{"id":16673,"date":"2010-01-13T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16673"},"modified":"2010-01-13T10:59:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T15:59:17","slug":"maryland-thugs-look-for-more-taxes-on-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16673","title":{"rendered":"Maryland thugs look for more taxes on consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three years ago, Republicans Robert Erlich and Michael Steele left their respective offices of Governor and Lt. Governor and turned over a $12 million surplus to Democrat Marty O’Malley (he hates being called Marty, I hear). Within six months, the O’Malley Administration had spent the $12 million, and was busy raising taxes on Marylanders while handing out 6-figure jobs to his friends. <\/p>\n

Still deeply in debt, the Maryland government is seeking alternate taxes they load on the backs of marylanders. The latest is a $.10\/ounce tax on alcohol<\/a> which will drive up the price of a six-pack about $2.40.<\/p>\n

“God knows what it will cost by the time it gets to the consumer,” Milani said. “This isn’t a percentage, like a sales tax. People don’t realize — the guy who drinks a low-end case of beer every Friday night is going to have the same price increase as the guy who drinks premium beer.”<\/p>\n

The tax would apply to every 8 ounces of alcohol — totaling about 55 cents for a bottle of wine and 75 cents on a handle of liquor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maryland government is also looking at mobile traffic cameras since the cash cow of fixed cameras seems to have run dry<\/a>;<\/p>\n

One camera, on Randolph Road near Rock Creek Trail, caught nearly 12,000 speeders during its first month. A year later, the same camera generated only 2,383 tickets in a month, the report found.<\/p>\n

Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson recently decided to scrap putting fixed cameras in school zones, partly because of low expected revenues from fixed cameras. Instead, he is considering using six to eight mobile cameras.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, they could have their police officers patrol roads for traffic law violators while the police officers drive from Dunkin’ Donuts to Dunkin’ Donuts – but that’s probably too complex of an idea. I used to drive from one end of Montgomery County to downtown DC every work day and I never in all of those years saw a police officer on patrol. However, I could have written a month’s worth of tickets every day. But, maybe I don’t understand the intricacies of law enforcement – like punishing criminals for bad behavior.<\/p>\n

Especially since it’s just easier to look at each driver as government’s own personal ATM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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