General Assembly approves gas tax hike (MD brags no new taxes in budget, then raises gas tax .20)

Baltimore Sun ^ | March 29, 2013 | By Michael Dresser

[icwhatudo]

The Maryland General Assembly gave final approval Friday to Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposed gas tax increase...

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By mid-2016, unless Congress allows states to tax Internet sales, motorists in Maryland are likely to be paying an estimated 20 cents a gallon more in taxes than the current 23.5-cents rate that has been in effect since 1992. ---snip---

"particular scorn for the part of the bill that allows the gas tax to increase automatically with inflation."

[icwhatudo]

Maryland democrats stole millions from the transportation trust fund to pay for their social programs.

Then they passed a spending increase in the budget and bragged there were no tax increases in it.

Then a week later they pass this 20cent a gallon increase in gas taxes to "replenish the transportation trust fund".

LOLOLOLOLOL

[Graybeard58]

Democrats being democrats.

[GreyFriar]

taxes, more taxes peasant! give us the taxes we demand to support us and those who don’t work but keep voting us back into office.

[icwhatudo]

O’Malley, the governor of Maryland, is starting to make noise as a possible candidate for DEM nomination in 2016. He will most likely be on Hillary’s short list for VP.

He is an extreme Nancy Pelosi type “(c)atholic” politician that supports abortion and homosexual marriage. His schtick is that he plays in a band and acts all urban young yuppie returning to the city with his bike and water bottle as he recycles yada yada yada

[Venturer]

There are Democrats in Maryland who would vote for a dog turd if it were running on the Democrat ticket.

When you would vote for a dog turd, you get one. Meet Martin O’Malley.

He didn’t take my county.Neither did Steny Hoyer or Obama.

Too bad we are so filled with Washington DC immigrants and not enough rednecks.

[lowbridge]

bump

[zot]

Yeah, this is what happens when Democrats own the state.

[dhs12345]

People are stupid and will probably believe it.

[silverleaf]

oh and its pegged to "inflation" to rise automatically just think of the excellent roads and bridges we will now have..... that fewer of us can afford to use

[ExCTCitizen]

Congress allows states to tax Internet sales,

If you want to see the economy fall... tax internet sales...

General Assembly approves gas tax hike (MD brags no new taxes in budget, then raises gas tax .20)

Isn't gas taxes a TAX, Morons in MD?

[Standing Wolf]

There are Democrats in Maryland who would vote for a dog turd if it were running on the Democrat ticket.

I sure don't mean to quibble, Venturer, but the proper term is "dog obama."

[Venturer]

I bow to your superior linguistic abilities.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Futhermore, if you think the roads will be improved, there will be more LOL for you. At least half of transportation proceeds - those which are not stolen for plugging budget holes - goes to mass transit.

Gouged at the pump for Owe'Malleys buses and choo-choos. I will buy some of my gas in Virginia from now on, when I'm down there.

Maryland "Freak State" PING!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Once SB 281 is signed into law — face it, it’s gonna happen —, Owe’Malley shouldn’t bother to run as President, because there will not be enough low-info voters to save him from all the angry gun-owners that will go to the polls to defeat him.

Land of Disarmed Peasant Living.