Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Anyone ever get the impression, that, no matter what “revenue sources/taxes/fees” are put in place, that some will say it’s just never enough, to achieve whatever laudable goal they have?
It sounds as if they want to go after federal money, since they won’t be getting any new state or local funding for their projects.
We hear examples of this a lot.
Remember Porkulus from Obama’s first term? The liberal view of the failures of Porkulus were that we just didn’t devote enough money to it.
How often have we heard, that problems in schools are due to us not spending enough?
The whole war on poverty thing, with numerous federal programs, even though trillions have been spent over the decades, the liberals say we just haven’t spent enough on the various anti poverty programs to fight poverty.
No matter what we do, someone, usually on the liberal side, will claim that we aren’t spending enough to do the job properly.
Have the people that use it pay for it.
Radical concept.
Train, bus, taxi, private car, truck, highway, local road . . . you use. You pay for it.
In addition, both Maryland and Virginia have said they aren’t going to help make up the $40 million loss to The Metro bus and subway system DC has caused by making fare jumping essentially legal.