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not retroactive. It was retroactive in effect, but not

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retroactive in deductions, and I submit that many of our

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people including some of our rich members are gong to have

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to find large sums of money to pay their tax bills.

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Furthermore, we are confronted with an imminent

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Federal tax increase and with the great competition for the

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tax dollar, I feel that nothing will more infuriate the

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people of this State than to think that this Constitutional

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Convention was nothing more than a salary grab.

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I can see the justification not because of my

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own personal interest in it, but for the increase in the

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legislative salary because I feel that it is a modest

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increase. It is raising the level of legislators where

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most people in the State feel they ought to be, but when you

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raise the judicial salaries and the executive salaries I

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can see very bad omens on the horizons and I feel that we

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have accomplished much too much good to have the Constitution

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fall on the pocketbook issue.

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I would like to point out to you that Allegany

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County voted overwhelmingly against the lax increase,

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Calvert County, Baltimore, Carroll County, Dorchester