Gov. Wes Moore opened the 2026 legislative year with a frank admission: Maryland was staring down a $1.5 billion structural shortfall, and the FY2027 budget would be a low-growth exercise in triage. No new taxes. Painful cuts. A lot of difficult conversations in Annapolis. And yet sitting right there in the policy drawer, unlocked and untouched, was a revenue source that New Jersey and Pennsylvania had already used to transform their fiscal pict…
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