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measures prepared and intends
81 Senators decide which, if
either, they want to accompany
the teachers pay bill.
Identical teachers pay bills
were to be introduced last Friday
in both the Senate and House,
but Senator Goldstein pulled
them back at the last minute
He explained it had been agreed
at a meeting of legislative lead
ers and school officials that the
pay bill should be accompanied
by a revenue measure sufficient
to finance it.
40 Signed as Sponsors
Senator Goldstein is one of
nine Senators who have agreed
to sponsor the teachers pay bill,
being promoted here by the State
Department of Education, the
State Teachers Association and
the Maryland PTAS. Forty mine
delegates have signed on as
sponsors of the House version.
calling for $500 increases in State
teacher salary minimum next
year and another $400 the fol-
lowing year. They would cost
an estimated $11 million next
fiscal year and $22 million by
the second year.
State teacher pay minimums
now range from $4,000 to 81, 800.
However. all % counties and
Baltimore City supplement- these
minimums in varying amounts.
the highest being the $500
starting minimums paid by
Baltimore City and Baltimore,
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties.
According to estimates in the
Governors budget message for
next fiscal year, State sales and
use taxes are expected to yield
$50.4 million. The individual
income tax is expected to bring
in $32.7 million.
Would Increase Rates
The bills Senator Goldstein has
had drafted would increase the
rates of these two levies from
to 8 per cent. Thus, the sales ta2
yield would be expected to in.
crease by about $25 million with
an additional SIG million or so II
prospect from a 3 per cent in.
come tax rate.
With a 3 per cent sales tax, thu
Legislature could pass the teach
er's pay bill, provide the $6.9 mil.
lion needed to balance the Gov.
ernor's budget and still have
about 81 million leftover.
However, the eight Democratic
Eastern Shore Senators have
traditionally resisted sales taz
increases. Their eight votes cou.
pied with the eight Republicans
could defeat a sales tax increase
McKeldin Proposal
Gov. McKeldin has proposed a
State tax of 5 cents per pack or
cigarettes and from 2 to 4 cents
on cigars to balance his budget
with almost two-thirds of the SIS
million return being related to
Baltimore City and the counties
Senator GoldStein and some
other Southern Maryland Demo-
Gratis have spoken out against the
tobacco products tax as being po-
tentiaily harmful to Southern
Maryland tobacco growers.
The income tax increase
would not quite raise enough tc
finance the teacher pay bill ano
balance the Governors budget
as it now stands. but lawmakers
are discussing the possibility Of
trimming the budget and per-
haps giving school teachers
something less than they are
asking.
The House Democrats. who
outnumber Republicans SO to 25
caucused yesterday and adopted
a resolution pledging to work
INCREASINGLY for the elimination
Of waste and extravaganza from
the Governors 1858 million
budget"
Decline to Go On Record
The caucus declined to con-
slider a motion from Delegate
Henry H. Hanna of Wicomico
chairman of the Eastern Shore
delegation, to go on record ia
voring economy.
The 10 Southern Maryland
Democratic Delegates from Anne
Arundel, Howard, Prince Georges
Calvert. Charles and st. Mary's
Counties caucused earlier ano
elected Perry o. Wilkinson Of
Prince Georges as chairman fol
future meetings on mutual prob
lens.
The House yesterday enacted
81 to 10, the bill authorizing