A Working Class Taxpayer is Something to Be

Issac Smith calls Mike Busch's call for a tax hike "a welcome improvement to the budget debate". What did Busch say?

Busch also used the appearance to build the case for raising the income and sales tax, noting that the levies in Maryland are lower than in most surrounding states.

"I don't think a tax increase is going to drive jobs outside of the state," Busch said.

Busch said it is important for lawmakers to meet the challenge ahead. "People don't expect us just to go to receptions and eat shrimp and drink cocktails," he said. "They expect us to make tough decisions."

So basically, Smith believes that the only constructive contribution to the budget debate is to stick it to working and middle class taxpayers, as opposed to reducing the overgrown blob that is State Government. And that philosophy is anything but constructive.

As usual when Democrats start pounding the war drum for tax increases, the working and middle classes that the "Progressives" claim to be watching out for are the ones who are going to wind up paying the freight for an ever-enlarging State Government infrastructure the working and middle classes probably don't want in the first place...