O'Malley and liberal elites to push for gas tax hike again

[Bloomin Onion]

http://foxbaltimore.com/news/feature...ax-16855.shtml

Wonder why the liberal Sun paper has not mentioned this yet! So this article basically says the trust fund, even after being raided to help liberal social programs including illegal immigrants, still has enough money to maintain the current roads. They are ONLY doing this to pay for the Red Line and the new mass transit project they want to build in the DC area. First of all many people here do NOT want the Red Line built. Second it will be unfair to the Eastern Shore and Western Maryland voters who will be subsidizing it through their gas taxes.

If they INSIST on building more mass transit lines it should be paid for by sales taxes which everyone pays, not just drivers. Currently mass transit riders get a subsidy as their fares do not cover the operating costs of the transit systems. And while the liberals promote hybrids and fuel efficient cars, now they are losing money with the gasoline tax and have to add more again.

[Bloomin Onion]

This is what happens when people continue to vote for the liberal Democrats, when they are not afraid of losing in an election. Voter approval of the liberal agenda especially gay marriage and illegal immigration has only emboldened the Democrats. They do not fear defeat. They think people will complain about the gas tax and then vote Democrat anyway for the sake of abortion, illegal immigration, and contraception.

Most other states, especially in the South, would not DARE raise taxes the way O'Malley has already done, and now O'Malley wants more taxes.

[boink]

get ready to bend over and take it up the wazoo for wind power next session, i.e., a surcharge on your BGE bill

[Bloomin Onion]

And WE DO NOT NEED the Baltimore REd Line. I live in Baltimore County and am VERY opposed to it. First off as someone who drives exclusively I think mass transit users should pay for themselves. Fox 45 said that 50% of the state's transportation money goes to the Light Rail, Baltimore Metro, and DC Metro and other mass transit operations like the MTA buses (where if a white person boards they are racially attacked like that well known case). In Virginia, Northern Virginia's local taxes pay for their part of the DC Metro while in Maryland everyone in the entire state, including Cumberland and Salisbury, pays for it. Also even if my taxes were NOT used to fund the REd Line, I would STILL oppose it as it allows more and more of an undesirable segment of the urban population to move here to Baltimore County.

A friend from Carroll County once told me its good that you must be able to afford a car to live there because that keeps certain people out. Many people here believve the same thing, and many in Baltimore County and Anne Arundel wish the Metro and Light Rail had never been built. Not just because of the taxes used to pay for them, but because of the crime and ghetto migration it has facilitated.

Its not that criminals use the train a lot to rob people and ride with their stolen boom boxes back to the city. Its that it allows a ghetto population to MOVE into the suburbs, which results in a ghetto culture arising in the areas where the ghetto people move to. Even kids and teens who initially were not ghetto can be influenced by the gehtto lifestyle and crime. That is the real reason that crime rises when mass transit is built into the suburbs.

[Brohan]

There is nothing elite or progressive about any of those crooks.

[pcfixer]

Sooo, Who voted these people in Office? I know if wasn't ME.

[Baltimatt]

MTA buses (where if a white person boards they are racially attacked like that well known case).

Absolute BULL. Plenty of white people ride MTA buses every day without incident, except maybe a younger black person will offer an older white person a seat on a crowded bus.

Not saying there has never been a bad incident like the one you mentioned, but that's not a normal every day thing.

[BlandFood]

Absolute BULL. Plenty of white people ride MTA buses every day without incident, except maybe a younger black person will offer an older white person a seat on a crowded bus.

Not saying there has never been a bad incident like the one you mentioned, but that's not a normal every day thing.

Cept if it happens on THIS route Matt, almost a guarantee unless things have changed drastically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyEWCNCKxyk

[FowlPlay]

According to OweMalleys state page, the ridership of publc transportation in Maryland was at 350,000 in 2011. (im thinking this has to be low)http://www.statestat.maryland.gov/gdutransit.asp

The new projects that they are talking about funding are roughly 1 billion dollars.
If you take the 1 billion dollars and figure in the cost per rider, its about 2,857.00 dollars each. Even if the new projects double the rider numbers, we are still subsizing the building of the new lines at the rate of $1428.50 per rider.
I fail to see where this is cost effective.
I would suggest finding the money in places that it can be cut from without having to raise taxes or fees again, CASA and the support of illegals comes quickly to mind. Cut all funds to CASA, then do an extensive review of all that collect social services, cut all services to anyone that is not 100% legal U.S citizen and transfer those funds over to the new projects. Then we can re-evaluate the additional funds really needed.

[ybnormal]

What these ba$tards need to realize is that their "tax-and-spend" philosophy ain't cuttin' it. At least not for those with at least one functioning brain cell in their heads.

STOP THE FREAKIN' SPENDIING!!!! And maybe if our tax-loving governor didn't already raid the Transportation Trust Fund to help balance the operating budget, he wouldn't have to rasie the gasoline tax for more transportation projects. Duh. How stupid do these jackasses think we are? Must think there's plenty since they all got re-elected. Thanks democraps.

PS: I live in Howard County. I don't need the Red Line in Baltimore City and the millions it'll cost everyone in the state.

[musicmd]

What these ba$tards need to realize is that their "tax-and-spend" philosophy ain't cuttin' it. At least not for those with at least one functioning brain cell in their heads.

STOP THE FREAKIN' SPENDIING!!!! And maybe if our tax-loving governor didn't already raid the Transportation Trust Fund to help balance the operating budget, he wouldn't have to rasie the gasoline tax for more transportation projects. Duh. How stupid do these jackasses think we are? Must think there's plenty since they all got re-elected. Thanks democraps.

PS: I live in Howard County. I don't need the Red Line in Baltimore City and the millions it'll cost everyone in the state.

Whoever said the red line is for you. Although, people in Howard county will used the red line. Chill out. LOL

[musicmd]

According to OweMalleys state page, the ridership of publc transportation in Maryland was at 350,000 in 2011. (im thinking this has to be low)http://www.statestat.maryland.gov/gdutransit.asp

The new projects that they are talking about funding are roughly 1 billion dollars.
If you take the 1 billion dollars and figure in the cost per rider, its about 2,857.00 dollars each. Even if the new projects double the rider numbers, we are still subsizing the building of the new lines at the rate of $1428.50 per rider.
I fail to see where this is cost effective.
I would suggest finding the money in places that it can be cut from without having to raise taxes or fees again, CASA and the support of illegals comes quickly to mind. Cut all funds to CASA, then do an extensive review of all that collect social services, cut all services to anyone that is not 100% legal U.S citizen and transfer those funds over to the new projects. Then we can re-evaluate the additional funds really needed.

Which Casa are you talking about, there are two.

[musicmd]

And WE DO NOT NEED the Baltimore REd Line. I live in Baltimore County and am VERY opposed to it. First off as someone who drives exclusively I think mass transit users should pay for themselves. Fox 45 said that 50% of the state's transportation money goes to the Light Rail, Baltimore Metro, and DC Metro and other mass transit operations like the MTA buses (where if a white person boards they are racially attacked like that well known case). In Virginia, Northern Virginia's local taxes pay for their part of the DC Metro while in Maryland everyone in the entire state, including Cumberland and Salisbury, pays for it. Also even if my taxes were NOT used to fund the REd Line, I would STILL oppose it as it allows more and more of an undesirable segment of the urban population to move here to Baltimore County.

A friend from Carroll County once told me its good that you must be able to afford a car to live there because that keeps certain people out. Many people here believve the same thing, and many in Baltimore County and Anne Arundel wish the Metro and Light Rail had never been built. Not just because of the taxes used to pay for them, but because of the crime and ghetto migration it has facilitated.

Its not that criminals use the train a lot to rob people and ride with their stolen boom boxes back to the city. Its that it allows a ghetto population to MOVE into the suburbs, which results in a ghetto culture arising in the areas where the ghetto people move to. Even kids and teens who initially were not ghetto can be influenced by the gehtto lifestyle and crime. That is the real reason that crime rises when mass transit is built into the suburbs.

The red line will be going into Baltimore county. Moreover, you can move to your parents native country!

[Virginia Poe]

According to OweMalleys state page, the ridership of publc transportation in Maryland was at 350,000 in 2011. (im thinking this has to be low)http://www.statestat.maryland.gov/gdutransit.asp

The new projects that they are talking about funding are roughly 1 billion dollars.
If you take the 1 billion dollars and figure in the cost per rider, its about 2,857.00 dollars each. Even if the new projects double the rider numbers, we are still subsizing the building of the new lines at the rate of $1428.50 per rider.
I fail to see where this is cost effective.
I would suggest finding the money in places that it can be cut from without having to raise taxes or fees again, CASA and the support of illegals comes quickly to mind. Cut all funds to CASA, then do an extensive review of all that collect social services, cut all services to anyone that is not 100% legal U.S citizen and transfer those funds over to the new projects. Then we can re-evaluate the additional funds really needed.

The really PITIFUL thing is that these corrupt Bastards who run this state have no intentions of cutting ANYTHING that is illegal and infringing on our rights such as CASA de Crooks, Illegal Aliens infiltrating our Sanctuary State (from GOD only knows what background) or speed cameras, etc.

At least Paulette Faulkner blew the whistle on on illegal aliens receiving welfare benes in a MOCO office with just a CASA crap ID and expired visas and NO ID at all! This was a few years ago and I am sure it's still going on.

If ONLY we got rid of the fraud just IMAGINE the money this state would save. But that isn't possible in this corrupt ONE PARTY state. Not that the republicans did anything to aid Paulette anyway. So Sad and frustrating. Just keep suckin' us dry O'Malley. The totally out of touch teflon half lepreCON.

[musicmd]

where if a white person boards they are racially attacked like that well known case).

Well, go find a phone booth, and put your superman outfit on, and save all white people that ride on the METRO.

[musicmd]

The really PITIFUL thing is that these corrupt Bastards who run this state have no intentions of cutting ANYTHING that is illegal and infringing on our rights such as CASA de Crooks, Illegal Aliens infiltrating our Sanctuary State (from GOD only knows what background) or speed cameras, etc.

At least Paulette Faulkner blew the whistle on on illegal aliens receiving welfare benes in a MOCO office with just a CASA crap ID and expired visas and NO ID at all! This was a few years ago and I am sure it's still going on.

If ONLY we got rid of the fraud just IMAGINE the money this state would save. But that isn't possible in this corrupt ONE PARTY state. Not that the republicans did anything to aid Paulette anyway. So Sad and frustrating. Just keep suckin' us dry O'Malley. The totally out of touch teflon half lepreCON.

You better learn to speak Spanish because they are coming to get you, and your little dog too. POO

[Norman]

I bet there was a very similar thread last year...what happened to the supposed increase last year?

[musicmd]

I bet there was a very similar thread last year...what happened to the supposed increase last year?

Casa didn't need the money.

[Baltimatt]

Well, go find a phone booth, and put your superman outfit on, and save all white people that ride on the METRO.

He was talking about buses, not the Metro.

Be that as it may, can you image Bloomin Onion on an MTA bus? Every black person that comes through the front door would make him quiver. Too bad he wasn't with me earlier this week when I rode the 1 between downtown and Mondawmin after dark through the hood of West Baltimore--both ways.

[Marshan Man]

Lawd Matt NO!!! How'd you survive?!?!?