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MD’ers Fleeing from State and Local Taxes? Not So Fast.

While anti-tax groups like to draw on diffuse arguments that Maryland’s state and local tax levels are driving people out of the state, the evidence says otherwise.  Recently, Center Maryland posted an article citing a recent Gallup poll finding that,

The War on Poverty at 50

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, a set of federal policies that President Johnson announced in his 1964 State of the Union Address. This anniversary provides us with the opportunity to consider the impact and implications