{"id":6515,"date":"2016-04-04T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6515"},"modified":"2016-04-03T23:20:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T03:20:50","slug":"who-supports-the-senates-tax-cut-for-the-wealthy-bueller-bueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6515","title":{"rendered":"Who Supports the Senate’s Tax Cut for the Wealthy? Bueller? Bueller?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Maryland Senate passed a cut in marginal tax rates that will only benefit the top 11.1% of Maryland taxpayers. It’s a tax cut that literally gives the wealthy enough to buy a nice iPad but leaves the middle class with barely enough to buy a meal for one at Chipotle <\/a>(but they only get even that if they have exemptions).<\/p>\n

The bill has crossed over to the House of Delegates. Lots of people and groups testified against the bill at the hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, including:<\/p>\n

Maryland CASH Campaign
\nMaryland Center on Economic Policy
\nMaryland Nonprofits
\nHealth Care for the Homeless
\nMaryland State Education Association
\nAdvocates of Children and Youth
\nMaryland Alliance for the Poor
\nLeague of Women Voters of Maryland
\nMD\/DC State Council of SEIU
\nMaryland Working Families
\nAFSCME<\/p>\n

The following groups also signed on to a letter protesting holding the increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) hostage to a tax cut for high earners:<\/p>\n

Advocates for Children and Youth
\nAFSCME Council 3
\nBaltimore CASH Campaign
\nBaltimore County Arts Guild
\nBaltimore Neighborhoods, Inc.
\nCAF\u00c9 Montgomery
\nCASA of Baltimore County
\nCouncil for Bile Acid Deficiency Diseases
\nFuel Fund of Maryland
\nHealth Care for the Homeless
\nJob Opportunities Task Force
\nLaurel Advocacy and Referral Services
\nLeague of Women Voters of Maryland
\nMaryland CASH Campaign
\nMaryland Center on Economic Policy
\nMaryland Disability Law Center
\nMaryland Education Coalition
\nMaryland Nonprofits
\nMaryland PTA
\nMaryland State Education Association
\nMaryland Working Families
\nNAMI Maryland
\nNational Association of Social Workers, Maryland Chapter
\nPain Connection-Chronic Pain Outreach Center, Inc.
\nPublic Justice Center
\nProgressive Maryland
\nSEIU Maryland Council
\nThe Way Out Program<\/p>\n

So who testified on the bill at the House Ways and Means Committee hearing?<\/p>\n

Not Governor Larry Hogan. His office didn’t even bother to send anyone to support the tax cut for the wealthy.<\/p>\n

In fact, no one testified in favor of the tax cut. Maybe the House should take that as a hint and shelve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Maryland Senate passed a cut in marginal tax rates that will only benefit the top 11.1% of Maryland taxpayers. It’s a tax cut that literally gives the wealthy enough to buy a nice iPad but leaves the middle class with barely enough to buy a meal for one at Chipotle (but they only get … Continue reading Who Supports the Senate’s Tax Cut for the Wealthy? Bueller? Bueller?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[1816,1815,1817],"class_list":["post-6515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taxes","tag-earned-income-tax-credit","tag-eitc","tag-tax-cuts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1H5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}