Marylanders may soon have to pay more at the pump, more at the store and more income taxes under Gov. Martin O?Malley?s plan to raise taxes to offset the state?s $1.5 billion deficit.

“None of this is going to be easy,” O?Malley said on WYPR radio last week.”We need to move on to the really unpleasant and unpopular questions of how we reform our tax code. Over the last several years, we have a tax code that has become less progressive and more regressive. I think we can do better.”