&lt;img src=&#039;http://assets.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/water%20bottle%20031710*100.jpg?v=1&#039;&gt;Opponents of Baltimore&rsquo;s 2-cent bottle tax continued on Thursday their push to have the tax ended a year early, saying it has cost the city jobs and resulted in lost sales for retailers.

Retailers, beverage industry representatives and workers at Coca-Cola&rsquo;s East Baltimore bottling plant turned out for a hearing before the City Council&rsquo;s Taxation, Finance and Economic Development committee in support of City Council Bill 10-343 that would end the controversial tax in June 2012. The tax was passed in June 2010 and is scheduled to expire in 2013...&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;
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