Voters this November will decide the fate of a state constitutional amendment that will limit when the governor and the legislature can take money out of the state's Transportation Trust Fund.
The fund is made up of revenues collected from the state's gasoline tax and vehicle feeds and is earmarked for transportation projects.
Maryland Secretary of State John McDonough this week certified the language that will appear on the November 4 ballot.
The measure would require any governor to declare a "fiscal emergency" and then receive a three-fifths majority vote from the Maryland General Assembly, before using the trust fund money for any purpose other than transportation.
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And we think a simple law will prevent these slimy politicians from taking it through an even more despicable manner?!
ReplyDeleteWe not only need to approve this law, we need to get rid of the democrat slime that would ignore it anyway!
This should be a requirement for ALL trust funds.
ReplyDeleteYou all obviously didn't read the entire article and missed the most important part of the story.
ReplyDelete"Republicans have argued the measure offers no definition of a "fiscal emergency" and gives the governor broad authority to declare an emergency."
The Democrat Slime that you mentioned could declare anything a fiscal emergency.
Why doesn't he just steal it from the Ches. Bay fund like he's already dong? Or the forty other funds he's tapped in to in the past?
ReplyDeletedon't allow this to happen. look at what the feds did to our soc. sec.
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