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I am shaking in my boots. The Trust Fund Baby gonna thow another hissy fit?
You Dallasonians. Car crazed and empty-headed.
Moth, you must be from my part of Maryland. Although I split to NOVA many many moons ago. I think the govna is raising rates because Maryland's tax base over time has left the scene and this tax increasing frenzy (other tax increases too, like a flush tax?) is an effort at treading water.
Moth, you must be from my part of Maryland. Although I split to NOVA many many moons ago. I think the govna is raising rates because Maryland's tax base over time has left the scene and this tax increasing frenzy (other tax increases too, like a flush tax?) is an effort at treading water.
I reside in the Peoples Republic of MoCo. Its fiscal insanity at both the county and state level.
What is it with you people and railroads? Honestly, they're either economically viable or they're not.
They'll be economically viable as soon as government stops interfering.
And contrary to what you want to believe, initiating a goal of shifting 85% of your over-the-road freight to rail would create 3 Million to 4 Million permanent good paying jobs including unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled, semi-professional, professional, clerical and managerial jobs that cannot be "off-shored."
And there are numerous additional benefits to doing that.
O'Malley is not doing this to encourage people to ride our overcrowded and dysfunctional transit system (I do). He is not doing this to deter people away from cheap oil.
He is doing this because he and the other fools who run Maryland cannot balance the books or do anything that resembles fiscal sanity.
We already pay high taxes here and yet we are continually nickled and dimed for more. How much is enough? Why doesn't O'Malley try to tame spending? Is that concept really so bad, so undoable?
Now, take your ignorance and your hackneyed insults and get the hell out of here.
OK? And what are the consquences of higher gas prices? People tend to use less gas...... There are intended and unintended consequences to everything just so you know.
Or MD can not raise the gas tax and continue down its same path as government leaders, dems and repubs, are both equally good at wasting money.
Here in Texas we have the opposite problem, our taxes are so low nothing is funded properly and we have an exploding population which is recipe for disaster. Texas will be like Cali with all the overcrowded and inadequate infrastructure.
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Parasites
Public Transpo Refuseniks
Materialistic, Superficial, and fanatically Christian.
You're welcome.
Which I would kick you with were I willing to ever set foot in that tacky shopping mall masquerading as a city.
LOLZ. Oh nos internet threats! I bet he sure is scared of you...
As it should be. Rail transportation can help reduce dependency on oil. If anything, it sounds like the perfect application, as opposed to just more of the same.
I don't use rail, why should I support it? I mentioned before the buses running around in my county, brand new with no one on them. You think that's an adequate use of taxes?
If you wanted to reduce oil consumption and reduce the wear and tear on our highways go right to the root of the problem, subsidize and provide incentive to use rail for freight. Although it's an obvious and most likely best solution that won't score political points compared to shiny new trains for commuter traffic will it?
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Although I split to NOVA many many moons ago. I think the govna is raising rates because Maryland's tax base over time has left the scene and this tax increasing frenzy (other tax increases too, like a flush tax?) is an effort at treading water.
It took very little effort to skip across the Wilson Bridge some 24 years ago.
