Baltimore, Md. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will seek to raise the city's bottle tax from 2 cents to 5 cents as part of a plan to boost funding for school construction and repairs, according to The Baltimore Sun. For the full story, click here.
Editor’s Insight: According to this report, this tax increase will not go very far in addressing the city needs to upgrade the public schools.
The tax will also disproportionately fall on lower income consumers, who pay more of their income for daily necessities. The responsible course of action is to ask the general public to support a tax for the improvements needed rather than targeting a tax on a particular product. 11-14-11 By Elliot Maras
