Taxes on mileage, personal property and new tolls considered
Maryland lawmakers are considering dozens of revenue-raising proposals to shore up a major shortfall in transportation funding, including a 1.3-cent-per-mile tax on motorists, an annual property tax on vehicle owners and new tolls on state and federal highways.
The state's commission on transportation funding says lawmakers need to put at least $800 million into Maryland's withering transportation coffer each year to repair crumbling roads and aging bridges, after Gov. Martin O'Malley drained the fund to plug annual budget deficits.
With another $1 billion budget deficit estimated in fiscal 2013 and local transportation needs pushing $12 billion, budget analysts say Maryland lawmakers may have no choice but to raise taxes.
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NO MORE TAXES! WHY CAN'T THESES MORONS GET IT THROUGHJ THEIR HEADS?
ReplyDeleteWow paying a yearly $717.00 for a 15k car, well thats $1400.00 a year for the average car. I will move to Delaware and tag my cars there. That is rediculous, how in the hell to Virginians afford to have a car. You have your 400 a month car payment your 200 a month insurance and now your 200 a month yearly tax car payment.
ReplyDeleteMileage taxes. I forsee plenty of cars with falsified odometers. Oops my odometer is broken for the last 11 months, I only drove 500 miles this year. Here is your $5.00 State of Maryland. Spend it wisely.
ReplyDeleteAlso this would cost money, because they would have to hire people to inspect your odometer every year. State Job that probably pays 25-30k a year, and you would need around 10 people to check them per county, two supervisors, one county supervisor, one region supervisor, an administrator, and a director and assitant director. Costing Millons just to staff and run the program. Great Idea......
Just one more reason for the Eastern Shore to form our own state and let the morons have that bit where most of 'our' tax dollars go! Taxes are out of hand, that is the main reason we seperated from the English monarchy, has our government forgotten this. History will repeat it self if they keep on taxing the people...revolt will come!!
ReplyDeleteMaryland will most likely continue forcing business and families to move to another state, I hope the Liberal a-holes that voted O'Malley into office the last two terms are happy he has pretty much destroyed Maryland just like Obama is destroying America
ReplyDeleteFor the 'free' state, it sure is getting pricey to live here.
ReplyDeleteTake it from O'Malley. The money was there. Right there in the "Transportation Fund", according to the article. He took it to pay for something else. Must have taken his cue from the weasels in the Congress, who claim the SSI fund is broke, but DON'T tell us that they took the cash to use on something else. O'Malley cheated us and now wants to tax us to make up for the money he should have left alone.
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