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SPATES v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY

No. 1440 September Term, 1990.

87 Md. App. 590 (1991)

590 A.2d 1074

ALFRED W. SPATES v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 4, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Lawlor (Lawlor & Pappadeas, P.A., on the brief), Silver Spring, for appellant.

Kaye Brooks Bushel, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee, State.

David J. Frankel, Asst. County Atty. (Joyce R. Stern, County Atty. and H. Christopher Malone, Sr. Asst. County Atty., on the brief), Rockville, for appellees.

Argued before WILNER, C.J., and WENNER, J., and WILLIAM M. CAVE, Judge (Specially Assigned).

WILNER, Chief Judge.

"Taxes," said Justice Holmes in dissent, "are what we pay for civilized society...." Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector, Etc., 275 U.S. 87, 100, 48 S.Ct. 100, 105, 72 L.Ed. 177 (1927). The necessity — and certainty — of taxes does nothing to increase their popularity, however. People pay them, but not without grumbling.

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