Policy Center Fellow Interviewed on Tax Breaks

A Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting story in the Portland Press Herald about Pine Tree Development Zones included comments from Lee Webb, a senior fellow at UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. Webb said the zones, which are state economic programs that gave tax breaks to encourage business, said he was tuned off to such programs while formerly running economic programs in New York state, because the taxpayer ultimately loses out.

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