Posted on 02/28/2008 11:05:24 AM PST by JZelle
ANNAPOLIS — Senate budget leaders said yesterday they will not repeal the new taxes imposed on computer services, despite an all-out protest by business leaders during the 2008 General Assembly session.
The lawmakers said they will need the additional revenue to help close the budget shortfall.
"We don't have a replacement for $200 million," said Sen. Ulysses Currie, Prince George's Democrat and chairman of the Budget and Taxation Committee.
Opponents of the tax — including Republicans, Comptroller Peter Franchot and other Democrats — said the increase was slipped into a broad tax bill during the special Assembly session in November.
Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, and leaders of the Democrat-controlled Assembly have balked at a repeal.
State budget specialists already plan to cut $200 million to $300 million from Mr. O'Malley's $31.6 billion budget for fiscal 2009.
Lawmakers are set to hear proposals to repeal the tax March 12.
Repealing the tax would either increase budget cuts to $500 million or result in new taxes, both unpopular alternatives among lawmakers.
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The tax will only serve to drive more tech firms into Northern Virginia, which is okay by me, since I'll be looking for a job there after graduation next year.
To Maryland, From Computer firms....
Dear Maryland,
Instead of sending you the tax increase, we decided to send you our ‘change of address’ notice.
To Virginia...
Cordially yours
And everyone acts as if though its a shock that no blue states have jobs. Geez. Tax them into submission or retreat should be the Democrat’s rallying cry.
Now they are coming south and brining their idiotic communistic beliefs and screwing us up to just like they did at home.
Will the last computer geek to leave Maryland please turn out the lights?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
You mean they’re starting to swarm SC already?
Yup,
the mass influx right now is from the rust belt where the unions ran off all the jobs and taxes killed what was left.
Typical Liberal rationale: tax based on who is successful rather than use any rational basis of who is consuming the tax money.
The people who let them get away with targeted taxes like this have forgotten history. The taxers might attack groups too small to fight back, but eventually everybody gets broken down into some small group and becomes prey.
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