We felt our elected leaders are not only not solving the serious problems, but that they’re actually causing some of the problems and making things worse, [Hogan] said. Hogan said he did not start Change Maryland looking to run for governor. But rather, he said, he and a handful of friends started it to bring fiscal responsibility and common sense to Annapolis... At the core of Hogan’s campaign to be governor is change. I didn’t run out of a desire to be something. It was more like I felt an obligation to try to do something, the 57-year-old said. I’m not a politician. I’m a business guy, and I do not like to over-promise and under-deliver, he said. Unless somehow you can wave a magic wand and the entire legislature changes over, and it is 100 percent conservative Republicans rather than two-thirds Democrats, you are not going to be able to eliminate the income tax. However, the state needs to look at reducing the income tax as well as corporate taxes, he said.
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 22:18:06 +0000