Gov. Martin O?Malley has unveiled tax increases that would have high-income earners paying more to the state, and consumers paying a penny more in sales tax.

His effort to balance a stifling structural budget has come under fire by Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold, a Republican who served as a delegate for 16 years.

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