Gas Tax Increase

[helmetmike]

Don't forget to thank your Delegates and Senators who voted for the GAS Tax increase last year. Today we get another automatic bump from Annapolis. Another 1/2 cent per gallon every time you go anywhere.

 

[EL1227]

That's NOT even the half of it ...

Herb McMillan expounds in an email today ...

Today the newspapers will tell you that the cost of gas in Maryland is going up 4/10 of a cent/ gallon. It doesn't sound so so bad....until you know the rest of the story.

You see, when Speaker Mike Busch and Governor Martin O'Malley passed the gas tax, they also applied Maryland's sales tax to gas. The sales tax on gas is being phased in annually over 5 years,

Every year,gas will it goes up 3 cents on July 1st, in addition to an inflation adjustment, through 2016.
But not this year.

2014 is an election year; and of course, who wants a gas tax increase to remind all of those unenlightened, pesky voters about just how bad taxes are in Maryland?

So Busch and O'Malley came up with a solution: your gas taxes will increase by 3 cents/ gallon on January 1, 2015, and 3cents /gallon on July 1, 2015. You'll get a double whammy next year to make up for the election year break this year.

When the gas tax is fully implemented in 2016, Maryland's tax on gas will have gone from 23.5 cent/gal to 46 cents/gal, and Maryland will have the 5th highest gas tax in the United States.
That's the rest of the story; and this is exactly the manipulative, cynical, political machine we're up against.

The gas tax will DOUBLE by 2016 ...

 

[Redcobra]

I wouldn't mind the gas tax if they actually used the money to fix the roads. Our roadway infrastructure really sucks in this country. Those of you who have been to Europe recently (even South and Central America) know what I mean.

 

[EL1227]

I wouldn't mind the gas tax if they actually used the money to fix the roads. Our roadway infrastructure really sucks in this country. Those of you who have been to Europe recently (even South and Central America) know what I mean.

Brazil's roads, even major highways, SUCK ... except for the tourist areas like Rio, but Sao Paulo roads are about as bombed out with pot-holes as those in Iraq. And, of course, the gov'mnt of Brazil leans socialist ...

Besides, at $.46/gal. by 2016, PLUS a potential of adding sales tax, they could GOLD PLATE our friggin' roads. But, it all goes into the general fund to be siphoned off buying votes.

WAKE UP and smell the fumes ...

 

[sxs]

I don't care if they did use it to fix roads (and they don't always)...it was a cowardly act to build in future automatic increases indexed to inflation so they won't have to answer to the voters year after year. If it's truly needed, make the case for it and/or take the heat for a tax increase. Maryland's politics is in the toilet.

 

[Engine4]

The talking head on the local news said it was passed by legislators last session. I yelled at the TV that she should have said it was passed by democrats!

 

[DaveP]

Don't forget the $0.05 per mile "fee" they are starting to float.
C'mon, why don't you want to pay your "fair share"????

 

[dist1646]

It hits those who work on the roads and bridges really hard! You just can not buy a home close to work when you have to travel all over the state to get to the job site.
Hits construction companies too and they will be forced to take it out on the employees by not giving raises or worse yet, pay cuts to stay in business. Next time you are driving down the road, think of all the construction workers have done for you, that gets taken for granted.

 

[EL1227]

Crumbling roads and bridges ???

It hits those who work on the roads and bridges really hard! You just can not buy a home close to work when you have to travel all over the state to get to the job site.
Hits construction companies too and they will be forced to take it out on the employees by not giving raises or worse yet, pay cuts to stay in business. Next time you are driving down the road, think of all the construction workers have done for you, that gets taken for granted.

How about NO roads and bridges ???

Obama warns of deep cutbacks in highway construction aid

As many as 700,000 jobs could be at risk over the next year, Obama told a crowd of about 500 gathered Tuesday beneath the Key Bridge, which spans the Potomac River and joins the District of Columbia and Virginia.

And yet with a pen and a phone Obama will redirect $B's in gov'mnt revenue to 'address' a self-made humanitarian crisis on the southern border.

Aww fvck it ... just put up a sign then we'll all know why.

 

[BuildnBurn]

One of the nice things about living in Western Frederick Co is I buy 90% of my gas in VA. M'OM and Bucsh and Miller can bite me

 

[DaveP]

Next time you are driving down the road, think of all the construction workers have done for you, that gets taken for granted.

LOL, you have GOT to be kidding me!
I see WAY too many make-work and/or union "projects".

Heck, some years ago I lived at the absolute dead end of a dead end road.
Road was in great shape, but got repaved anyway.
Then repaved again, less than 18 months later.

Part of Schaefer's "Stimulating" the state economy plan.

And like everything else, $$$ comes out of MY pocket!

 

[Mooseman]

Damn, I guess I will have to drive three minutes out of my way to get my gas in West Virginia.

 

[Franklin]

Damn, I guess I will have to drive three minutes out of my way to get my gas in West Virginia.

by monthly for me with a few 55 gallon drums.

 

[dist1646]

LOL, you have GOT to be kidding me!
I see WAY too many make-work and/or union "projects".

Heck, some years ago I lived at the absolute dead end of a dead end road.
Road was in great shape, but got repaved anyway.
Then repaved again, less than 18 months later.

Part of Schaefer's "Stimulating" the state economy plan.

And like everything else, $$$ comes out of MY pocket!

It could be worse. They could have been government employees with full benefits and retirement instead of construction workers. They don't get to decide what gets done, it's the politicians looking for votes that do!

 

[Matlack]

By the way the 1/2 cent increase is really 1 cent increase, unless you can actually find a gas station that doesnt have .9 cents per gallon at the end and instead sells it at .4.