Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Features | Who pays for the tax cuts?

Features | Who pays for the tax cuts?:

"(Mary Lou Deyer) believes that if this cut gets through the Legislature, state government might be jeopardizing its compliance with a 1994 court order to place mentally handicapped people in the community with adequate supportive services. This 'consent-decree' community-care system replaced, in 1996, the abusive state Pineland Institution for mentally handicapped people in Pownal. The cuts total $28 million in both state and federal funds, she says. The feds match state money two to one.

Dyer has uncovered other cuts in Baldacci's budget. For example, one is to the education of preschool kids with disabilities, a $6.5-million savings to the state Department of Education. Then there is $644,000 saved by eliminating the DHHS's Committee on Transition, which helps disabled teenagers move from schools to jobs.

Ron Welch, executive director of the Maine Association of Mental Health Services, has a similar take on the Baldacci budget.

'Over the course of two years, with all the state money and the federal match included,' he says, 'there's a $78-million cut' to services for the mentally ill people whom his agencies help."

The rich folks are getting downright pissed off that us poor folks don't have the common decency to just die off so they don't have to pay for us anymore so they're just speeding up the process a little bit. God love em.

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