[CPEO-IRF] Maryland's proposed transportation tax

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brown ties BRAC economic promise to tax plan

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun (MD)
October 31, 2007

BOWIE

The economic promise for Maryland of military base realignment could 
falter if lawmakers fail to approve tax increases the O'Malley 
administration is seeking to upgrade highways and transit systems, Lt. 
Gov. Anthony G. Brown warned yesterday.

Speaking at a meeting of Cabinet secretaries, Brown added an inability 
to cope with base-related growth to the litany of dire consequences that 
state officials say could befall Maryland if Gov. Martin O'Malley's 
package of tax increases and revisions is not adopted.

Brown, who is overseeing the administration's base-growth planning, said 
the state's ability to absorb up to 60,000 new jobs around its military 
installations may depend on finding the money needed to widen highways 
and expand transit serving Aberdeen Proving Ground, Fort Meade and other 
facilities over the next few years.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.brac31oct31,0,2167206.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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