The falsely named fair share bill was halted yet again in Federal Court. A federal appeals court agreed with the lower court that the fair share law was inappropriate and unconstitutional. Here is the actual legal speak decision (PDF), and this is the Retail Industry Leaders Association's reaction, and this is the NY Times press release.
Maryland attempted to extort money from the successful Wal-Mart by forcing a law that applied to any large employer, even though Wal-Mart was the only one that qualified under the guidelines. What a sad misuse of legislative powers and authority. If you want to help those Wal-Mart employees, cut their taxes.
In Maryland we are being gouged by many taxes, such as a Gas and Electric charge designed to offset a normal industry increase which was kept from us by an artificial ceiling adjustment. It ended, and was not renewed by lawmakers. So they created this "temporary" 10 year tax which was forced on us taxpayers without us signing any agreement to allow a loan against our monthly bill to offset the increase. The "relief tax"is sure to be extended when the artificial ceiling is below the actual costs of the resources we use.
How about cutting the Maryland Gasoline tax of 23.5 cents a gallon!
If you read this article by John Stiglich, you will see we have something in common, we both deeply believe that Wal-Mart is an American Success Story! John must be a reader of Weblinksnewsletter!
