Will Someone Please Tell Martin O'Malley He'll NEVER Be President?

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by bmorefella

He may never win, but there is no doubt in my mind he will run in 2016, he will lose the primary and I could see him being a VP finalist for Hillary or Biden. You may not like his politics or high taxes but fact is he is the two term governor of one of the most prosperous states in the nation with a relatively low unemployment rate and yes he did raise taxes. But on the campaign trail raising taxes will equate to HE CLOSED A 2 BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT, that a republican could not!! I understand everyone's frustration with taxes and i hate paying them as well. But the state has to find a way to fix its crumbling infrastructure and build more schools because despite census numbers no municipality in this state is really getting smaller.

Been to Cumberland, Lonaconing, Luke or Westernport, lately?

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by bmorefella

He may never win, but there is no doubt in my mind he will run in 2016, he will lose the primary and I could see him being a VP finalist for Hillary or Biden. You may not like his politics or high taxes but fact is he is the two term governor of one of the most prosperous states in the nation with a relatively low unemployment rate and yes he did raise taxes. But on the campaign trail raising taxes will equate to HE CLOSED A 2 BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT, that a republican could not!! I understand everyone's frustration with taxes and i hate paying them as well. But the state has to find a way to fix its crumbling infrastructure and build more schools because despite census numbers no municipality in this state is really getting smaller.

A budget deficit inherited from a Democrat Governor (the Thornton Plan). Ehrlich tried to get casino gambling to fix that but the Democrat Legislators had moral qualms about gambling. That is until Ehrlich wasn't Governor any longer. Then their thinking evolved and gambling wasn't such a moral issue anymore.

If you follow the gambling narrative there shouldn't be a tax increase to fund schools because gambling money will pay for it. And monkeys will fly out of my ass.

Gas taxes? 51% of the gas tax revenues go to fund the Metro and other mass transit systems. Those systems service 8% of the State's population as riders.

[MidValleyDad]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Gas taxes? 51% of the gas tax revenues go to fund the Metro and other mass transit systems. Those systems service 8% of the State's population as riders.

When they aren't 'borrowed' to fund the General fund. Have any of the 'loans' been repaid?

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by MidValleyDad

When they aren't 'borrowed' to fund the General fund. Have any of the 'loans' been repaid?

No.

To be fair to O' Malley that's been going on since Don Schafer.

[BigCityDreamer]

Before 2008, who ever thought Obama would be president?

[reiflame]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Democrat Legislators had moral qualms about gambling.

Maryland has the worst Democrats in the country. Pro-tax and socially conservative. What the hell is the point?

[AeroGuyDC]

Originally Posted by bmorefella

He may never win, but there is no doubt in my mind he will run in 2016, he will lose the primary and I could see him being a VP finalist for Hillary or Biden. You may not like his politics or high taxes but fact is he is the two term governor of one of the most prosperous states in the nation with a relatively low unemployment rate and yes he did raise taxes. But on the campaign trail raising taxes will equate to HE CLOSED A 2 BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT, that a republican could not!! I understand everyone's frustration with taxes and i hate paying them as well. But the state has to find a way to fix its crumbling infrastructure and build more schools because despite census numbers no municipality in this state is really getting smaller.

I guess you are of the opinion that State spending is efficient and cannot be bothered with claims of fraud, waste, and abuse at all levels? The solution is to raise taxes when we're short, instead of finding ways to cut government fat?

[ay jayy]

But they did make cuts. There were furloughs for state workers, pay freezes, projects cancelled and postpones, etc... have you seen the salaries for state job postings? They are an absolute joke for this area. I can't believe that qualified people would accept those pay rates.

[Tom Lennox 70]

Originally Posted by ay jayy

But they did make cuts. There were furloughs for state workers, pay freezes, projects cancelled and postpones, etc... have you seen the salaries for state job postings? They are an absolute joke for this area. I can't believe that qualified people would accept those pay rates.

That is not enough. The state and federal workforce MUST be cut. Our state needs to lower taxes and reduce spending so that we can lower taxes. As a voter, I care about my taxes being low. That is the NUMBER ONE issue for me since it affects my life the most.......my other top issues are abortion (for religious reasons), illegal immigration (for personal and tax reasons), and transit-oriented development (which greatly ruins quality of life in ways you can't imagine). Where I am originially from, in Louisiana, politicians knew that if they DARED to even SUGGEST raising taxes, they would be punished for it next time election time comes around. Yet peopel in Maryland STILL vote Democrat after ALL the tax increases including the proposed gas tax, the electric bill incease for wind power, the alcohol, cigarette and INCOME taxes. I wonder if supporting abortion and illegal immigration and gun control is THAT important to the liberal elites in the People's Republic of Montgomery County and Howeird County that they think higher taxes is an affordable trade off? While these taxes hurt working people in rural areas.

I want my taxes lower. So if the state can't cut welfare, illegal alien benefits, and green energy subsidies, then they need to cut their state workers. Most state workers are lazy good for nothings anyway who brag about their nice paychecks and benefits. At least with federal workers there ARE important agencies like the FBI, Border Patrol, Customs, the Pentagon, NSA, TsA, USDA, CIA, DEA, ATF along with the useless ones. Most of the state workers like all the regulatory things, the transportation authority, the MVA are useless and incompetent. The only useful state workers I can think of are people who work in public universities, police officers, teachers and that's about it.

O'malley's war on rural Maryland will hurt him heavily in most of the nation. He is at least as bad if not worse than Obama. I think Obama simply slipped a lot due to inexperience and wasn't able to hide his shady past. O'Malley's hatred of American values might run even deeper than Obama's but O'Malley is a long time political machine and keeps his tracks and his possible history covered. With Obama what you see is probably as bad as it gets which IS pretty bad. But with O'Malley, I don't think we've seen the worst of him, not even with all these tax hikes, gun control, and capital punishment repeal and the illegal alien Dream Act.

[Cruzincat]

Both O'Malley and Obama use the following logic:

They have no problem spending (other people's) money, therefore, there is no spending problem. Full speed ahead!