Seeing the Light?

You will never guess who wrote this lament:

So the resulting energy tax hike is both large and narrowly targeted: at the people who create jobs.

The author of that revelation was none other than......Adam Pagnucco.

Yes....Adam Pagnucco has realized that Democrats, when they go out to raise taxes, invariable raise taxes either directly on Maryland's middle and working class families, or they raise them on the companies that employ Maryland's middle and working class families. In the instance of this tax increase, proposed by Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett as a business energy tax, the cost of the tax will be doubly born by the people of Montgomery County. On one hand, all Montgomery County residents who frequent these businesses will be faced with increased costs in an effort to offset the cost of the tax. On the other, a number of jobs that would otherwise be created by these Montgomery County businesses may not be created due to the burden created by Leggett's tax.

All that being said, I would like to welcome Adam Pagnucco as a visitor over here to the real world, as he examines this and other tax proposals by Maryland Democrats that would further devastate our state's economy, and harm the standard of living for Maryland's middle and working class families.

Going for the obvious headline

From today's Post:

Tax is Deemed Legal but Unwise

Well, aren't most taxes legal but unwise? But read into the story and you see a fascinating set of circumstances in Montgomery County where Democrats want to give developers money to refund them for roads and green space projects, through a special tax. And like most complicated tax schemes, it breaks down into who gets taxed for what, who gets repaid for what, and asking why taxpayers are paying multiple developers for the same projects. Read the whole thing. And then there is this:

But yesterday's report went further than Rodriquez's by raising questions about the wisdom of the tax system. The development district allows developers to be repaid for building infrastructure they agreed to construct when they won development rights, which residents have protested is an unfair giveaway.

Completely unsurprising given the amount of insane issues regarding problems with development in Montgomery County; just take a look at the Clarksburg debacle to see how poorly development has been handled in the county.

Wonder how long before John Leopold's development buddies ask for a similar handout here...