It’s not socialism, It's just neighbors helping neighbors

(Photo credit, The Maine Wire)

When he left office in 2019, Maine’s governor Paul LePage left behind a budget surplus of $28.6 million. All proper-thinking socialists in Maine and across the country, detested LePage because he kept vetoing as unaffordable his state’s Democrats’s spending wet dreams, so when was term-limited out, hosannahs were heard from Maine’s southern border to the terminus of the Tofu Line in Bar Harbor. A Democrat was installed in the Governor’s Mansion, her fellow looters were voted complete control of all three branches of government, and together they set to work. That has worked out exactly as planned, so that when the current governor departs in two years, LePage’s surplus will be merely an unpleasant memory from the past: Today, Maine Faces $949.2 Million Budget Shortfall for 2026-2027.

Maine’s constitution requires a balanced budget, each year. But not to worry, it can and will be made up by higher taxes, and certainly not with spending cuts: those are, as we all know, not spending, but “investments”.