Oh, Great, TWO special sessions, so 3 total chances to screw us over in 1 year

[Saticon3]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...,4316201.story

The one saving grace used to be that their damage was confined to 90 days......

[johnpolitics]

How does MOM think a tax increase on the middle class is going to help him in 2016? The problem is the GA will probably pass it because Baltimore City and PG Dems do not represent any voters making over $75,000 a year.

[Saticon3]

How does MOM think a tax increase on the middle class is going to help him in 2016? The problem is the GA will probably pass it because Baltimore City and PG Dems do not represent any voters making over $75,000 a year.

Well, he's going for the demlib votes, for whom which tax increases are "gutsy" and a good thing.

[TFinan]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...,4316201.story

The one saving grace used to be that their damage was confined to 90 days......

The only things Democrats know how to do is spend tax dollars to push their own agenda. Reminds one of Germany during WW II, & I their leader did the same thing. He punished those that did not support him. The Fascist leader of Italy during that time basically did the same thing and we all know what happened to both of them. Maryland has got to end their love affair with TAX & SPEND DEMOCRATS IF MARYLAND IS TO SURVIVE. We already fought one battle over Unfair Taxation in this country, looks like another is coming this summer.

[Just Pondering]

"Special Sessions" - where politicians get to wheel and deal away from the cameras.

They'll probably raise taxes again. Afterall, most got into politics to make money by spending money on things that will help make them money.

[Saticon3]

"Special Sessions" - where politicians get to wheel and deal away from the cameras.

They'll probably raise taxes again. Afterall, most got into politics to make money by spending money on things that will help make them money.

well, special session 1 would be about nothing else but raising taxes

then 2 in the grand tradition of MD Legislature, is "compromising" by giving everybody everything ( like Thronton, the rich counties bct'hed they weren't gettign any new stat emoney even though the plan was to bring the poor ones up to the level of the rich ones, but they threw money at the rich ones too)

Guess the MD Legislature can't walk and chew gum at the same time, why not have a special session for each and every piece of legislation?

and I wish the media would stop referring to the doomsday "cuts" as cuts, when they are not cust at all, just not as much of an increase as in O'malley's first proposed budget

[Wizard777]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...,4316201.story

The one saving grace used to be that their damage was confined to 90 days......

I'm think that the first order of business will be to give themselves raises as compensation for this overtime. I'll be highly impressed if they don't.

[ybnormal]

And who funds these "special sessions"? Someone has to pay - the taxpayers.

Anyone remember the last "special session", you know, the one where the GA met behind behind closed doors in the middle of the night and hammered out a deal to give Marty what he wanted all along - the 20% sales tax increase...among other hikes? Underhanded politics at its finest. And the democrats who put these conniving thieves in office are proud of it.

[boink]

Who's afraid of the Doomsday Budget? Not the Washington Post.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...0jT_story.html

Who’s afraid of Maryland’s ‘doomsday’ budget?

By Editorial Board, Friday, April 27, 12:44 AM

MARYLAND LAWMAKERS have made such a mess of the people’s business that it now looks like it will take two special legislative sessions in Annapolis, not just one, to straighten things out. But really, there’s a simpler solution: Do nothing.

We’re being facetious, but only slightly. The truth is that if lawmakers in the General Assembly were to stay home and skip the special sessions, the effect would be to cancel plans for a tax increase; spare the state a senseless expansion of casino gambling; eliminate some dubious spending programs; and ensure that Maryland’s $35 billion budget still manages to grow by a respectable $700 million, about 2 percent.

None of that sounds exactly like doomsday. Nonetheless, the Democrats who dominate the legislature insist that returning to Annapolis is obligatory to prevent what they refer to as a “doomsday” budget — a default spending plan whose $500 million in cuts to certain programs were designed to be distasteful to Democrats and the interest groups that support them. A second special session would deal with proposals to add table games at existing casinos and to authorize construction of a new casino...

[Saticon3]

awwww, what do you expect from that Republican shill, right wing dominated rag, the Washington Post?