"Maryland Is Under ASSAULT" - Gov. Wes Moore SLAMS Trump's Federal Worker MASSACRE
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Wes Moore touts new wins like AstraZeneca’s largest Maryland investment in a decade, Samsung Biologics’ first US plant and a second Vegas Sphere coming to Prince George’s County, arguing targeted incentives plus elite education can pull companies from New York and California.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so let me ask you. I just looked up right now where you rank in the highest in taxes, right? |
| 0:03.7 | Your ranks eighth to 12th, somewhere around there as the highest taxes in America, 10 or 11% tax burden. |
| 0:12.1 | Okay, state income tax. |
| 0:13.4 | And look where it was four years ago. |
| 0:15.2 | Right, right. State income tax. So let me ask you this. Here's a question for you. |
| 0:20.2 | DeSantis here, I love him. He's phenomenal |
| 0:22.5 | as a governor. And, you know, we were living in Texas. We were happy with Texas. I escaped |
| 0:28.6 | California. I knew California did not like guys like us 10 years ago when we left. I just knew |
| 0:32.5 | that was going to be a problematic place. And now they're introduced to the well tax. |
| 0:39.8 | DeSantis is thinking about, he sits there and says, we have $31 billion we were getting every year from property tax. |
| 0:44.6 | Rob, can you pull up the number? He says, now I'm getting $63 billion. I don't need that additional |
| 0:48.0 | $31 billion or $33 billion, whatever the number is in surplus. I want to find a way to give |
| 0:53.0 | that back to Floridians. |
| 0:55.2 | Okay. So then he's starting to have conversations about eliminating taxes for Homestead. |
| 1:02.7 | Okay? Eliminating taxes for Homestead. |
| 1:05.1 | Yep. |
| 1:06.1 | Have you thought about a dramatic way of lowering taxes? So it attracts other people to come to you |
| 1:15.6 | because right now, if you think about where business owners are leaving, a lot of people are leaving |
| 1:22.3 | in New York because of what Mamdani is doing, what Hokka is doing. Ken Griffin is just having a meeting |
| 1:26.2 | with her right now. I think today or yesterday, the meeting was taking place saying, what are you guys talking about? Just targeting me. California is losing business owners because, you know, taxes and where they're at. What would you or could you do to work with taxes to start attracting others, especially in a blue state like yours, to get others to come in and say, |
| 1:45.0 | hey, I think we can get rid of following taxes to attract some business owners. What would you do? |
| 1:49.5 | So I think there's a few things that we can do and have done. One is you do need to make it a more |
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