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13 October
5:37 pm

Our property taxes, highest in the country. Our energy costs number four in the country. Our schools and child welfare...are number fifty.

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Bobby Charles, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (WGME)

5:37 pm
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Why we checked itMultiple specific state rankings (property taxes #1, energy costs #4, schools/child welfare #50) that can be verified against national data
What we foundThe claim contains a kernel of truth on each sub-point but overstates all three: Maine ranks #1 in property tax burden by income-share (one methodology) but not by effective rate; energy costs rank approximately 4th (corroborated); and schools/child welfare are not ranked 50th — education ranks 41st by KIDS COUNT and child welfare ranks around 21st overall, though Maine's child maltreatment rate is the highest in the nation by one federal metric.
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