O’Malley breaks promise not to propose tax increase

By Mark Newgent
Published January 23, 2011 5:00am ET
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Remember Governor O’Malley’s campaign commercial banging Bob Ehrlich for raising fees and taxes? You know the one, in which an allegedly random citizen says “if it comes out of my pocket, it’s a tax.”

Going by that logic, O’Malley’s FY 2012 budget proposal contains a $264 million tax increase. 

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