The Medical Freedom Channel

“New taxes to support Dirigo Care, the Maine state government’s attempt at providing ‘universal’ healthcare, have so angered Maine residents that a coalition dedicated to repealing the tax increases was able to collect nearly twice as many signatures as required to put a repeal referendum on the state’s ballot this November. Dirigo Care is being funded by newly imposed taxes on health insurance claims, as well as on goods such as beer, soda, wine and tobacco. ‘Voters were assured Dirigo would never require an increase in taxes,’ said Tarren Bragdon, CEO of the Maine Heritage Policy Center. ‘Those promises were repeatedly broken.’” (08/27/08)