The Press Herald’s Feb. 5 editorial, “Our View: Push for tax cuts ignores different choices” (Web page D2), is strictly proper. With a state income surplus of $1 billion or so, that is the second to lastly carry to scale the confirmed packages and insurance policies that we all know can profit all Mainers.
Gov. Mills has proposed a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to strengthen the state’s bodily infrastructure: bridges, roads, ports, state parks, waste remedy and extra. Glorious! Now she and the Legislature ought to commit comparable funding, sure, a whole lot of hundreds of thousands, for Maine’s human infrastructure: schooling, job coaching, youngster safety, well being, psychological well being, drug and alcohol remedy, take care of the aged, youngster care, paid depart and extra alternatives for the disabled.
Nothing is extra highly effective than human minds – minds that may clear up our social ills. Creating these minds requires sturdy households and communities. Whereas state and native public businesses and nonprofit organizations can ship high quality providers, they’ll’t presumably, on their very own, elevate the cash wanted to succeed.
The state’s social issues are properly documented, and curbing them would make Maine a good higher place to reside. I recommend that the assorted statewide social organizations, as quickly as potential, come and work collectively to assemble a human infrastructure funds based mostly on their documented wants. I imagine that Gov. Mills and lawmakers could be aware of such an funding. And I imagine that Maine residents would help such a long-term funding in their very own and their households’ well-being.
Michael Petit
Portland
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