“Fundamentally, the question is: Do we think Maryland kids deserve good schools?" NO I SPEND ENOUGH MONEY TO EDUCATE OTHER PEOPLES CHILDREN

The only way to make America great again, is to educate America. Maryland Democrats are right. Without making a change, we will continue to get exactly the same educational results that have brought us to where we are today:

1. America is somewhere around 17th in the world at educating itself, and falling further behind the rest of the world.

2. 48% of voting Americans believe a mentally unstable, disgusting, narcissistic, reality show buffoon is worthy of being President.

3. America is losing its ability to compete in manufacturing. Without education, we will continue to lose our technological, engineering, and intellectual advantages. After that, we will be doomed to be taken advantage by the other, more superior countries of the world.

So, as we bicker and argue about spending more money on education, the future of the America we are leaving to our children and their children grows ever more bleak. Like the Roman Empire, future generations will read about the rise and fall of America.

It sounds like this proposal is to take care of the proliferation of immigrants (legal and not) in Maryland and, also, to try to remedy the crime element of the existing and would-be perps supposedly with no interest in living a responsible life. I'm guessing that the Dems' push to throw money at areas of low-income students where crime is more rampant would uplift those tendencies.

However, "No Child Left Behind" did not work in any meaningful way. Previously mentioned months ago, an old boyfriend found that out. He was a teacher in an inner city Charlotte, NC school, a (liberal) pastor, worked with homeless, and later an administrator in a Christian college (in Charlotte). He was one who thought that he could "make a difference." He got permanently injured and other disgusting things happened to him.

Citizens in Maryland cannot take on any further taxation and we shouldn't have to do so. The cost of living in this area is already through the roof. As I have said in previous posts, those (who I know with no medical issues) who can afford to make the move to other desirable types of places find that life goes on. In other words, there is nothing really that this area offers that is particularly extraordinary.

I am against any regressive tax and a sales tax is regressive. Also, the Governor's reasons for not supporting the bill are weak, he can and should be able to do better than that.

"He listed several services that would be taxed: dog walkers, landscaping, barbers and day care."   Dog walkers?  How many are companies and how much of that money ever gets reported?  And if you can't afford the sales tax, what are you doing hiring someone to walk your dog?  Landscaping is more likely to be taxed, but how many are done by someone other than a company?  Barbers?  Sure, you can tax them, but how often do you get a haircut?  Day care?  Does he mean for children?  And would that include pre kindergarten schools?  And he left out a host of them, such as grooming, grocery deliveries, etc.  It could be a long list.  Probably none of them know what would really happen.

Here's a way to solve this. Leave Sales Tax alone, implement Kirwan and put a special tax on politicians & teachers to cover the costs. Then sit back and see how valuable they think it is.

Such an amazing and insightful statement by Senator Young "Young said. “A lot of poor people got to get to work". Thank you Senator Young for your valuable leadership 🙄

Here is an idea. Stop giving tax breaks to those with children. If you're going to have children, pay for them. Meanwhile, they get a tax break while others without children pay for it.

instead of adding taxes how about raising the percentage of lottery money that was suppose to pay for the schools.

You can not buy student achievement !! Check the statistics. The lowest achievement is in the districts with the highest per pupil expenditures. Just give everyone more money, job done !! Thanks legislators, problem solved (again).

Here we are again. Politicians wanting to raise taxes for education. The Lottery. Gambling casinos. Politicians claimed taxes from both were going to eliminate education budgets shortfalls.

It's good the sales tax would be lowered to 5% (it should be 0%) which is a step in the right direction. But good heavens! They're going to tax dog walkers!! What evil people those Democrats are! Don't they know dog walkers should be exempt from sales tax, just like critical items like food??

Amazing but typical: Education achievement is plummeting across Maryland. The Kirwan Commission's recommendation- let's try to do everything else AND educate the children. How about we try to do well what we are responsible for doing rather than "fix" the problem by simply making it one of 15 services we deliver through schools? As has been pointed out here by my detractors, education is no guarantor of intelligence. Veto it Mr. Governor. God help us when he leaves- right Dick?

(Before Trump, Dick's first "the end is near" moment was when he was predicting the end of democracy in Maryland with Hogan's election. That guy (Dick) has been wrong so many time you'd think he'd have a "Paul on the road to Damascus" moment. Still waiting..............

Throwing billions at schools will not solve the problem. You don't get quality education by through money. You get quality education through good, qualified teachers and good parents who back them. I'm embarrassed to live in the state of Maryland. It used to be a great place but now Democrats are taxing the life out of everything. I'm thinking that Ron young is related to Mike Bloomberg with his sarcastic, arrogant remarks. Saying we can't tax auto mechanics because poor people have to get to work is a slap in the face to everyone in the state. Maryland has become California of the East Coast.

I know I'll work harder with a gun in my back for a bowl of rice a day but Larry... These are your new best buddies! Since you've been bent over so long, what is so upsetting about this???

Ah yes...the old “it’s for the children” routine. So make us feel good by lowering the tax 1% to where it was BUT tax just about everything now! What happened to all the “school” money that the state lottery was supposed to raise? And nowhere does the article state what amount of this new revenue will go towards the schools. It could be the whole amount (which I highly doubt) or it could be a measly $1.00 let’s have a “head” tax. The federal government states the average family has 2.2 kids. Let’s levy a tax on the families that have more so the families that have less don’t have to subsidize.