Stephen Bowen

By Stephen Bowen

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• TABOR myths and facts

  By Stephen Bowen - Oct 24
  - The campaign against the Question 4 Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, initiative is well under way, and according to recently released documents ...
  

• What will Maine voters choose?

  By Stephen Bowen - Oct 10
  - Maine voters get to play lawmaker on Election Day this year, with the November ballot giving them the opportunity to decide state policy on ...
  

• Tax reform package no panacea

  By Stephen Bowen - Sep 19
  - That Maine citizens reportedly collected more than 60,000 signatures in order to force a public referendum on the LD 1495 tax package passed by ...
  

• Among the freedom fighters

  By Stephen Bowen - Aug 29
  - The two weeks I recently spent in Washington, D.C. was the longest period of time I have ever been away from my wife and kids, but the pain of ...
  

• Out of gas

  By Stephen Bowen - Aug 08
  - The rise and astoundingly quick fall of the federal government’s Cash for Clunkers program should remind all Americans why government run health ...
  

• The road to serfdom

  By Steve Bowen - Jul 04
  - The ongoing debate over the proper approach to reforming the nation’s health care system is of far more importance to lovers of liberty than at ...
  

• Government-run health care? No thanks

  By Stephen Bowen - Jun 12
  - Supporters of what has come to be called “single-payer” health care -- but what ought to be called “taxpayer-payer” health care -- have been out ...
  

• The Legislature’s war on government transparency

  By Stephen Bowen - May 08
  - With an economic downturn, a state budget crisis and a flu pandemic going on, Mainers could probably be forgiven for missing the news that a ...
  

• Atlas is shrugging

  By Stephen Bowen - Apr 25
  - The economy may be in terrible shape, but sales are booming for a 1957 novel foretelling with surprising prescience the collapse of the nation’s ...
  

• Bankruptcy is the best course

  By Stephen Bowen - Apr 10
  - President Barack Obama’s recent meddling in the affairs of automakers General Motors and Chrysler is a troubling development. The president ...
  

• As Maine goes?

  By Stephen Bowen - Oct 17
  - In a recent speech before a packed house in South Portland, Wall Street Journal editorial writer John Fund suggested, to the surprise of many, ...
  

• State spending cut to the bone? Think again

  By Stephen Bowen - Sep 25
  - News from the Appropriations Committee room at the State House in Augusta, where Maine’s state budget is developed, has not been good. Legislators ...
  

• Time for TABOR

  By Stephen Bowen - Sep 08
  - Voters headed to the polls this November will find a crowded ballot awaiting them. There is a referendum question proposing to repeal the new gay ...
  

• Outrage, at last

  By Steve Bowen - Aug 15
  - Members of Congress recently headed back home for a long recess and, according to reports, have found angry constituents ready to greet them. It ...
  

• Maine’s experiences with government-run health care

  By Stephen Bowen - Jul 18
  - Mainers looking for some indication of how well the government will run the nation’s health care system, which it will if President Obama gets his ...
  

• The work of the Legislature

  By Stephen Bowen - Jun 20
  - To gauge the success of the legislative session that ended last week, it is necessary to establish just what it was the Legislature needed to do. ...
  

• The education president

  By Stephen Bowen - May 15
  - When asked during his campaign for president whether he had ever taken on the special interests in his own party, Barack Obama typically responded ...
  

• What went wrong?

  By Stephen Bowen - May 03
  - So, how did we get into the economic mess we’re in today? The conventional wisdom seems to be that there simply was not enough government ...
  

• Right vote cast on teacher pay

  By Stephen Bowen - Apr 17
  - Prospects for a meaningful reform of Maine’s schools improved considerably last week after the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Education ...
  

• Maine’s worst tax

  By Stephen Bowen - Apr 03
  - Maine voters have been promised tax relief for years. This November, they will have the chance to cut one of the most onerous and hated taxes in ...