NEWS
By Jon Morgan and Jon Morgan,Evening Sun Staff Marina Sarris | January 25, 1991
Two measures to raise taxes on cigarettes are heading for the General Assembly.One would boost Maryland's cigarette tax rate from the sixth lowest in the country to the sixth highest. That bill, expected to be introduced next week, would raise the state tax on cigarettes by 20 cents a pack, to 33 cents.The other measure would extend the state's 5 percent sales tax to cigarettes, which could add up to a dime a pack.House Speaker R. Clayton Mitchell Jr., an outspoken critic of new taxes, said he would consider supporting the 20-cent tax increase if someone can demonstrate the need for new revenues.
NEWS
November 10, 1991
From: Jean McGrathBel AirNot property taxes. As a senior citizen on fixed retirement income, the continued increase in property tax can soon mean we will no longer be able to keep our home.Since we bought our home, the assessment has increased to five times its purchase price, and our property tax has gone to 10 times the original tax bill, while our income inretirement is 60 percent of our working income. There should be a more equitable tax that would include all residents and not just property owners.
NEWS
By Michael A. Fletcher and Michael A. Fletcher,Staff Writer | May 14, 1992
The Board of Estimates approved a $2.08 billion budget for fiscal 1993 yesterday that doesn't raise taxes and requires city employees to go a second straight year without cost-of-living wage increases.The spending plan, which is virtually unchanged from the budget unveiled by Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke last month, now goes to an eager City Council for review."There are a number of issues that we want to look at," said Council President Mary Pat Clarke. "We want to take a look at the tax rate and see if there are ways to honor our commitment to chip the nickels away."
NEWS
By Lynda Robinsonand Eileen Canzian | November 19, 1990
No one called it dead on arrival. But even supporters of a landmark proposal to restructure Maryland's tax system were pessimistic about its recommendations to increase and expand the sales tax, raise taxes on higher incomes and redistribute millions of dollars to Baltimore and poor, rural counties."
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By Karen Hosler and Karen Hosler,Washington Bureau | March 4, 1992
WASHINGTON -- President Bush, whose re-election prospects have been severely damaged by a deal he made with Congress in 1990 to raise taxes, now says he's sorry he did it.In a series of interviews on the eve of yesterday's primaries, the president called breaking his "no new taxes" pledge "a mistake" because it has caused him so much "political flak" and because it has not stopped Democratic lawmakers from seeking further tax increases.White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater insisted there was no coordinated plan to have the president disavow the 1990 budget deal at a time when so many Republican voters have indicated they are angry with him for breaking his major campaign promise of 1988.
NEWS
By Karen Hosler and Gilbert A. Lewthwaite and Karen Hosler and Gilbert A. Lewthwaite,Washington Bureau | February 16, 1993
WASHINGTON -- President Clinton appears ready to raise taxes on energy in the least visible way -- through a less-conspicuous levy on the heat content of fuel instead of an easy-to-spot sales tax at the gasoline pump.As part of his effort to spread the energy tax burden as broadly, thinly and evenly as possible, Mr. Clinton's evolving plan is now centered on a proposal that would raise taxes on most forms of fuel, including coal, oil and natural gas, on the basis of British Thermal Units (BTUs)