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Lame Excuse for Welfare: Bogus Food Stamp Challenge

Started by cordblomquist · 10 months ago

In a letter today in the Washington Post, Maryland food stamp bureaucrat Kevin McGuire tried to justify more spending on food stamps (and his own job) by making misleading claims.  (Maryland’s liberal government recently raised taxes t ... Continue reading »

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  • wait maryland raised taxes recently? sorry for asking such an ignorant question... but until i read this i was actually considering moving to maryland *because* of the income taxes.
  • Maryland recently raised sales taxes, and also raised income taxes on certain high-income households.

    Note that in addition to state income tax, there is also a piggyback county income tax in Maryland, which varies from county to county, and which can bring the overall state-and-local income tax rate to something like 9 percent for middle-income households in high-tax counties. In such counties, income taxes are no lower than they are in surrounding high-tax jurisdictions, like the District of Columbia.

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