{"id":17959,"date":"2010-03-12T07:23:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17959"},"modified":"2010-03-12T07:23:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:23:20","slug":"maryland-shoots-self-in-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17959","title":{"rendered":"Maryland shoots self in foot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I’ve written about this before, but it bears repeating. In today’s Wall Street Journal, the editorial board warns Illinois governor, Pat Quinn, against raising taxes with a piece entitled Maryland’s Mobile Millionaires<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks in part to its soak-the-rich theology, Maryland still has a $2 billion deficit and Montgomery County is $760 million in the red. Governor Martin O’Malley’s office tells us he wants the higher rates to expire “as scheduled at the end of 2010.” But there are bills in both chambers of the legislature to extend the surcharge. The state’s best hope is that politicians in other states are as self-destructive as those in Annapolis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the Wall Street Journal, 2300 millionaires fled Maryland between 2007 and 2008 when Governor O’Malley hiked taxes on millionaires from 4.75% to 9.3%. Now, I’m no millionaire, but my new job is a stone’s throw from Maryland, so I could choose either Maryland or West Virginia for my new home. I chose West Virginia and my income tax withholding tumbled $1800\/year. Since I’m not a millionaire, to me that’s a lot of money. I could go on about the savings that resulted from my choice to move to West Virginia, but you probably wouldn’t believe it.<\/p>\n

So if thousands of millionaires left, how many non-millionaires left, I wonder, and how much additional income taxes went with them?. Did I mention that the Republican governor, Robert Erlich left O’Malley almost a billion dollar surplus in 2007 and by the end of the year O’Malley was raising taxes? So when will liberals learn about tax hikes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I’ve written about this before, but it bears repeating. In today’s Wall Street Journal, … Maryland shoots self in foot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}