Progressive Maryland Launches Campaign for Tax Fairness

Friday, February 17, 2012

Progressive Maryland Launches Campaign for Tax Fairness(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Progressive Maryland (PM) this week launched a statewide campaign for tax fairness with a mailing to voters in selected election districts across the state highlighting the inequity in the current tax system and many of the proposals being considered by the General Assembly to close an estimated $1.1 billion budget shortfall. "A progressive state like Maryland cannot continue to permit Maryland millionaires to pay a
startlingly lower share of their income in state taxes nor can it keep allowing large, profitable multistate corporations to pay little or no state income tax through loopholes in the tax code," said PM President Elbridge James. The campaign, which enjoys significant union support, will continue with social media, phone banks and e-mail blasts to voters across the state urging them to contact key legislators on the issue. Canvassing voters door-to-door and additional mailings to voters are scheduled in the districts of key legislators over the next several weeks. "It is unconscionable that the legislature is considering cuts to education and public safety when we have millionaires getting a tax cut and huge, profitable companies like Pepco and Verizon paying no state income taxes last year," said Kate Planco Waybright, PM Interim Director.
- image courtesy of Progressive Maryland

 

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