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The State of Maryland’s main money man, Controller Peter Franchot, one of the tax and spend, fiscally-irresponsible Democrats is suddenly getting tough on tax scofflaws. More likely it is political opportunism and a desperate attempt to distance himself from O’Malley’s Raiders in the legislature. Franchot lent his support to the Internet tax bill and has done nothing to warn against the out-of-control spending in Annapolis that has gotten Maryland into the mess it is now in.  They didn’t use the so-called stimulus to preserve the state’s finances they squandered it. Now the Dems have decided they need to go after tax scofflaws? How interesting. Franchot should be doing this anyway. Why has he taken so long?

Franchot says in a recent campaign email, “My office is committed to ensuring that everyone pays their fair share, especially in these difficult economic times.”  Marylanders have been paying their fare share of new outrageous taxes since O’Malley was elected and Franchot has helped the agenda along the way. They are out of money and need more NOW. It’s like an addiction to these people.

I’m sorry, I don’t like tax cheats either but progressives much farther down the food chain. We need to vote the fiscally irresponsible scofflaws out of office this year. Franchot’s behavior speaks volumes. Use your vote and remove him from office.

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EyeOnAnnapolis.net 071609: “Comptroller Peter Franchot released Maryland’s June revenue figures in an open letter to Governor Martin O’Malley, Speaker Michael Busch and Senate President Mike Miller.”

The Democrats in Annapolis are just now getting it. Click the link above to read the entire story at EyeOnAnnapolis.net. This isn’t about slots, this is about financial malfeasance and incompetence in Annapolis by our elected law makers there.  They had several opportunities to stop this madness they now tout as a crisis. Where are you Democrat property owners and business people? We have to move the statists and progressives out of Annapolis in 2010. We just have to if we are to survive as a state.

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This blog gives you the names and states of Washington’s so-called Republican lawmakers that voted for Cap and Trade. When you begin to see your BGE bill almost double again as this program takes hold remember the people and states that promoted Cap and Trade.

Click here to meet the 8 Faux Republicans Who Just Taxed Your Life Away…

Is it time to start asking ourselves hard questions? People put these politicians in power. These politicians are voting for sweeping far-left ideological changes in our country that make no sense from a 9-12 perspective. We don’t have to vacation in these states, start a business in these states, consider relocating to these states do we? It may be time to avoid having anything to do with the districts and states these law makers represent. What else can we do if the people that should know better abandon us.

Sadly this list would also include a majority of the State of Maryland. Our law makers voted their far-left socialist ideology and not the will of the people. Cap and Trade is not compliant with the 9-12 principals and values. Not even some of the large environmental groups supported it.

The poor and middle class are the hardest hit in this scheme. This includes the low-income retired, elderly, disabled, minorities, and immigrants all trying to keep ahead of new taxes. They are already taxed to death from their paycheck and in property taxes if they own homes. In Maryland, sales taxes went up as has spending under Governor O’Malley DESPITE millions in stimulus money. Everyone will have far less to spend on essentials like prescription medicines once power bills go up. We are spending to support the politicians view of Utopia – their Animal Farm. The taxes we were told we would not pay if we elected the far left are being paid – just through socialized programs like health care and cap and trade.

I believe we were not told the truth about the impact of cap and trade. (The same is true in the on-going health care debate.) Now all Americans will discover what that impact is and every law maker’s district that supported this madness should look to themselves when they begin whining about increased personal energy expenses. The rest of us may privately consider whether or not we want to have anything to do with the far-left areas of the country that put these politicians in power. Those voters believe they can invent socialist programs for everyone else and ram them swiftly through Congress. The rest of us can make personal decisions about how we spend what money we have left.

This link gives you the FULL ROLL CALL VOTE for the American Clean Energy and Security Act
also known as Cap and Trade.

You might also like to read:

Baltimore Reporter blog: Narrow House Vote Approves Massive Energy Tax Increase for “Global Warming”

The Carroll Standard: Eight RINO’s Go Left, 44 Democrats Get it Right

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(EyeOnAnnapolis.net via DIGG) A 17 year old teenager from the 400 block of Larkspur Lane in Severna Park is considered critically missing by the Anne Arundel County Police Department.

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One of Maryland’s budget-balancing tactics – asking millionaires to pay more money to the state – appears to be backfiring as the number of the highest-earning taxpayers dwindles with the flagging economy. A year ago, Maryland became one of the first states in the nation to create a higher tax bracket for millionaires…

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As of 2009 in Maryland, “insurance companies wishing to do business…must disclose any policies they or their predecessor firms provided to slave owners until 1865…”

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Ron Miller Maryland Senate 2010 Facebook Application now approved and listed in Facebook applications directory.

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I am so tired of watching smiling Democrats on national TV telling their audience how confused they are that people attend tea parties. They say, “We just lowered taxes. We gave them a tax break!”

You people gave us nothing and you know it.

The few lousy dollars we might get back on our pay checks are already going to twenty plus percent increases in LOCAL AND STATE property taxes. Sales taxes in my state were conveniently raised by a new Democrat governor a year ago January. The last time property taxes went up they went up the maximum amount possible. Taxes are going up EVERYWHERE. One can only assume that the Democrat talking heads know they are not telling us the truth during their interviews! These tea parties are a statement of our frustration with NATIONAL, STATE, COUNTY, and LOCAL governments (including SCHOOLS) OUT OF CONTROL. You fools are spending us into oblivion!

I hear Juan Williams on Fox spinning as “most Americans feel they are paying the right amount of taxes.” What are you smoking Juan? I’m fifty-five years old wondering how I am going to survive by the time I’m sixty. Quite a few baby boomers are in the same boat. Our retirements are valueless and our taxes HAVE BEEN and ARE on the increase.

The Federal tax spin by Democrats is an obfuscation.

How is this country going to PAY for this outrageous spending? It is going to come out of our taxes, everybody’s taxes at some point. You don’t fool us anymore. You have driven up the cost of doing business so that business will pass on their increased taxes to US. You know that is the truth. Yet you politicians on the left sit on camera and smile and nod.

The tea parties were and are still a strong public statement that Democrats fear. When they fear a movement or an idea that might have an effect on their power they obfuscate and spin.

Your smiles are shallow and words are spin. I don’t believe you or the Democrats running the state of Maryland have done anyone any good except spin the poor and middle class back into a tax hell.

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In pouring rain/wind all ages/races/creeds/political persuasions came to Annapolis, MD harbor to voice & wave signs of opinion about the Obama/Pelosi/Reid administration in an urgent, focused protest where all literally bonded in the elements; make no mistake – this is the beginning – the Declaration of Independence was no mistake; we honored it.

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Take a minute to visit an outstanding Internet news source for Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. EyeOnAnnapolis.net is worth a look. I’m adding them to my Morning Coffee FireFox button. This is a blog to check every day.

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Maryland State Senate candidate Ron Miller spoke at yesterday’s Annapolis Tea Party. Ron fills us in on his impressions of the people and the event on his blog. The grass roots events thought enough of Ron to ask him to speak. I think that was a compliment since at many tea parties across the nations the people’s frustration with politicians kept politicians off the stage. Politicians were not asked to speak at many events.

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Annapolis MD, (WUSA) Urged on by conservative talk radio hosts, viral e-mails, and Facebook friends, hundreds turned up in a miserable cold rain Wednesday to watch Maryland Del. Don Dwyer toss mocked up boxes of tea into the Annapolis harbor.


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Ron Miller, candidate for Maryland State Senate opposing Mike Miller (D) for District 27 in Calvert and Prince Georges County understands clearly that Annapolis law makers are unrestrained:

“Then we hear this week that despite the severe budget shortfalls at the state level which were only partially ameliorated by federal “stimulus” funds, O’Malley STILL KEEPS SPENDING to the tune of $1.5 billion in proposed increases to the 2010 budget.

Is it possible for an entire government to have a spending addiction? If addiction is characterized by loss of control, preoccupation, compulsivity, narrowing of interests, dishonesty, guilt and chronic relapse, then Annapolis (and Washington, for that matter) needs to go on the couch.”

This new post at Ron’s blog Reflections really gets one thinking about our current governor and about those that claim to represent us.

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(Reflections)  – Ron Miller of Huntingtown, MD makes his formal announcement to run Against incumbent Mike Miller for Maryland State Senate, District 27 in 2010.

Click through to Ron’s Reflections blog and meet Ron. 

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Senate president Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) chastised the pastor of a Bowie church this morning for including too much Jesus in a prayer that opened the day’s proceedings. That pastor is now speaking out, saying he was confused and disappointed by the criticism.

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James Pelura, DVM, MS
Chairman

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Justin Ready
April 7, 2009 410-263-2125

From MDGOP: Restore Driver’s License Security Provision to Maryland Budget

Maryland Republican Party Chairman Jim Pelura today released the following statement on the removal budget language during the General Assembly Budget conference committee that prohibited the MVA from providing drivers licenses to those who cannot prove they are legally present in the country:

“The language put into the budget by Senator David Brinkley to prohibit the MVA from giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants was important not only for the safety of Marylanders but to ensure that we are in full compliance with federal law, “Pelura said. “Its removal by the Democrats on the budget conference committee shows Marylanders once again that Governor O’Malley and Annapolis Democrats don’t care about the public’s concerns. O’Malley and his General Assembly allies are more interested in funneling taxpayer resources towards those here illegally rather than protecting Maryland citizens and legal immigrants.”

“I call on the budget conference committee to reinstate the Brinkley language and for Governor O’Malley to show some actual leadership by protecting Maryland’s citizens and driver’s license security.”

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Jump over to the Maryland House Republlican Caucus website and watch the video on the Maryland State budget. Remember if you expect to vote intelligently in 2010 you need to remain informed. Part of that responsibility is taking advantage of the political news from those who represent us in Annapolis. In this video House Minority Whip Chris Shank and Delegate Gail Bates discuss the state budget recently passed by the House.

Visit the Maryland House Republican Caucus

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Social Change Project Mercatus, State and Local Policy Project at George Mason University.

“This paper presents the first-ever comprehensive ranking of the American states on their public policies affecting individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres. We develop and justify our ratings and aggregation procedure on explicitly normative criteria, defining individual freedom as the ability to dispose of one’s own life, liberty, and justly acquired property however one sees fit, so long as one does not coercively infringe on another individual’s ability to do the same.”

” New York is the least free by a considerable margin, followed by New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Maryland.”

Read the details here.

Download the study PDF file here.

Thanks to BobEhrlich.com and Ron Miller for the news.

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(Ron Miller – Huntingtown) There’s another thing in life that’s as sure as death and taxes; if politicians find out that people are angry about an issue, they swoop in like superheroes to declare they will save the day. When they do that, I suggest that rather than letting out a cheer, you tug on their capes and ask them, “What exactly are you going to do?”

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(CalvertNews.info – 031709) By Elbee Foote) PRINCE FREDERICK – A grassroots “tea party” protest movement comprised of Republicans, Democrats and independents concerned about the direction in which our nation is headed has broken out across America and is now landing in U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s own backyard. Ordinary folks have had enough and hundreds, most of whom have never engaged in a protest before, are volunteering.

(Ed note: Sponsored in part by the Calvert Republicans but this is a cross-party event schedule for Sunday, 3/22/09 1430 hrs in Solomons, Maryland. Please read the complete article at CalvertNews.info for all information!

You can also download this PDF flyer regarding the event. Hand it out to friends or put it in your office window. Thanks to the Calvert GOP.)

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In response to car accidents caused by text messaging and health concerns of minors in automobiles, the Maryland General Assembly is considering heavier restrictions against motorists’ freedoms.

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Apparently in Maryland it was legal, until February 20 of this year, to change lanes without signaling. It all makes sense now. Everyone drives like they are omnipotent NASCAR racers. Even police don’t signal. Well Maryland is finally out of the dark ages realizing what a rolling multi-ton pile of metal can do to the human body–many deaths later. It is now illegal to change lanes without signaling. This should be one more tool in a police officer’s fight against aggressive drivers. Three violations in a row are required for reckless aggressive driving citations and one of those in the state of California has always been failure to signal when changing lanes.

I’m happy that this little over sight was corrected. Now it will, unfortunately, take generations to bring Maryland drivers up to par with the safer states. Are there safer states? Post for another time.

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