Governor defines “rich”, and don’t worry, it’s not most of us…
While Democrats have been spouting the same old tune about the need to soak the rich…. ah… make our taxes “fairer for working families”, they usually define the so-called “rich” in such a way that it includes just about anybody who has a few pennies left to rub together. Today they re-defined the term in such a way that it will make it harder to argue with the new and higher taxes coming our way. Harder, but not impossible.
Today Governor Martin O’Malley began a series of visits across the state, designed to slowly let out some aspects of his tax and budget proposal. It’s a sly move, in that to release the whole plan would overwhelm the media and the public, who would have a field day with it. Although today’s news seemed good, eventually the news will come out about the effect the plan will have on the pocketbook, and there could be an uproar. Better to release aspects that are positive, and hope the negative points get lost in the shuffle. Today he met with a lady in Baltimore county, and a few of her neighbors, in what is being billed as a “kitchen table talk”. Actually, he came into the home of Sarah Achenbach and sat down at the dining room table, to talk about the budget problems facing the state and the need to increase revenues by upping the tax of the rich. With questions that seemed designed to spur the Governor to talk about aspects of his plan he wanted to highlight (after assurances that they were not told to ask those questions), O’Malley then help a press conference in the lady’s front yard with Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith.
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