ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- More than 300 people turned out before the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to raise the gas tax and replenish the Transportation Trust Fund.
According to the Maryland Department of Transportation, the bill would generate about $800 million annually by 2016 and create $3.4 billion in transportation investments during the next five years.
But the bill would also add a sales tax to gasoline, meaning the overall tax could increase from the current 23.5 cents to 42.7 cents by 2018.
"Maryland's trust fund is broke. We need more money for transportation, including mass transit. The question is how to do it," says Lon Anderson, spokesman for AAA Mid-Atlantic. "(Senate President) Mike Miller has a bill that would spread the pain more fairly. Gov. O'Malley's bill would put almost all of it on motorists and would make Maryland's gas tax fifth largest in the nation by 2018."
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Its more than broke! Its flat out corrupt with thieves who blatantly steal from every available budget and the people in every imaginary excuse that it can and then laugh at the citizens for their inability to stop them. THE only way to fix it correctly is to snatch down these thieves and punish them accordingly!
ReplyDeletePssst! Anything left in the teacher pension fund?
ReplyDeletedittos to 8:42. our state government is as corrupt as it gets. we must begin to fight this. our current reps; especially conway and cane are worthless and don't give a damn for their constituents.
ReplyDeletethe transportation dollars have always been funneled into the projects of the libs on the wrong side of the bay. we have always been shortchanged and it's not going to stop anytime soon.