A coalition of Maryland environmentalists Thursday released a report identifying eight new or increased fees, taxes and initiatives they said could generate $706 million by 2009 to reduce the state?s projected $1.5 billion structural deficit.
Organizers acknowledge the outlined strategies are hardly innovative: More than 75 percent of the suggested savings come from abandoning the InterCounty Connector project, which Gov. Martin O?Malley consistently has said he will back with funds from the transportation trust ? not from the operating budget.
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