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McDonnell: No gas tax during recession
WTOP ^ | January 31, 2012 | WTOP

Posted on 02/02/2012 1:59:27 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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Actually means "no gas tax INCREASE during recession"
1 posted on 02/02/2012 1:59:30 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; cindy-true-supporter; ...
From article:

This is starkly contrasted against the policy in Maryland. When asked on WTOP on Monday if restaurants and bars should be held accountable [for drunk driving mishaps], O'Malley answered simply, "absolutely."

What a d*ck.

Maryland "Freak State" PING!

2 posted on 02/02/2012 2:01:31 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

And there lies, for all to see, the difference between Virginia and Maryland. We like to keep MD around just to remind ourselves what the dark side looks like.


3 posted on 02/02/2012 2:24:42 AM PST by ScottinVA (Liberal logic: 0bamacare mandate is acceptable... but voter IDs are unconstitutional.Oh, let me gues)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Liberals love it because it’s always someone else’s fault.


4 posted on 02/02/2012 2:46:31 AM PST by commonguymd (Freedom is a myth anymore it seems)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Martin O’Moron is vying to beat out Parris Spendenning for the title of worst governor of Maryland. May well make it too.


5 posted on 02/02/2012 2:56:11 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We’re pretty pleased with our governor and it would be nice to keep him around to see his programs through...but Virgina only allows one four year term and he’s out. Too bad that’s not the rule for everyone in Congress. The job started out being part-time before the members turned it into the alternate welfare system.


6 posted on 02/02/2012 3:07:41 AM PST by Portcall24
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Is the Maryland transportation fund raided for other projects?


7 posted on 02/02/2012 3:32:48 AM PST by Explorer89 (And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
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despite a significant demand for more transit projects.

Demand for what, more light rail?
8 posted on 02/02/2012 3:33:22 AM PST by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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Is the Maryland transportation fund raided for other projects?

Thank you for helping me start my day with rip roaring laughter here in suburban Maryland.

Of course it has and for a very long time. Though the dems if pressed real hard would argue that the stolen funds given to such groups as Casa de Maryland benefit the transportation of illegal aliens from Meh-hicko and other states to this socialist corner of the USA and therefore should be consider as licit use of said fund.

9 posted on 02/02/2012 3:55:58 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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The couple of times I’ve been to Maryland (on business) I crossed the Potomac on Hwy. 301 on the Nice bridge (apparently named after a former MD Governor). There’s a toll on the bridge. You have to pay to LEAVE Maryland, but not to enter it.

I live in VA.


10 posted on 02/02/2012 3:59:27 AM PST by fredhead (Vegetarian - Old Indian word for poor hunter.)
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Maryland owns the Potomac to the Virginia shoreline. They own the bridge and the tollbooths.


11 posted on 02/02/2012 4:07:24 AM PST by palmer (Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
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To: fredhead

Yep! Maybe there`s a streak of capitalism in the MD DNA after all... charging for something that`s high in demand.. in this case, LEAVING the state.

BTW, I`ve lived in the Hampton Roads since 1995. I enjoy Virginia.


12 posted on 02/02/2012 4:35:58 AM PST by ScottinVA (Liberal logic: 0bamacare mandate is acceptable... but voter IDs are unconstitutional.Oh, let me gues)
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Other than the fact that he endorsed Romney and is implementing toll booths all over east VA I like him.


13 posted on 02/02/2012 4:52:24 AM PST by albie
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Lmo56
I saw O malley on the local News at the gym and he said us voters won't mind a gas tax increase as long as it's 'fair' . That is code for "I will give you another 'tax the rich chaser' so you can swallow yet ANOTHER middle class tax increase by me". And he uses the word 'help out' to describe his tax increases.

This is why Democrats raise taxes on 'the rich': Not to collect more revenue but to make their tax increases on us 'fair'.

It also said his job approval rating is so high here >60% because of women and minorities.

14 posted on 02/02/2012 5:53:51 AM PST by sickoflibs (You MUST support the lesser of two RINOs or we all die!)
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To: ScottinVA

Navy sent me to Norfolk in 1979. I never left. However, if there was employment available, I move back to eastern NC where I grew up or east/middle TN where Mom was from in a heartbeat.


15 posted on 02/02/2012 7:29:50 AM PST by fredhead (Vegetarian - Old Indian word for poor hunter.)
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Love the drunk driving comment from the dimlib gov of MD - speaking of the 301 bridge over the Potomac, the first thing you see on the MD side, going north, is a liquor store! And that bridge is one of the scariest, ricketiest bridges I’ve driven on...
God bless our VA gov - he “gets” it and the state funds reflect it...
with gas prices sky rocketing, who would put a higher tax on it?...libdim MD govs, it appears...sheesh


16 posted on 02/02/2012 7:41:23 AM PST by matginzac
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There’s another aptly names bridge in northern MD. The Hatem Bridge. They hate me each time they make me pay a toll to cross their stupid bridge.


17 posted on 02/02/2012 9:20:49 AM PST by cyclotic (People who live within their means are increasingly being forced to pay for people who didn't.)
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To: cyclotic

Oops Names = named


18 posted on 02/02/2012 9:23:30 AM PST by cyclotic (People who live within their means are increasingly being forced to pay for people who didn't.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

You’re just discovering this?

I recall seeing a F&F a few weeks ago with Lil’Marty on and Gretchen commented about the lawsuits Holder and Co. was doing against several states (Ariz, AL, SC) and, as the camera was cutting away, Lil’Marty said “they should have” [instituted the lawsuits].

Thus showeth the velvet gloved fist of the State.


19 posted on 02/02/2012 10:39:23 AM PST by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Marc Levin)
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To: Explorer89

It’s raided to allegedly balance the budget.


20 posted on 02/02/2012 3:05:02 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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