20071024 Dan Gainor: Brewing up a contest to mock tax tricks

Commentary by Dan Gainer, The Examiner, October 23, 2007

Dan Gainor: Brewing up a contest to mock tax tricks

BALTIMORE -

Trick or treat?

OK, in Gov. Martin O’Malley’s Maryland, we only get one choice — more than $1 billion in new taxes. That’s not exactly a treat. Two days before Halloween, the governor will knock on every door in the state demanding goodies.

This isn’t an innocent Charlie Brown, with a small bag, begging for treats. O’Malley has the power to scare the legislature into a special session — the second session in one year. (Each rebroadcast of the “Great Pumpkin” is called a rerun. I guess that makes this a re-session. How appropriate.)

I’d be lying if I said we’re likely to stop this tax terror…

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A contest, that is.

Since the governor is holding his session at such an ironic time, let’s take advantage of it. I want you, the readers of this column, to come up with suggestions for the right costume O’Malley should wear presiding over such an epic abuse of power during Halloween.

I’ve used a lot of metaphors for our good governor during the past year. Jesse James was my favorite. Forrest Gump got me an e-mail complaint from the state Democratic Party. And I personally saw the governor in what I think was a War of 1812 officer’s costume at a Ravens charity event a couple of years ago.

So you have to do better than those. The idea should be fun and humorous, and tweak the nose of a man leading his state down the path to tax suicide. No overly mean comments will be allowed. (I get to make all of those.) Send your entries to gainorcolumn AT gmail.com. Deadline is Saturday at the witching hour — midnight.

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Dan Gainor can be seen each week on Thursday afternoons on the new Fox Business Network. He is The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow at the Media Research Center’s Business & Media Institute, a career journalist and media commentator. He can be reached at gainorcolumn@gmail.com.

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