or Debt Without Approval by the Voters."

If you want to read LD 1818, click here: https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?PID=1456&snum=132&paper=&paperld=l&ld=1818


In lieu of personally testifying on these bills, you may testify via Zoom, or by online testimony using the following link: https://www.mainelegislature.org/testimony/. Do this prior to the public hearing.  

See below for EVERYTHING you're going to need to get this done, including testimony! 

🔹 Steps to submit testimony online:
1️⃣ Click: "Public Hearing".
2️⃣ Choose a committee: "Taxation" - using the drop-down menu.
3️⃣ Choose date: May 14, 2025, 1:30 PM - using the drop-down menu.
4️⃣ Click: LD 1818
5️⃣ Enter your testimony in  the box (or click the checkbox if you want to testify via Zoom).
6️⃣ Complete your contact information.
7️⃣ Click: "I'm not a robot"
8️⃣ Click: "Submit/Register".

You can find a video tutorial on 'Submitting Testimony in Maine" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYnhN4ZlpoQ

 

Action Time-Window

⚠️ Please consider taking action by May 13, 2025 to ensure your testimony is received ahead of the hearing

Template

The below is a community member's testimony.  Feel free to use it, something of your own (recommended), or something as simple as as  "I support LD 1818, and "it ought to pass."  To get other wording ideas, as online testimony is submitted for this bill, you can see it here: https://legislature.maine.gov/ctl/TAX/05-14-2025?panel=3&time=0&sortdir=0&sortby=2 after clicking on the bill number.

I support LD 1818 “RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Limit Taxes, Spending or Debt Without Approval by the Voters.”

According to a Wallethub study, we Mainers bear the fourth highest total tax burden in America.  Based on their calculations, Mainers bear a 10.64 percent overall tax burden, annually paying 4.4 percent of their income in property taxes, 3.02 percent in income taxes, and 3.48 percent in sales and excise taxes.

We need relief! 

I support LD 1818 and it “ought to pass.”

Credit for the above goes to our community member Danny (@DannyEmerson61) from the South Berwick Republican Committee (@BerwickSouth).

Disclaimer

A community member has shared this personal template for those who wish to express their views on the bill(s) mentioned above. This template is not an official PTP position, and using it is entirely up to you. Pine Tree Patriots encourages civic participation but does not endorse or support specific actions or policies. Please remember this is an individual initiative.

 

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