Poll: Close Deficit With Sales Tax Hike?
The state needs to address a $1 billion budget deficit.
The weeks ahead promise more than a few tough votes as Gov. Martin O'Malley's agenda goes forward in the Maryland General Assembly. He may call for raising the state's sales or gas taxes to pay for job creation initiatives and help address the $1.1 billion budget deficit. O'Malley is toying with the idea of raising the state sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent. “I’m saying it’s another idea, and if the legislature doesn’t like the things that are proposed I think we should remember that no one in our state lost a house, lost a job or lost a business because of the additional penny on the sales tax, and that these bridges don’t build themselves,” O’Malley told reporters Wednesday, according to The Washington Post. Columbia blogger Tom …
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Michael Ernest
2:22 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012
Well if you want to continue to lie with statistics, how about this! The good news is that O'Malley is asking for less of a rise in the sales tax compared with 2008. Then it was a 20% increase, now it is only 16.7%. I guess we should be overjoyed by the downward trend. more ›