Legislative Salaries Increases Derailed

In response to harsh Republican opposition and taxpayer outrage, the Democrat leadership of the Maryland General Assembly issue a statement today and conceded that their will be no proposals to increase legislative compensation over the next four-year term.

Senate Minority Leader Allan Kittleman issued the following statement with regard to the recommendations of the Maryland General Assembly Compensation Commission:

“With so much hardship facing Maryland’s taxpayers, now is not the time for legislators to consider pay increases or other enhanced compensation. Unfortunately, historic tax increases and bad policy decisions by Governor O’Malley has significantly added to the fiscal burden that has been placed on Maryland’s citizens.  While Republican legislators have strongly opposed this “tax and spend” mentality, the Democrat majority has rubber-stamped the O’Malley agenda instead of stopping this economic “piling on” of our fiscally-stressed taxpayers. Maryland taxpayers are absolutely correct when they express their outrage on this process.”