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The Maine Heritage Policy Center, a conservative think tank, issued a report last week well-timed to start a debate on government spending. The report, coined the "Maine Piglet Book," tabulated around $2 billion in what the MHPC sees as wasteful pork.
Yet it's one thing to pick apart line items, slash a small program here, delay or cancel a capital project there. The Piglet book does that; it declares what it identifies as waste, nothing more. This doesn't acknowledge how structural reforms in service delivery could help, especially in big government expenses, i.e. personnel costs.See the full content of this document
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College Bill Needs Second Look
Let's consider some compensation levels within components of state government. The Piglet book lays out the top 20 "departments" in state government and the amount p...
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