
On Thursday, October 16, 2008, the Maryland Thursday Meeting will host its eighty-fifth** gathering in Annapolis. In 2008, the Maryland Thursday Meeting is probing a variety of Maryland fiscal and values concerns. These include the profound consequences for prosperity and property rights of the recommendations of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change; the Maryland tax burden - - - from the state death tax to the just repealed computer-services tax to the proposed slots tax, and how the tax burden drives our entrepreneurs and tax-producers to other states; the attack of the Maryland Education Cartel on public charter schools; the Montgomery County Transgender Law and similar assaults on traditional values; the fiscal, civic, and cultural costs of making Maryland a magnet state for illegals; and homeland defense. The Maryland Thursday Meeting is an invitational and off-the-record gathering of center-right activists and organizations across Maryland. Ours is one of around fifty such state center-right coalitions across the U.S. Guests and newcomers can get a better understanding of what the Maryland Thursday Meeting aims to accomplish and our Rules of the Road by clicking here.
The Thursday Meeting does not promulgate any orthodoxy. Rather it is a center-right coalition seeking common ground and actionable items. We begin promptly at 8 AM; doors open at 7:45 AM; the Thursday Meeting serves hot coffee and bagels.xxxx ----------
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_______________ See PHOTOS from the July 10 meeting. --SEE PHOTOS from EARLIER MEETINGS. --See recent AGENDAS. KEY
DOCUMENTS for the Center-Right: --Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, Senate Bill, Final Text, 10/1/08 (substitute for H.R. 1424). --
Financial Markets: An Alternative Economic Rescue Plan H.R.
7223, Rep.
Jeb Hensarling, September 30,
2008 --RSC Alternative to Bailout Bill, 9/29/08. --Bailout Bill -- William M. Isaac's Alternative, 9/28/08. --Bailout Bill -- "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008," Discussion Draft, 9/28/08. --Bailout Bill--Section-by-Section Analysis, 9/28/08. --The
Paulson Bailout Plan: Hensarling Statement,
Alternatives, & Financial Markets, September 23, 2008. --Energy policy. August 19, 2008 group letter to the "Gang of 10:" "... redraft the bipartisan Senate energy plan to prevent further harm to the U.S. economy and its citizens." Click here. --Votes
on state spending. Operating budget click here
and here;
capital budget click here
and here.
--Housing crisis. Click here. --Gun
rights: Click here.
--Slots tax amendment. Click here. --"Climate change" schemes. Click here and here and here. Also click here for Clough summary from May 8 meeting. --Deconstructing mega-county taxes and spending. Click here. --Conservatives and education: Click here. ALEC: "Rich States Poor States." Click here. --Multiculturalism and Cultural Marxism, William S. Lind. Click here. --All special web documents.
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