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(1957 Chevrolet Police Car, Series 150 4-Door Sedan) As the Sun reports today, a lot of new laws go into effect in Maryland beginning on Monday. The "living wage law" will set a higher minimum wage for those employed by state contractors. The law provides for a minimum wage of $11.30 in the Baltimore/Washington area and [...] Just a brief post today to cover a couple items. The New York Times publishes a nice article about the attraction of Delmarva for retirees and how growth is spreading to some of the towns on the Shore that haven’t experienced much growth in the past few decades such as Snow Hill, Crisfield and Cambridge. [...] Governor Martin O’Malley announced yesterday his intention to propose a doubling of the state’s cigarette tax from $1 to $2 per pack. Revenue from the increase would be used to reduce the state’s deficit and to make healthcare more affordable for poor Marylanders. The increase would give Maryland the 7th highest tobacco tax. Delaware [...] (Dr. Schreiber of St. Augustine gives an typhoid innoculation at a rural school in St. Augustine County, Texas in April of 1943. Library of Congress Collection) It’s worth noting that SCHIP expansion (conference report) passed the House yesterday by 265-159; better than I expected but not enough to override a veto. The Senate is expected [...] Yes! It’s true! Governor O’Malley wants to give away one hundred million dollars (That’s $100,000,000.00) of state money to guys like this and others in the racing industry not just next year, but every year for the foreseeable future! Governor O’Malley yesterday unveiled his plan to bring slots to Maryland and ‘save’ the horse racing [...] (Sharps Island Light) When the first Sharps Island Light was built in 1838, Sharps Island was almost 900 acres. Gradually, over the years, it was eroded away and, around 1940, the last little bit of Sharps Island disappeared beneath the waves. (When I was very young, my father would sometime take me fishing around Sharps [...] (John Ogilby, Nova Terrae-Mariae tabula, 1671. Huntingfield Collection, Maryland State Archives) Well, by now I’m sure you’re as tired of reading about taxes as I am of writing about them. Pretty much everyone has had their say about O’Malley’s proposals by now. The democrats claim that O’Malley is simply addressing the problem that former governor [...] (note: this photo of the Baltimore inner harbor is part of a larger panorama taken by Jawed Karim and found at Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.) Martin O’Malley climbed to the top of a downtown Baltimore restaurant yesterday to hold a news conference about his proposals to close corporate tax loopholes [...] Governor O’Malley revealed more details of his tax proposals yesterday, focusing on his proposal to reform the income tax structure in Maryland. Basically, his proposal involves significantly expanding the bottom tax brackets while adding two new brackets at the top for those married couples earning more than $200,000 and more than $500,000. According to [...] Well, it’s tempting to say that the Governor is nickel-and-diming us with his tax proposals, but it’s really more like a penny here and a penny there. The biggest item is a proposal to add a penny to the sales tax, from five cents per dollar to six cents. Those pennies add up, though [...] |
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