LD1376 increases the state minimum wage of $15 per hour.
The Maine State House of Representatives passed LD1376 on June 12, 2023 by a vote of 71 to 70. We have assigned pluses to the nays because minimum wage laws are anti-constitutional acts of government-imposed theft that violate the right to freedom of contract between employers and employees. They go against free-market principles and disparage the principles of both the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which were intended to protect “private property” and guarantee “equal protection of the laws” for all Americans.