Advocates line up in defense of Maryland taxes
Election-year calls for tax cuts trigger campaigns to keep them
Defending taxes “is part of the conversation right now,” said Benjamin Orr, acting executive director at the Maryland Center on Economic Policy, a nonpartisan think tank. The group opposes cuts to government revenue streams on the grounds that they could ultimately hurt the state’s ability to deliver services.
Orr’s group and others hope to change the conversation to include: “What are we getting back for these taxes? What are the benefits that the state receives?”
