Maryland says it wants people to afford to live here. Then it taxes them out.

Maryland is bleeding residents to Virginia, Delaware, and the Carolinas, and taking billions in income with them, by the state's own count. The fix for one…

Maryland keeps saying it wants people to be able to afford to live here. Then it raises taxes, watches residents leave for Virginia and Delaware, and lets the bills that would help die in committee. Year after year. If you have lived in District 9A for twenty or thirty years, you can probably name the neighbors who left. The couple who sold the house and moved to Pennsylvania. The retired teacher who went to Delaware. The young family that gave up on ever affording a home here and headed to the Carolinas. They did not want to go. Their roots are here. But the math stopped working. This is not a feeling. The state's own numbers show it, and Annapolis keeps choosing not to fix it. The state keeps losing residents, and the income they carry This is not a rumor or a talking point. It is in the state's own data. Maryland has lost residents to other states year after year for more than a decade. Between 2020 and 2024 alone, a net total of more than 120,000 people left Maryland for other states than moved here from them. On the most recent national measure of how well states hold onto their residents, Maryland ranks 45th out of 50. The single year figures rise and fall, but the direction has not changed in a very long time, and neither has the reason. People are leaving for places where it costs less to live. This matters for more than just the count of neighbors. When a resident leaves, their entire contribution leaves with them. The income taxes, the property taxes, the money spent in local businesses, all of it follows them across the state line. Federal tax records show Maryland losing tens of thousands of income tax filing households to other states in a single recent year, with much of that money flowing to lower tax neighbors like Virginia, Delaware, and the Carolinas…