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[quote=Anonymous]Good.  We can't afford Kirwin.  The state and county taxes are already some of the highest in the nation.  Add to that the huge costs that we bear from the pandemic response (from setting up the field hospital in the Baltimore Convention Center, the additional beds in the hotel next door, the Covid-19 tests just acquired from S Korea, etc).  And the fact that most of the state residents are not working.  The state is paying out unemployment and not collecting tax revenues from a huge portion of the population.  The Kirwin commission recommendations are expected to cost $4B annually to implement. 
 So, the state has burned through their reserves and is going to have severely depleted tax revenue, where do the supporters think that the money for the Kirwin recommendations is going to come from?  You want to raise taxes on businesses that have closed their doors, but are still paying employees for months?  There are a ton of small businesses that have already gone under and lots more that will go under before we reopen.  If you raise taxes, you are going to force some middle sized companies to also shut their doors for good.

You can't bleed a corpse.  Some of you need to get your heads out of the clouds and pay attention to the cold hard facts.  Maryland is going to have a big problem next year with the budget.  There are going to have to be cuts across the board because they won't be able to afford the budget as it was.  There is no way that the state will be able to afford $4B in any of the next 2-3 years (at least).  [/quote]

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