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Ladies & Gentlemen,

I have spent all morning going through literally thousands of e-mail messages. Unfortunately, there's no way to have that kind of time to review each and every one of them and so you know, I get no junk/spam mail at all.

That being said, may I ask a favor from all of you? Please use the subject line as the main topic of your message? If there's nothing there, I delete it. As I take every piece of e-mail seriously, all I ask is that you help me out by letting me know your message isn't a joke or something along those lines.

It will make things more efficient and I can better assure your message/information gets out to everyone. Thank You Very Much, Joe

A Message From Senator Andy Harris

Friends,

I want to take a minute and put back on my "State Senator" hat instead of my "congressional candidate" hat and discuss the O'Malley Tax Plan.

The O'Malley Tax Plan is a prescription for more government and more taxes. Ronald Reagan once outlined a strategic vision for big government bureaucrats like Martin O'Malley: "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it." Maryland's families and Maryland's small business owners are on the move and as the saying goes, so O'Malley wants to tax them.

Governor O'Malley's liberal reliance on tax-and-spend policies has led to a litany of new and increased "revenue measures:" income tax, corporate tax, corporate transfer tax, tobacco tax, sales tax, and new service sales taxes. The sad truth is we do not even collect all of the sales tax owed to the state now, and yet O'Malley wants to increase the rate.

Phony relief is promised for Maryland's middle class, but the numbers just don't add up. The truth is O'Malley wants to increase the Sales Tax by 20%, wants to tax health club members, and to increase the gas tax. The truth is working families in Maryland are going to suffer, but somehow O'Malley tries to spin $2 billion in new tax revenue as a "tax-cut" for working families.

Mr. O'Malley's poetic spin may be delightful to the ear, but it burns a whole in our pocketbooks. On the one hand I hear Gov. O'Malley laud a cigarette tax as promoting healthy living and on the other hand I hear him promise an expansion of the sales tax to gym memberships. This just proves the cigarette tax is not about improving health in Maryland; it is about increasing the money O'Malley has at his disposal to spend.

I'm tired of the hollow promises, on tax cuts that are really tax hikes, on lowering utility rates that went up. It is time for Governor O'Malley to step to the plate to address Maryland's spending disorder through prudent and judicious spending reductions, elimination of frivolous waste, and taking a cold hard look at the state's operations-like he pledged would happen on his first day.

Let your elected officials know that you OPPOSE ALL NEW TAXES.

Thanks,

Andy

I'M BACK!

Sit back and get ready for the return of Salisbury News!

No, I did NOT get shut down. Rumor in the Court House is that Barrie Tilghman & Chief Webster's Attorneys shut me down. BITE ME!

What is it with you Lawyers that you can't understand the word vacation?

I will gradually get back to Posting as usual. I was on the road for 17 straight hours yesterday and I'm running off of 4 hours sleep, so give me some time to catch back up.

For those of you who sent me those kind wishes for a nice vacation, THANK YOU! We made a 6 year olds dreams come true for the past 7 days and when I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

Sit tight Folks, there's LOTS to Blog about!