Guest Column: State remains in the red

Last fall, the General Assembly approved Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposal for the largest tax increase in Maryland history and simultaneous increases in the largest number of tax categories ever raised in a single session of the legislature.

You might have thought such actions would have solved Maryland's budget woes once and for all. If so, you were mistaken. Now, less than a year from the last fiscal "crisis," another major fiscal problem is staring us straight in the eye.

This new crisis has emerged for two reasons:

Despite all of last year's overblown rhetoric about spending cuts, state...