Today's Choice Life | Mar. 15th, 2010

Question 2: Motor Vehicle Excise Tax

Question 1: Citizen Initiative

An Act to Decrease the Automobile Excise Tax and Promote Energy

"Do you want to cut the rate of the municipal excise tax by an average of 55% on motor vehicles less than six years old and exempt hybrid and other alternative-energy and highly fuel-efficient motor vehicles from sales tax and three years of excise tax?"

The proponent of this citizen initiative is Roy W. Lenardson of Scarborough.

The following have voiced their support for this measure:

Maine Leads--MORE GREEN NOW

Maine Heritige Policy Center

Linda Higgins, Belgrade resident

The following have voiced their opposition to this measure:

Maine Council of Senior Citizens ARA

The League of Young Voters

Maine Affordable Housing Coalition

Maine Association of Mental Health Services

Family Crisis Services

Maine Center for Economic Policy

Engage Maine

Engage Maine Votes

American Council of Engineering Companies - Maine

Maine Better Transportation Association (MBTA)

Maine Children's Alliance

Maine Municipal Association

Maine Education Association

Maine Women's Lobby

Citizens Who Support Maine's Public Schools

Advocacy Initiative Network of Maine

AFSCME Council 93

Bangor Area Homeless Shelter

Child and Family Opportunities, Inc.

Disability Rights Center

Emergency Shelter Assessment Committee (ESAC)

Maine AFL-CIO

Maine Association of Nonprofits

Maine Coalition for Housing and Quality Services

Maine Library Association

Maine People's Alliance

Maine People's Resource Center

Maine Section ASCE

Maine Workforce Housing

MSEA-SEIU Local 1989

Natural Resources Council of Maine

Penquis

Pike Industries

Professional Firefighters of Maine

Region 3 Homeless Council

Shalom House, Inc.

Southern Maine Labor Council

State Homeless Council

Washington Hancock Community Agency

Western Maine Labor Council

Skowhegan

Brewer

Bangor

Anson

Portland

South Portland

Bar Harbor

Brewer

Saco

Belgrade

Etna

Farmington

Fayette

Machanic Falls

Norway

Oakland

Oakland

Turner

Winterport

Woolwich

Professional Fire Fighters of Maine

Amalgamated Transit Union 714

Empower Lewiston

Maine Asphalt Pavement Assocation (MAPA)

Maine Primary Care Association

Maine State Chamber of Commerce

Androscoggin Chamber of Commerce

Maine State Green Party

Maine State Building and Construction Trades Council

Bangor Regional Chamber of Commerce

Town of Orono

Maine Airport Managers Association

Cape Elizabeth

Houlton

Maine Transit Association

Maine Sheriffs' Association

Maine Prosecutors Association

Town of Gray

The Maine State Chamber of Commerce

Maine Rep. Jim Martin, D-Orono

Robert G. Yandow, York Town Manager

Arundel Selectman Mark Paulin

If you would like to have your name or organization added to the list above, email Election@Exceptionmag.com. Please reference the question number and whether you support or oppose the measure in the subject line. We will still publish guest editorials on each measure up until Election Day as well.

FULL TEXT OF LEGISLATION BELOW

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1.  36 MRSA §1482, sub-§1, ¶C, as amended by PL 2001, c. 671, §32, is further amended to read:

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