Progressive Maryland Launches Campaign for Tax Fairness
Friday, February 17, 2012(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