{"id":2288234,"date":"2024-07-02T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hogan-challenges-alsobrooks-to-disavow-marylands-recent-tax-and-fee-increases-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:44:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T22:44:55","slug":"hogan-challenges-alsobrooks-to-disavow-marylands-recent-tax-and-fee-increases-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hogan-challenges-alsobrooks-to-disavow-marylands-recent-tax-and-fee-increases-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogan challenges Alsobrooks to disavow Maryland\u2019s recent tax and fee increases &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhogan-challenges-alsobrooks-to-disavow-marylands-recent-tax-and-fee-increases-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2288234&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200d article is about former Republican Maryland Governor Larry Hogan challenging his Senate opponent, Angela Alsobrooks, to disavow recent tax\u200d and fee increases \u2063in Maryland.\u2063 Hogan accuses Alsobrooks of supporting these increases and calls on her to reverse her stance. The article details the tax and \u200cfee \u200dhikes that have taken effect and highlights the ongoing political battle between Hogan and Alsobrooks. Hogan\u2064 presents himself as a taxpayer \u200dadvocate with a record of balancing budgets without resorting to tax increases. The article \u2062also mentions Alsobrooks&#8217;s response to Hogan&#8217;s letter, where she defends her record on economic investment and commitment to reducing \u200ccosts for Maryland families. The article provides insight into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-gop-rivals-are-all-running-for-a-job-in-his-administration\/\" title=\"Trump claims GOP rivals are vying for positions in his administration.\">ongoing political dynamics<\/a> in Maryland and the high-stakes Senate race between Hogan and Alsobrooks.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i 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class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/zachary-halaschak\/\">Zachary Halaschak<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-02T17:55:44-04:00\">July 2, 2024 5:55 pm<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1690696\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE \u2014<\/strong> Former Republican Maryland Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/larry-hogan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Larry Hogan<\/a> has penned an open letter to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Senate<\/a> opponent, Angela Alsobrooks, calling on her to disavow a slate of recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>tax<\/a> and fee increases in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/maryland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Maryland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, first obtained by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, Hogan accuses Alsobrooks, who is the executive of Prince George\u2019s County, of backing the slate of increases, which stem from the Democratic-controlled state legislature and through the state\u2019s Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am writing you today to ask you to reverse your support of these new tax and fee hikes and stand with your constituents by joining with me to oppose them,\u201d Hogan wrote. \u201cThe burden of these regressive taxes and fees will be paid by the struggling Marylanders who can least afford them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Maryland families already facing the unaffordable cost of living, this is the last thing they need right now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted for comment about the letter, Alsobrooks\u2019s communications director touted her tenure as executive of Prince George\u2019s County, which is the second-largest county in the state. The spokeswoman said Alsobrooks has brought \u201crecord economic investment without raising taxes at the county level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Senate, she\u2019ll fight to reduce costs for hardworking Maryland families all while making sure big corporations pay their fair share,\u201d the spokeswoman said. \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s critical that Angela Alsobrooks has the 51st vote in the Senate to hold these massive corporations accountable because Mitch McConnell and Larry Hogan would give those corporations a massive tax break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of the tax and fee hikes referenced in Hogan\u2019s letter took effect on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Tuesday missive is the first open letter of this kind that Hogan has written to Alsobrooks since his campaign for Senate launched in February. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voters-head-to-polls-in-herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-georgia-senate-runoff\/\" title=\"Voters Head to Polls in Herschel Walker-Raphael Warnock Georgia Senate Runoff\">high-stakes race<\/a> has been closely watched given Hogan\u2019s popularity in the state and Alsobrooks\u2019s primary victory over Rep. David Trone (D-MD) despite him dumping tens of millions of dollars of his own money into the race.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Hogan mentions 338 new tax and fee increases. That is a reference to a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/marylandreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/TAXES-MOORE-FEES-Final.pdf\">report<\/a> put out by Republicans in the Maryland Senate and House of Delegates, which has a running list of tax and fee increases imposed under Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD), who succeeded Hogan and was sworn into office last year.<\/p>\n<p>Among the changes are increases in vehicle registration fees, which Hogan\u2019s letter said \u201ccould hike the cost of buying a used vehicle by thousands of dollars\u201d and tax increases on tobacco products. There is also a new fee on Uber and Lyft rides, among dozens of other increases, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/marylandreporter.com\/2024\/06\/09\/governor-wes-moore-administration-imposes-338-new-or-increased-taxes-and-fees\/\">op-ed<\/a> about the report, the joint Republican caucus said that while Moore didn\u2019t propose the increases, he also didn\u2019t veto them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we appreciated his original commitment to hold back some of the more egregious tax plans that his Democratic partners in the General Assembly were championing, he has now signed some of these tax increases into law,\u201d the Republicans said.<\/p>\n<p>In Hogan\u2019s Tuesday letter, he also takes aim at Alsobrooks directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of the massive deficit in Prince George\u2019s County, you have been openly talking about raising county taxes,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOn the campaign trail, you have been campaigning on a promise to raise Marylanders Social Security taxes. It is simply unconscionable that you would support subjecting your constituents to tax hikes on the local, state, and federal levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hogan has painted himself as a taxpayer advocate and has touted his record of balancing the budget as governor while avoiding painful tax increases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t have a single tax increase for eight years, the entire time I was governor, and we turned a record $5.1 billion deficit, the worst in Maryland history, into a $5.5 billion record surplus which was the largest in history,\u201d Hogan said during a recent campaign event where he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3060700\/hogan-outlines-affordability-agenda-key-race-senate\/\">unveiled his affordability agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the federal level, Hogan has said he wants to champion the child tax credit and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-wall-street-journal-slams-biden-and-dems-build-back-better-price-tag-is-lie-of-the-year\/\" title=\"The Wall Street Journal Slams Biden And Dems: Build Back Better Price Tag Is \u2018Lie Of The Year\u2019\">earned-income tax credit<\/a>. The former governor also wants to index housing gains and Social Security taxes to inflation in the tax code, according to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He also said he wants to reauthorize a higher standard deduction and eliminate the cap on the deduction for state and local taxes paid, known as the SALT cap.<\/p>\n<p>The federal deduction for SALT was capped at $10,000 by the 2017 Republican tax overhaul, and the cap applies to individual and married filers. Changes to the SALT CAP \u2014 namely, raising it or removing it \u2014 have long been a priority for Republicans in high-tax states.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan is facing a tough battle against Alsobrooks in a state that hasn\u2019t been represented by a Republican in the Senate since 1987.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He would likely assume the centrist mantle in the Senate that is being left by retiring Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV). During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3062232\/hogan-invokes-manchin-in-senate-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>recent interview<\/a> with the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, Hogan noted that he previously served as the national co-chairman for third-party movement No Labels, which Manchin was rumored to be a top prospect for, and \u201cworked very closely\u201d with him.<\/p>\n<p>A <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em> aggregate of polls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/senate\/general\/2024\/maryland\/hogan-vs-alsobrooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shows<\/a> Alsobrooks with a nine-point lead over Hogan.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"7_1 Alsobrooks Letter-3 (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/747385439\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-spNSmd38JAtVxKChl80k\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_19726\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1690696\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1690696\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has written a letter to his Senate opponent, Angela Alsobrooks, urging her to denounce recent tax and fee increases in Maryland. Hogan accuses Alsobrooks of supporting these increases, which he believes will burden struggling Maryland residents. Alsobrooks&#8217;s communications director defended her record of economic investment without tax hikes at the county level and emphasized her commitment to reducing costs for Maryland families. Hogan&#8217;s letter references 338 new tax and fee increases, including vehicle registration fees and taxes on tobacco products. He criticizes Alsobrooks for considering raising county and Social Security taxes, and highlights his own record of balancing the budget without tax increases during his time as governor. Hogan is facing an uphill battle against Alsobrooks in the Senate race, with polls showing her currently leading by nine points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2683,"featured_media":2288235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hogan-letter-alsobrooks.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32427,33734,5864,4837,33733],"class_list":["post-2288234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-alsobrooks","tag-fee-increases","tag-hogan","tag-maryland","tag-tax-increases"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hogan-letter-alsobrooks.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}