December 16th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

When the Maryland General Assembly does begin to meet in regular session in January, much of the attention is going to be on how to handle and increasing state deficit, currently sitting at $1.5 billion dollars.  House Minority Leader Jason Buckel thinks that one option will probably be off the table this year – taxes…

   

“There probably will not be any broad-based tax increases.  Not because the opinions and the mentalities and the business sensibilities of the powers that be in Annapolis have changed in the last nine months. But because it is election year.”