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Marc Kilmer: Let consumers make health care choices
- The other day my 6-year-old niece told her mother that she thought the family should buy a boat. Her mother tried to explain to her how much boats cost, that the family needed to spend money on other things, and an elemental conception of having finite resources. To a 6-year-old, however, none of that mattered. She wanted a boat, and she saw her parents as having limitless resources to provide any desire she wanted. If they didn’t buy a boat, it was because they selfishly wanted to keep her from enjoying it.
Marc Kilmer: Expanding Medicaid ensures budget problems
- During the recent special legislative session to address Maryland’s structural deficit, lawmakers increased a variety of taxes so revenue could keep up with projected spending. With future spending obligations being the rationale to raise taxes, it seems sensible that our legislators would take steps to control spending.
Marc Kilmer: Cigarette tax increase plan is flawed
- As part of his effort to close Maryland’s structural deficit, Gov. Martin O’Malley has set his sights on a favored taxman target: Cigarette smokers. The governor has floated the idea of doubling Maryland’s $1-a-pack tax on cigarettes, rekindling a proposal that died in the state Senate last spring. This raises a question: Why should cigarette smokers have to pay off so much of the state’s budget deficit? Moreover, is increasing Maryland’s fiscal dependence on the cigarette tax such a good idea?
Ira Joshua Parker
Tampa Real Estate Examiner
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Non-profit developer looks to get buyers involved in the building process
Tampa Real Estate Examiner
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Non-profit developer looks to get buyers involved in the building process
