Business advocacy groups converged on Annapolis on Monday to protest legislation that would expand Maryland’s sales tax to services not currently taxed and raise an estimated $2.9 billion over the next five years to help fund the recommendations of the Kirwan Commission.
They spoke prior to a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the legislation. The hearing began this afternoon at 1 EST. The bill does not as of yet have a Senate counterpart.
“It is a regressive tax on our state’s small businesses and their customers. Just one trip to the auto mechanic…will double what proponents say the annual cost to Maryland taxpayers will be,” Mike O’Halloran, state director, Maryland & Delaware National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), said at a news conference at the Lowe House Office Building.
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8 comments:
What is wrong with these people?
Nearly half of the $2.9 billion ADDITIONAL in new taxes is Salariy increases for teachers. For FY2020, the CURRENT average teacher pay is $69,557 and by. FY2029, It will be $93,137. Can somebody tell me how giving a teacher in Baltimore City a $20,000 raise improves the graduation rate there that is now about only 72%?
The government has an insatiable appetite for the money in your pockets
This is the same bad management that has good people leaving New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and other high tax states and coming to Delaware, South Carolina and other low tax states. They fund bad programs, spend on welfare systems and corruption deals that costs everyone in Maryland. It's a formula for disaster. Today's politicians vote it in, then move on and leave the poor residents with the trauma of their decisions. In this tax and spend methodology, there is never enough. It seems the common denominator with all of this is...DEMONCRATS.
Hogan agreed with the Kirwan plan and even supported Kirwan for working so hard on this plan for many years. Hogan also stated it would not raise taxes. Now what is Hogan doing? Is Hogan still supporting this plan like a good Democrat that he is or is Hogan against the plan like the conservative Republican that he wants the citizens of Maryland to believe with his deceitful ways?
This is going to kill the "service business" located along the wrong side of the State boundaries of Maryland/Delaware.
Taxed Enough Already
shop delaware. f maryland idiots!
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