Yes, we have one of the worst tax-and-spend legislatures in the country. Though I live in a red county, we are a state so reliably blue that there is a nickname for Republican politicians here. We call them “The Unemployed.” Yes, we have the worst governor in America, Martin O’Malley, coming soon to a Democratic presidential primary near you. Despite O’Malley’s purported charms, he has never met a pocket he wouldn’t pick, along with the help of his rubber-stamp legislature. The watchdog group, Change Maryland, has counted 40 separate taxes or fee increases during O’Malley’s tenure, totaling $9.5 billion. Perhaps not coincidentally, Maryland also has witnessed 31,000 of its citizens flee to other states, and has seen 6,500
small businesses also flee or shut down during the same period. Our elected greedheads have now grown so unabashedly sticky-fingered that they are even implementing a “rain tax,” taxing the already overtaxed citizens of our state, based on the area of their impervious surfaces such as roofs or driveways, which produce stormwater runoff. All, they claim, to help save the Bay, instead of say, helping to save their asses from future budget shortfalls.
