Authoritarianism Progresses in Maine

Rome Maine fights for its independence

Photo by Rommel Davila on Unsplash

Small Towns in Maine are in need of a strong Home Rule defense against the encroaching public-private corporate state that has been amassing centralized power ever since 1976 when the Legislature declared that centrally managing the economy is an essential government function seven years after the Home Rule Amendment was added to the Maine Constitution in 1969.

The longer the public sector collaborates with the private sector, the more the functions and properties that are intended to distinguish one from the other, blend together until big business levies taxes and writes the laws and the big government cloaks itself in secrecy.

Rome, Maine is a municipality that wants out of a contractual agreement codified in a special act of legislation in 1999 in an innovative twist on state corporate welfare, a function that the State continually reinvents in a myriad of forms serving the same principle, captive public capitalization of private industry.

The ac…