OPINION:
The Maryland legislature must wake up now in regard to its projected $300 billion deficit. Tens of thousands of stores will close nationwide in 2025. The state legislature needs to stop acting like a bunch of ostriches with their heads in the sand.
We do not have a budget problem; we have a spending problem. Maryland’s legislature is writing checks the state economy cannot possibly fund in the next five years. The government must review what former Gov. Schaefer did back in the 1990s. Anne Arundel County Executive Bobby Neale was heavily involved with those solutions, in which all 24 jurisdictions had to give back county dollars. All school boards, county executives and county councils had to make major cuts.
The governor and state legislature need to bring in a paid consultant. I’m sure he or she will say there are no sacred cows; all things are on the chopping block. All open state-government jobs should be eliminated.
TOM TWOMBLY
Glen Burnie, Maryland
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