Flight happens: Don’t play Robin Hood, Maryland

Marylanders’ progressive political instincts often make the Land of Pleasant Living not just more pleasant but more equitable and prosperous. Sometimes, however, progressives embrace policies that are destined to do the opposite. So it is with the “Fair Share for Maryland Act of 2024.” Senate Bill 766 proposes to do a couple of laudable things but would, in fact, do several others that would damage Maryland’s economy and quality of life. As Comptroller Brooke Lierman has recently pointed out, there are “flashing yellow lights for the state’s fiscal health”; we shouldn’t turn them to red.