Senate President Thomas V. “Mike” Miller Jr. officially introduced his transportation funding plan on Monday evening.
Miller's plan includes a new 3 percent sales tax on gas paid at the wholesale level and giving local jurisdictions the ability to add as much as 5 cents to the state's existing 23.5-cents-a-gallon gas tax to pay for local road and transit projects.
Funding for transportation projects has been a hot topic since 2010. But lawmakers have struggled to agree on how the state will pay for proposed high-dollar projects including the Red Line in Baltimore, the Purple Line in Prince George's and Montgomery counties and the Corridor Cities Transitway along Interstate 270 northwest of Washington. The state currently only has enough money to maintain existing projects, officials have said.
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As usual, the big money projects will go to the big cities...nothing for the Eastern Shore. TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION is what it is. The Eastern Shore pays taxes, too!!
ReplyDeleteGas prices are already going up, just wait for the summer blend, we'll be paying $4 a gallon.
ReplyDeletethat 3% will just be passed on to the consumer
ReplyDeleteso that would be a 11-17 cent increase in the botom line
11 to the state and 5 local
Remember the state government sold us the notion that the higher tolls fees were necessary to pay for the road upkeep. What did they do with that money?
ReplyDeleteRead the article joe posted before this one regarding the monies that
ReplyDeletehave been taken from the transportation money set aside for our highways.
Are you kidding me mike miller (you idiot and thief)? yes; that's what i called you because that's what you are.
You must think we're complete loons over here and don't pay attention. well, we do pay attention and you dems need to go soon before you destroy every household in maryland but yours.
Everyone reading this should make it a point to get rid of as many dems as possible the next election cycle if you want to save your life, your future and your sanity, because these dems are crazy...