Democrats in the Maryland General Assembly are clearly nostalgic for the days of tax-and-spend liberal Martin O’Malley, but Governor Larry Hogan and the people of Maryland are fighting back.
O’Malley presided over more than 40 tax increases during his two terms as governor, becoming so toxic that a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans two-to-one elected GOP Governor Larry Hogan in 2014 and reelected him by a double-digit margin in 2018. But the state’s few remaining O’Malley fans – a handful of partisan state legislators – are trying to revive his legacy by proposing the biggest tax increase in state history.
Under Governor Hogan, Maryland has experienced an economic revival including 149,000 new jobs and a near record low unemployment rate. But Democrats are trying to undo that progress with a $2.9 billion sales tax increase that would impact every man, woman, and child in Maryland – and even visitors and tourists – by taxing routine items like haircuts, lawn care, and dry cleaning.
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What about our 2% COLA, Larry? Fight for your employees, too, and not just the ones who carry guns...
ReplyDeleteWe moved to the Eastern Shore because we loved the small town atmosphere. Our realtor (Well known in your area) lied to us about taxes. Actually lied. Guess we should have done our homework. Well we moved to Florida because of MD high taxes, water etc. Too bad because I feel alot of Marylanders will move especially businesses because cost of living is much more affordable in other States.
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Even O'Malley was a better Governor than Hogan, and that's not saying a lot, Maryland has the worst Governor, Salisbury the worst Mayor and the SPD the worst Police Chief and also before I forget we have the worst States Attorney Jaime Dykes. DRAIN THE SWAMP.
ReplyDelete10:45: Is this Jake Day’s wife trolling? Probably since you now have a lot of spare time on your hands...
ReplyDeleteHogan is just as bad as O'Malley was. Hogan steals money from MD State Employee Retirement Fund and has not paid anything back into the Fund and paid no interest. Same thing O'Malley did. Hogan the traitor wants to out with a bang after allowing the Democrats to have their desires. At least the ones of us that are nable to move knows the Democrats are crooked and what we have to deal with.
ReplyDeleteGood luck taxing haircuts. I've never seen a barber ring up and record a haircut payment. NEVER! It is a cash business. I can only speculate how much a barber actually reports as income to the IRS. It's not what's in that drawer with all the loose bills in it.
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