Look at that deeper. the politicians raise minimum wage but who pays it? Not them! The business owners. then when minimum wage rises, who gets the receipts of the increase in income taxes? the politicians who screwed the business owners! what do the politicians care as long as they can increase their looting of the paychecks?

Sanchez, raising the minimum wage does not 'screw the business owners' in the slightest. That has been said every single time the minimum wage was increased and it has been a lie every single time.

Facilities and equipment factor in, also the real cost of an employee is about double their salary.

the sad sad truth is people might elect him president. Maryland has elected and re-elected him with overwhelming majorities despite all the taxes he has imposed. People don't vote smart anymore, they vote a straight line party ticket either because their unions told them to, or they want to just defeat the other side regardless of whether they even know what the other side stands for. Maryland taxpayers have no one to blame but themselves for this tax mess we are in.

Stealth? Stealth means 'hidden'. This is not hidden in the slightest.

Adios then!

Can't stand people who start off a sentence with "No offense".

What a joke. You are incapable of making a reasonable point without belittling those who disagree with you. Let me summarize just this one post: absolute idiots, crying like uneducated children, whine, complain, not even a cursory understanding, blabbing, worthless comment... everyone else is a moron except for the almighty @jag.

Nothing more than a typical liberal elitist that can't grasp the simple concept that people are feed-up with more and more taxes. Liberals like yourself think the Government is the only answer to your problems, needs, wants, and desires. No way the private sector could ever provide an EMS on its own. Government is the answer and cost is nary a concern. Just like your buddy Charles B. Rangel said the other day, "passing a budget is a joke".

I have not whined, I made the best possible play, I sold my companies for maximum dollars, and bought a home in Delaware. I won! My property tax is 1/3 of what it was in MD. The problem that no one is addressing is that the creaters are leaving and leaving fast! When the creaters are gone, there will be NO MONEY LEFT to take from the working base. The risk takers are leaving MD fast, that RED ink is going to grow faster than the tax base can cover.You cannot tax or fee me anymore, total loss to Md from my depatrure, $1,011,000 in true taxes paid to the state MD in 2012, Good luck replacing that!

Brian sure pegged jag!

"First, this has nothing to do with O'Malley " until he SIGNS the bill. Do you think he was not in on this jagoff? Wanna buy some carbon credits to offset your pollution of the Earth with your CO2 exhalation?

Jag, you are an imbecile and you know it. That is why you make it a habit of insulting others. I have two graduate degrees and am very capable of contributing to intelligent conversation when I see it. I have the right to express my opinion, without being insulted, that another state looks ever so appealing to me and that I will pursue it when the time is right. That's the problem -- the average Joe has more power than he/she believes if they would change their behavior in the way they vote (or don't), communicate with their elected officials, make purchases, etc.

The Beast, you had better enjoy your free ride while it lasts, because more and more localities and states are realizing that, if anything, they are not taxing people making over 250K a year enough.

"How dare they increase funding to pay for emergency medical pilots! Jerks!"
AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

Count up the costs for those new drivers in Martyland who are not wealthy and who want an old car to get a job. Any clue how much it costs for a 16 year old to get their learners permit, drivers ed, drivers license, insurance and registration costs?
How many young people will not be driving because of the costs?
Think of others besides yourself.

No, it's "How dare they continually overspend and mis-appropriate their existing funds".

I agree that they have severe budgetary issues.

aside from your sarcasm, if you really read the article re: emergency pilot pay it said 194 applied and then less than 1/2 of them declined because of pay. And only 11 positions are currently open. So that means there were still on average 8 applications for each open position. There is no reason to raise the wage when there is this kind of demand for the position.

70k is entry level for a helicopter pilot.

yes isn't it ironic that tax payer money funds the Raven and Orioles, the owners of these teams make millions, and the average tax payer who paid for the stadium can't even afford to go to the games.

Neither the Ravens, nor the Orioles own a stadium, or a ballpark. Those were built with lottery/gambling dollars and belong to MD. The teams pay rent, tickets, food, and other sales generate MD tax dollars. Some players, staff, and associated local business generate income and sales taxes as well.

2007 Special “Tax Hike” Session:

• Senate Bill 2 - Real property transfer tax hike: $14.1 million.
• House Bill 5 – “Tip Jar” tax hike, 20-percent “Admissions and Amusement” tax: $8 million
• Tobacco tax hike from $1 per pack to $2 per pack: $133 million
• Vehicle excise tax hike: $36.9 million
• Vehicle titling tax hike (bumped from $23 to $50): $23 million
• Sales tax hike from 5-percent to 6-percent: $603.4 million
• Income tax hike with new rates between 4.75-percent and 5.5-percent: $191.3 million
• State corporate income tax hike from 7-percent to 8.25-percent: $118.6 million

2007 Regular Legislative Session:

• Eliminated use of captive real estate investment trusts for income tax purposes: $10 million

Additional notes:

• Since taking office in 2007, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has enacted 19 major tax hikes amounting to a total of $2.2 billion in tax increases.

• In that same period of time, Governor O’Malley has increased spending by over $1 billion each fiscal year.

• The National Governors Association and National Associations of State Budget Officers’ 2011 fiscal study of the states shows Maryland to have the highest rate of budget growth in the mid-Atlantic region and 7th overall nationally.

• In the past year Governor O’Malley has tackled social issues that are important to liberal Democrat voters, including Gay Marriage and the DREAM Act – checking off the requirements for his own presidential ambitions in 2016.

• Governor O’Malley continues to push for a multi-billion dollar wind farm project off the coast of Maryland that would cause higher costs for utility providers and consumers alike.

PAY UP !

Most people spend that much money on their hobby in a month, more if they are hardcore gunners.

I found enough to pay the registration fee between the cushions on the couch.

1ke, you can't see the forest for the trees sir. All the posted increases do not add up for a family do they? Well, your comment coming from someone who thinks the national debt is not being paid by all of us who work for a living, I will excuse your economic ignorance. It is apparent you don't think of anyone but yourself.

Ike, you are exactly why Annapolis keeps raising all these taxes. Because to you $3.50 is not a lot of money just like one dollar at the dollar store doesn't seem like a lot, but when you load up your cart at the dollar store, or combine all the "small fees" out of annapolis, you are suddenly looking at a huge bill that for most average families, becomes unaffordable.

Some think of no one but themselves and their little world.

Do you think that increasing spending power and the rate of economic expansion has occurred to anyone? Beside you, of course, and JoeBlob.

Someone who says 1ke that we are not paying for the $17 TRILLION in debt is not one I prefer to discuss economic issues with. My 24 year old son has a better grasp than you do on economics.

The cost of maintaining the quality of life is rising. In a period where smokestack industry is gone--forever, actually--keeping the infrastructure that we are used to and meeting new challenges such as the deteriorating environment is going to cost. Fees and new taxes are needed until new ways of competing in the global marketplace are developed.

So HGH now joins the Patch Ass team! I live in your pinhead don't I honey pot?

Oh, Joeblob, you really just can't resist logging in to the knuckledragger club, can you? You will now get all of the benefits to which you are entitled.

How about you figure out a ratio of the number of words you post in this thread that are actually about the topic, compared with the number of words that are just anti-government ranting? One rant fits all, eh JoeBlob?

Well we all know that nothing beats a JoeBlob.

I don't wish that you ever need a Medevac, but if you do, I hope the pilot is well rested...

@Honeygo Hal - why is it you believe that only the government can provide this service? You can't seriously believe that right?

Brian - who else provides Medevac service in MD?

Stop the frivolous spending, lower taxes and there would be no budget issues.

Honey Pot Hal rambles incoherently and says nothing of substance.

Obviously the Dem way is not working. Look at the mess this state is in.

JoeBlob - a perfect example of the right-wing echo chamber.

Still rambling Honey Pot Hal! Still rambling. You got nothing, you got served boy!

We were right on the money about ObamaCare.
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Your track record is full of losing.

Honeygo Gal, you would defend the leftists if they came and confiscated your bank account.

Thank you, amary, for your sizeable contribution to the discussion.

Well Honeygo Gal, you just repeat things you hear on MSNBC, while Joe Sanchez as you call him, puts out facts you can't refute. Sounds like you are the one who has nothing to offer.

Lefties like you are Honeygo Gal gotta stick together, right FIFA?

amary says "Lefties like you are Honeygo Gal gotta stick together, right FIFA?"

What language are you trying to communicate in, girl?

I get my facts from all over the place - I realize MSNBC has a left tilt, so when I see something there I check it out against other sources.

OBTW, you should check out MSNBC tonight (Friday) at 9:00. They will be rerunning their documentary on the selling of the Iraq war - you know, 4,000 US military killed, thousands of Iraqis killed, over $2 Trillion (with a T) spent off the budget - which the president and vice president (Darth Vader and his puppet) lied about to get us over there. Ten years later, and Iraq is probably worse off than it was in 2003. Perhaps the only good thing is Saddam Hussein is dead - at a very steep cost. But at least GWB finished the job his daddy couldn't or wouldn't...

Wow Honeygo Gal, good for you correcting my typo's! Makes you feel smart, huh? No I won't be watching your friend Rachel Madcow's propoganda. It seems we had this discussion before and I told you that then. And also I was never in favor of the Iraq war, maam. I am not a neocon, more of a libertarian conservative so you shouldn't presume such things anyway. Sorry I try to show more respect for women like you Honeygo Gal, but people on the extreme left cause such reactions.

Look at the well SERVED FIFI go into the toilet when he cannot argue the facts. He has to start his lies and his prevarications which have nothing to do with the topic at hand. since I live in his head he seems incapable of commenting without mentioning me. You been served in 2 days more than dessert plates! then you get all personal. Such a loser Westboro Fifi.

amary, I didn't correct anything, because I have no idea what you were trying to say, girlfriend.

And believe it or not, I was putting the MSNBC info out there for more than just you.

Taken further, I made no suggestion of your ideological beliefs, so don't try to put those words in my mouth, either. But while we're at it, just because you were never in favor of the Iraq thing, the facts and the cost of that misadventure don't mean anything to you?

You are free to watch it 100x if you want. But like you I realize MSDNC has a left tilt (to put it extremely mildly) and I avoid watching it because of that. It is 24/7 pushing the leftist agenda. So while I think the Iraq war was naive, foolish and not in the best interests of the nation I don't see it as having been waged for the reasons you probably do.

Let's hear your definition of a troll fifi...

Well SERVED FIFI is again reduced to, well, anyone can see it in you last reply.
And again with the immoral lies? "You have been banned many time before"?

To you $17 TRILLION is not a lot but 1 is?

Seppy, you still trickling down over there in Ho Co.?

I don't live there. So are you saying I'm wrong even though it is clear through history that my statement is true?

Cite it, Seepy. I'd be glad to read it.

I think it is patently untrue.

CP, of course if you cite the facts they will whine about your source. They are just too intellectually dishonest with themselves to do their own search of the increase in revenue when Kennedy and Regan and Bush all cut taxes.
It is widely accepted and the revenue history shows it to be true. the deniers just want to deny, not learn.

Look at the increase in taxes in California and Illinois and see how revenue fell.
"California State Controller John Chiang has announced that total state revenue for the month of November 2012 fell $806.8 million, or 10.8%, below budget. "

"Illinois State Tax Revenues Drop Following Affiliate Nexus Tax"

Some will never learn.

i didn't say ZERO TAX. You're wrong and you know it.

F'n stupid. And you wonder why we have a deficit problem? Grow up!

Now, JoeBlob, you know good and well that I read even your links and copypasta, even though you call me names.

Why do you tell that boy that? How will he ever grow up to be old and short-tempered like you if you stunt his intellectual growth like that.

He doesn't read, just gets angry and fumes.

Buddy, get yourself a helicopter. Get together with your neighbors and make a purchase http://ringpower.com/media/722520/screeds_banner.jpg. and get to it.

But...isn't government about getting together with ALL your neighbors? I mean, I don't know...

Private Industry - google it sometime and try to understand how it works. Clearly you know how well government works.

Buy yourself a paving screed and get to it, Brian. Make yourself a fortune.

Brian, understand how private industry FAILS 60%+ of the time and then understand why we don't want to leave some things to private business.

Imagine, a fire department that failed in putting out fires 60% of the time... I would be calling for my tax money to be returned.

Where? Not with my employer.

Don't forget if he/she has to pay tolls.

Sounds like driving around is not an entitlement? Robust mass transit is an infrastructure need and Zipcar on the side.

But that wouldn't be suburban, would it?

The well SERVED FIFI says "So?"

Damn you libs are selfish and only think of yourselves!

Your absolutely correct driving is not an entitlement. Yes, mass transit is a need but not an entitlement. There are tons of waste in mass transit. When I’m up at all hours of the night at work and I see countless buses traveling around with no or very limited passenger’s it a sign maybe that’s a service we don’t need at that hour. But we continue to waste salaries, benefits, fuel, and wear and tear on the vehicles on top of the wear and tear on our roads by these vehicles. Secondly I personally oppose that the mass transit running into suburban areas only because with mass transit it brings problems to these areas.

JoeBlob, of all the posters here, you are the one who has argued most vehemently that assuming individual responsibility is the most important thing. At what age do you propose that it start?

Oh, and the insurance market is responsible for the largest chunk...

1ke the ass is babbling again.

Well SERVED Fifi is doing his impersonation of a private dick but as usual is wrong again. Jose and Sanchez are like Dick and Smith.

Childish and no solutions!

The word is 'ridiculous' and no, it is not. Most of the problems you are having are coming from inflationary pressures.

I'll let you know when I turn 70 and collect Social Security.

You will either be called a racist or nutter for asking that question.

Which tax, Rita?

Yes Rita you are right. It seems like 3 times since Owe'Malley took the throne.
3 times. Its only a penny! Its only a few dollars.

They are MY GD dollars!

Lovely Rita asks "did they not raise the tax prior to this for the same exact reason they are raising it for now ...."

1ke asks "Which tax, Rita?"

Hey 1ke, what is the HEADLINE of the story?

Bucky-boy, the headline is about a fee in a bill. And, no, gas taxes have not been raised for a long while. And, no, a tax is not a fee.

Just because you and RIta and Lottie Dottie pay money does not make it a tax.

Quibbling rube.

1ke, are you drunk?... I have no idea what you are talking about here, please stick to the topic or call it a day....you're post's are staggering again..

Looks like he failed again, Sanchez.

I will repost Westboro Fifi's self pulled comment for your entertainment.

FIFA12:36 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
"Gee Jose Sanchez, I see you go around and delete your obscenity laden posts. Are you afraid of the editor, it appears so? Or you just chicken droppings?"

I called him out on it and he retreats. Served again.

Looks like he ran away. Wonder why?

"Pace." P-A-C-E.

Maybe some of these added taxes can go towards education. See above.

You, sir, have a lurid imagination. You must have some harrowing dreams.

thank you, yes pace. It was early and i was in a rush lol.