Protest at Giant Food in Waldorf on 4/10/2011

Giantone

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why should we be upset at Giant for outsourcing (at least the outsourced jobs are still US jobs)
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No they are not,there are no jobs at all.........the work will go to a fully automatied warehouse(in PA).Taxes will just go higher to cover the more then 800 new unemployeed.
 

Giantone

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I plan to stop spending anything I dont have to spend in the state.
Pisses me off when I read about someone like a teacher losing their job because of budget problems, then I see that the illegals (new americans) are costing the state over 1 billion a year in services.



I agree with you in this aspect but you thought logic is wrong,so your answer is to not support the state and increase the tax burden on yourself and others???::popcorn:
 

Giantone

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I wish more companies would shift their taxable revenue out of the state too.
Giant is doing us and all other companies in the state a huge favor.

Wake up Omalley, you are running the jobs right out of the state with your ignorance.

I try to buy non Maryland whenever possible just to cut them out of any revenue I can.. (not like my purchasing power is even going to make a blip on the radar,, but it makes me feel better)

With a thought process like this , it would
be someone like yourself wrecking Maryland not O'Malley
 
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bcp

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With a thought process like this , it would
be someone like yourself wrecking Maryland not O'Malley

I understand what you are saying and to a degree have to agree with you.
However, if everything just keeps going on like always, companies don't stand up and say enough, citizens don't stand up and say enough, then nothing will change.

Letters and phone calls don't work, never have and never will. What will work however is making a financial statement. Raise tax on business, business leaves the state. less revenue.
Raise tax on goods, people buy out of state when the can. Less revenue.

Right now the majority of the business in Maryland will go along with almost anything because they can just raise the price of their service or goods and still end up with the same bottom line.

Take a car dealership, do you think they care if you pay 1 or 2% more in tax when you buy that car? do they care if you pay twice as much to title the car? no, they don't. They don't even really care if they pay more tax on their bottom line, they just wont deal down as far why you buy that car. So they sit back silent and just accept it.

Now take that same dealership, and lets say that people buy the car in Delaware or Virginia, sure if I do that I still pay twice as much to register it in Maryland, and yes I do pay the tax on the purchase in Maryland, however what I don't have to pay is the additional costs passed on by the dealer.
Where it hurts Maryland is on the taxes paid by the dealer on his quarterly bottom line, taxes on the income from a salesman.

The dealer is now in a position that he is feeling the loss. If he wants to bring his numbers back up he needs to actually fight the state to get rid of these additional taxes and fees.

Same with the beer store, or the cigarettes, How long will it take for these places to realize that the state has not only pushed up their taxes, but at the same time caused their customer base to leave the state for their purchases.

I would go as far as to suggest a boycott on anything produced or sold in Maryland until the state feel the pinch and starts to act in a fiscally responsible way.

The store employees want to get people out to protest in front of the stores. Where were those same store employees when teachers were being cut? how about police? or firemen?, Did the store employees all join together and protest in Annapolis? maybe I missed it.

Bottom line is that the state is pushing this type of action by raising the cost of doing business. The only protest that will get their attention is to purchase out of state when ever possible.
 

Giantone

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The store employees want to get people out to protest in front of the stores. Where were those same store employees when teachers were being cut? how about police? or firemen?, Did the store employees all join together and protest in Annapolis? maybe I missed it.

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We were there Teamster #730 was there as was #639

You put alot out there that I agree with you about but I just wanted to answer this first and to tell you my wife has been teaching for 23 years in a privet school so she doesn't get what other teachers get but we both agree that what is going on today with Teachers,Police ,Firemen and Nurses and people in the Military is dead wrong .....yes there need to be some changes but you can't tell me it better to go after them and children in the schools then to go after big business?
 

Giantone

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Take a car dealership, do you think they care if you pay 1 or 2% more in tax when you buy that car? do they care if you pay twice as much to title the car? no, they don't. They don't even really care if they pay more tax on their bottom line, they just wont deal down as far why you buy that car. So they sit back silent and just accept it.
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...........again I don't disagree with you but do you realize that it was'nt O'Malley that did this it was Erlich?I call it the New Hanmpshire way of doing things ...taxes are low but the fees on things are triple of anywhere else.
 

bcp

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We were there Teamster #730 was there as was #639

You put alot out there that I agree with you about but I just wanted to answer this first and to tell you my wife has been teaching for 23 years in a privet school so she doesn't get what other teachers get but we both agree that what is going on today with Teachers,Police ,Firemen and Nurses and people in the Military is dead wrong .....yes there need to be some changes but you can't tell me it better to go after them and children in the schools then to go after big business?

Didnt say it was better.
all Im saying is that people need to put their foot down and show the state that they DO NOT control what or where I buy.
If others want to keep paying more at the pump, or at the store, fine, let them.
I on the other hand am willing to actually spend more (time and fuel) to purchase out of state before I spend any tax in Maryland that I can avoid.

Im only in the state for another 6~8 years, then Im gone. I really dont care how much trouble the state gets in between now and then. Democrats have to be slapped hard to understand.
 

bcp

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...........again I don't disagree with you but do you realize that it was'nt O'Malley that did this it was Erlich?I call it the New Hanmpshire way of doing things ...taxes are low but the fees on things are triple of anywhere else.

Erlich is not the one trying to double the costs right now.

Erlich was not a good choice either, then put him in with the MD. GA? no where to go but down.
 

Giantone

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Erlich is not the one trying to double the costs right now.

Erlich was not a good choice either, then put him in with the MD. GA? no where to go but down.


.............I agree yet he was the one that left it for OMalley.Look I'm a republicain and it piss's me off we have noone who can step up and it makes me madder that the Dems do,I too am only here for another 6 or 7 years but as somone who has realatives in NJ....what ever we have it's better then Chris Chrissty.(sp)
 

bcp

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Read up on the increases from the OMalley team.

BILL INFO-2011 Regular Session-HB 1001

http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2011/Mar11/030411/030311-02.shtml

Plans to boost transportation funding are drawing discussion at the Maryland statehouse. Additional revenue is sought through a dime increase in fuel taxes and higher vehicle registration fees.
Truckers in the state say the tax and fee increases would have dire consequences on the industry.
Senate Majority Leader Rob Garagiola, D-Montgomery, and Delegate Bill Frick, D-Montgomery, have introduced bills that would hike the diesel tax to 34.25 cents per gallon – up from 24.25 cents. The gas tax would climb to 33.5 cents per gallon – up from 23.5 cents.
Beginning in 2013, the fuel tax would be tied to the annual percentage growth in construction costs. The distinction could add up to a one-cent increase each year.
Vehicle registration fees would also be increased by 50 percent.
 

Merlin99

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.............I agree yet he was the one that left it for OMalley.Look I'm a republicain and it piss's me off we have noone who can step up and it makes me madder that the Dems do,I too am only here for another 6 or 7 years but as somone who has realatives in NJ....what ever we have it's better then Chris Chrissty.(sp)
Why do you think this?
 
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