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Opinion
Our Say:Special session hands taxpayers a $1.3 billion billPublished 11/20/07
So, it's over. In the end, the legislators who assembled this month for a special session did more or less what Gov. Martin O'Malley asked them to: They raised taxes by roughly $1.3 billion.
They did it on Mr. O'Malley's schedule - a three-week special session- rather than waiting for the three-month regular session in which they could have considered things more carefully. And, as a bonus, they finished by Thanksgiving - allowing for a holiday in which taxpayers, looking ahead to being picked clean, will have an unusual degree of empathy with the turkey.
In narrow political terms, the special session was a win for Mr....
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