Tonight - HB-83 became available online whereby Sheila Hixson - Montgomery County, Kumar Barve - Montgomery County, and Maggie McIntosh - Baltimore City sponsored enabling legislation that would allow a County Council to override a county's revenue cap.
This is about the 4th year in a row whereby certain members of the Maryland Legislature have attempted to preempt a public referendum for Charter counties to operate under a revenue cap.
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This an attempt to override the will of "we the people" on a local level. It could be compared to the Congress overriding the results of an election. How are we to respond to this? What are the people to do? If this is passed it goes further than the will of the people not being heard. The will of the people is intentionally being circumvented. Like the cap or not, the people voted it in. Case closed.
ReplyDeleteThe only way to stop this type of corruption is to start criminally charging these types of people!
ReplyDelete6:12 I completely agree. One problem. No law exists to permit that. Legislators will not pass laws that strip them of any power at all. I'm afraid it's going to take something a lot more drastic to put an end to this corruption.
ReplyDeleteThis really means nothing if the county council does not exercise its right to raise the taxes. As many have said in Wicomico County, the problem is not the revenue cap. It is not stopping the council from raising taxes to support our infrastructure. We need the council to step up and at least raise taxes some so we can keep our services at a satisfactory rate.
ReplyDeleteThrow all of the dirt bags in Washington and Annapolis out! Keep only the ones doing the will of the people and criminally charge all of the others. Our system is so freekin broken because of these people who think money grows on trees that the only thing left is to go to war with them and defeat them in a big way!
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ReplyDeleteYou forgetting something - there are two sides to that equation.
The other is to cut spending. The Board of Education's runaway teachers union is out of control. It has been for quite some time. They - (teachers union) - would rather enslave the general public as opposed to the public controlling them. And that is exactly what has happened across the entire State of Maryland.
I do not understand why our side of the shore is still attached - secession is needed now.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I agree with 7:17 AM:
ReplyDeleteWe need to get out of the control of the morons of b-more city aka Martin O'mally...
I mean we should secede because all of our tax money is being used in another city across the bay... And with the way they wanting to keep raise fees and taxes, it is ridiculous... I mean just because the Governor doesn't wan to operate correctly, why should the our side of the bridge pay more for someone else to see the benefit?
Lets start the process lol
Maybe we can get Delaware to annex us. Tax-free liquor and no tolls.
ReplyDeleteKeep voting for these people! You're getting what you voted for!
ReplyDeleteThe State of Maryland is literally taking money out of the Counties bucket. That would be money for roads
ReplyDeleteflush tax and now the Teachers pensions. When will the people quit electing these thieves
I agree with 7:15...new taxes are the wrong answer. Throwing good money after bad will not solve our issues. We need to rein in the frivolous spending and the waste has got to stop.
ReplyDelete9:09 Delaware has plenty of tolls.
ReplyDelete"The Board of Education's runaway teachers union is out of control. It has been for quite some time. They - (teachers union) - would rather enslave the general public as opposed to the public controlling them"
ReplyDeleteI would like to know where your information comes from. How is it that the teachers' union is enslaving the public?