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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a resident of MoCo.  And the rest of the state is not as wealthy as MoCo.  Hogan made a campaign promise that he kept; he kept the legislature from increasing taxes in the state and lowered household expenses for many MD families by lowering the tolls.  Had Brown won, he likely would have continued raising taxes as O'Malley had done repeatedly through his tenure in office.   H[b]ogan paid for higher state expenses with the money that was earned by the state from the taxes on a longer summer when he mandated schools start after Labor Day.  [/b]Jealous would likely overturn the XO for school starts, which would lose the added revenue for the state from the taxes from the longer summer.

The residents of MoCo have a lot more disposable income than the rest of the state.  MoCo residents may be willing to pay more taxes, but there are many people in the rest of the state that are already pressured by our high tax rate and don't want to fund Jealous' very expensive initiatives or the revenue loss from lost taxes.  [/quote]

Wait a minute. You know this, how? The lowered tolls in 2015 took $54 million per year out of the transportation budget - money used to pay off bonds the state issues to pay for highway and bridge construction and repairs (including the ICC). How much more money did the state earn in the last week of August last year from tourism in Ocean City, how do you know this, and where did that money go?[/quote]

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