Screw you, kid.
As if Maine Gov. Paul LePage wasn't bad enough, now he has a wannabe mini-me in the form of Lewiston Mayor Robert MacDonald. MacDonald wants the state legislature to pass a bill setting up a
public registry for people on government assistance:
“We will be submitting a bill to the next legislative session asking that a website be created containing the names, addresses, length of time on assistance and the benefits being collected by every individual on the dole. After all, the public has a right to know how its money is being spent.”
MacDonald is of course targeting what we generally think of as welfare recipients, but what about the many
other forms of government benefits that flow to middle-class people and to the top one percent? Will he be creating a registry for people getting the home mortgage interest deduction? The carried interest loophole? Social Security? Medicare? Pell grants? Student loans?
MacDonald also wants a bill preventing children born to families already on welfare from getting benefits, but somehow he didn't mention anything about the bill that must surely accompany that to sponsor free birth control and abortion for all.