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1	of persons owning property, or with respect to any particul
2	uses of property, I think the provisions of tax exemption
3	or I would hope credits and abatements would be uniform
4	State-wide.
5	I think that the State of Maryland should not
6	enact legislation in behalf of or for or .to any political
7	subdivision which removes from them the right to make
8	decisions which are essentially local in character with
9	respect to tax policy.
10	Let me give you an example. Even seeming aspects
11	of uniformity are not uniform in their results. You have a
12	law that says that blind people are entitled to $6,000 of
15	exemption on their homes. This is uniform. Every blind
14	person throughout the State who owns a home is entitled
15	to this. In the present situation, it is uniform, but it
16	is foolish, because people with greater disability than
17	blindness, a completely paralyzed man, for example, is not
18	given the benefit of this kind of tax treatment.
19	We have an arbitrary but uniform State-wide
20	law and I would suggest if it is possible in your wisdom to
21	devise the language, the result of which would be to aim