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title: "It would be great if she follows through.  I suspect she got the idea…"
date: 2025-02-25
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# It would be great if she follows through.  I suspect she got the idea…

*February 25, 2025 · Facebook*

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It would be great if she follows through. I suspect she got the idea from former Maine senator Eric Brakey, current executive director of the Free State Project.\
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Brakey proposed a bill (LR 1747, \"An Act to Protect Maine Taxpayers from Unconstitutional Federal Expenditures\") that would establish a procedure for the state to withhold payment for federal expenditures that are determined by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to be in violation of the United States Constitution.\
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1. Either the Maine House or Senate could request the Supreme Judicial Court to determine whether a federal expenditure is not authorized by the U.S. Constitution.\
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2. If the court determines an expenditure is unconstitutional, the Legislature may require employers to pay federal withholding taxes for their employees to Maine Revenue Services (MRS) instead of the IRS.\
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3. The MRS would then determine the amount of unconstitutional expenditure borne by Maine residents and set off that amount from the federal withholding taxes.\
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4. The withheld funds would be transferred to a segregated account and used either to make up for shortages in federal funding due to the state or to provide refunds to Maine taxpayers proportional to their federal tax payments
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