Matt goes over his weekly column for The Bangor Daily News. Here’s a quick except

“For the last five years, the Maine state government has seemingly been on a mission to spend as much money as humanly possible. So expansive has this spending spree been, that one could be forgiven for not even being able to keep track of it all……

One of the things you frequently hear from advocates of what I once called a “reckless orgy of spending” is that such spending is necessary, because government had previously been starved of cash by “years of budget cuts,” supposedly hollowing out the cupboard and creating a need of these poor neglected government agencies to be “replenished.” Gov. Janet Mills, the logic goes, needed to radically increase spending because former Gov. Paul LePage had been so mercilessly savage about starving the government”………..

To read the full opinion piece click here