I’m pretty sure my taxable income will be under the level where I would have gotten punished.” PUNISHED. His reaction to the top rate rising to 39% along with the California State tax increase due to Proposition 30 prompted him to say, “Whew, I think I dodged a bullet! I was up for a promotion with a pay raise but someone else got it. We were all talking about the fiscal cliff and how it would affect people making over $250K a year. He is a college graduate with a business degree and fortunately has a job. I was shocked by something I heard from one of my friend’s sons the other day. Marylanders are in dire need of jobs - and fast. Thus our county only gained revenue ground for 21 returns or realized a net income gain in state & local tax revenue of $23,136 over the past year - even despite a local income tax rate increase.įY 2010 Total State & Local Tax Revenue - $93,759,616įY 2011 Total State & Local Tax Revenue - $93,782,752 Of these 380 returns - (reporting income) - 359 of those did not pay any MD state/local income tax. Over the past fiscal year - (2010 - 2011) - the total number of income tax returns being filed over this period increased by 380 returns. Some individuals still do file a return, but usually for purposes of claiming a refund on withholding payments or to claim the Earned Income Credit. Essentially, if a resident falls below a certain income threshold, they are not legally required to file a Maryland return. Take a look at the results another way - Maryland has a filing threshold. Our area needs jobs and lots of them in order to help sustain our community. This has resulted in diminished federal, state, & local income tax revenues, and, a sign of a very weak local economy.
Thus our net state/local income tax paying base has only risen by only 2,182 returns - although our county's population has increased by approximately 14,834 residents.īottom line - our local area workforce has dwindled dramatically and not kept pace with the population growth.
Of that amount - the number of Non-Taxable State/Local Income tax returns have grown by 3,214. You will notice that over the course of the past 11 years - (FY 2000 - FY 2011) - the total number of State/Local Income tax returns have grown by 5,396.
“Given Washington's fiscal woes, American taxpayers should no longer be Egypt’s major arms supplier.” officials in an embarrassing position of having supplied massive amounts of military hardware … to both belligerents,” said Malou Innocent, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute. “Should an overreaction spiral into a broader conflict between Egypt and Israel, such a scenario would put U.S. But given the uncertainty in Cairo, some critics wonder if it is wise to be sending more top gun planes. The North African nation already has a fleet of more than 200 of the planes and the latest shipment merely fulfills an order placed two years ago. 22, a source at the naval air base in Fort Worth, where the planes have been undergoing testing, told. The first four jets are to be delivered to Egypt beginning Jan. from sending more than 20 F-16 fighter jets, as part of a $1 billion foreign aid package. Instability in Egypt, where a newly-elected Islamic government teeters over an angry population, isn't enough to stop the U.S. Indeed, if only the “extreme and integral fringe” supports this sadistic and vicious crime against women, and if it is “not a rule set in a rigid manner by the precepts of Islam,” then where are all the Muslim imams, muftis and clerics in the world, and in Indonesia in particular, vociferously denouncing and repudiating this crime as un-Islamic and coming to the defense of Muslim women?
In her coverage of this news report, freedom fighter Pamela Geller shrewdly asks the key question that somehow mysteriously eludes the minds of every breathing human being in our mainstream media: “The fringe made it widespread?” Asia News recently reported how the misogynist crime of female genital mutilation (FGM) continues to be a “widespread traditional practice” in “rural areas and more remote areas of Indonesia, particularly the island of Java.” The story makes sure to remind us, naturally, that while this crime is being perpetrated in a Muslim country, the crime “is not a rule set ina rigid manner by the precepts of Islam.” It is only widespread, we are consoled, because of the actions of “the more extreme and integral fringe.”
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