You heard the man: WE’RE DOOMED! Now shut up and open your wallets for mass transit!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Living in a state with a governor who is an anti-gas tax FANATIC (Texas), I can tell you that there are things worse than paying an extra 10 cents per gallon.
First, we had to deal with an INSANE plan to grab HUGE amounts of private land, just to hand over to private companies for monopoly-protected tolling (the plan has since been killed, more or less). Now we still deal with what should be freeways, but instead charge us 25 cents per mile to drive - for those mathematically challenged, figure it’s equivalent to paying $10 per gallon for gas, because that is what it comes out to for a typical car.
Yes, we all HATE gas taxes...but having governors that sell off highways and rights of way to foreign companies is not so great either. The bottom line is that if you want to be able to drive around, plan to pay a REASONABLE tax on gas, otherwise get tolled THROUGH THE TEETH, as in many thousands of dollars per year.
Sorry if I (again) offended the Perry Girls.
/MS Heh!
It’s okay - the people of Maryland love high taxes. :)
Just once, it would be nice if lunatics actually had to endure what they advocate right away, instead of passing the consequences off to future generations.
About $15 a gallon should do it.
Never mind the fact that O’Malley raided Maryland’s Transportation fund two years ago to pay for his new social programs, and now wants to raise gas taxes to try and put it back.
the largest, single employer in central MD is NSA and all the supporting contractors. government is already the biggest industry.....why would more taxes be "better" in maryland? the rest of the state? eastern MD is largely republican and largely ignored. southern MD doesn't exist to useless politicians. all that "maryland" is is baltimore city (welfare basket case), PG and Montgomery counties - government employees who don't want to live in the freefire zone which is DC. this means the political keystones for MD are all dependent on government.....of COURSE they need taxes. god forbid they get real jobs which grows jobs, grows a tax base, etc. (fyi, this is Mr. ZinGirl ranting away here while I read him the article!)
Energy is freedom.
Statists hate cheap energy because it allows people to escape the perfectly planned societies they have set up. They need it to be expensive and available only to a few because that facilitates control. Citizen, you must obey new decree # 678A0993, under penalty of losing your monthly heat/light/transportation ration.
Mr. Douglas Duncan, writing for the Washington Post, here discloses which side he has taken regarding a government and the citizens who supposedly authorize that government. He is on the side of government.
Taxes, whether sales tax or gas tax, do not add value to a commodity, they reduce it. Governments already make more money on the sale of a gallon of gas than the people who risk their lives and capital to find the petroleum reserves, extract them, refine them, and deliver them to your corner service station.
For this, the industrialists make about a nickel.
Maryland is already making forty cents, and this greedy governor, whose first action, even before the normal legislative session, was to raise the sales tax, wants to increase his take by another twenty cents.
Thus Maryland would be making sixty cents per gallon, while those doing the work would get a nickel.
For this booty, the state of Maryland does nothing, other than to threaten the lives and property of those attempting to do business in this local version of the Khyber Pass and its highway robbers.
Total Bullshit the Gas tax pays for everything but it purpose which is to fix the roads!!!
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