To the editor:
Recently Congressman Poliquin proposed a bill to target food stamp fraud, saying he wanted to stop people from cheating the system and that he wanted to save “precious, limited taxpayer money for those who truly need it.” But consider the fact that Poliquin has just been caught paying his taxes late dozens of times, and he abused a loophole he created in the Maine Tree Growth Program to pay almost no taxes on his multi-million dollar property.
The legislature and Governor LePage actually fixed the law after Poliquin was caught, because it was a system intended to help Maine jobs, not Poliquin’s checkbook.
Contrasted with his latest bill proposal, the whole situation drips of irony. The direction of Poliquin’s moral compass has to be seriously questioned. He seems incredibly worried about other people playing by the rules, but doesn’t play by them himself.
