How much does Emily Cain want to raise taxes?

May 10, 2016

Does ME-02 candidate Emily Cain support the Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton plan to raise taxes on Maine families?

Clinton wants to raise taxes by $498 million over the next decade, which will reduce the GDP by 1% and cost 311,000 jobs.  Sanders wants to raise taxes by $13.6 trillion – a plan including a $4,700 per year tax on middle class households – that will decrease the GDP by 9.5% and cost 5.973 million jobs.

Since Sanders wiped the floor with Clinton in the Maine Caucuses, will Cain join her Democratic base in embracing the Sanders plan to raise taxes, or will Caine snub Maine Democrats by warmly embracing Hillary Clinton’s tax hike plan instead?

NRCC Comment: “Emily Cain should say whether she would support the tax hike plan of Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders if she were somehow elected to Congress.  Voters deserve to know just how much Emily Cain and Democrats want to raise taxes on Maine families.” -NRCC Spokesman Chris Pack