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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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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.

A document issued by the Maryland National Guard on April 9 warns full-time Guard personnel to be aware of threats from local citizens protesting income taxes during grass roots events known as TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Parties. These possible threats may hurt someone’s feelings and that’s what’s really important after all, isn’t it? You betcha’.

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State senators used the Senate vote on Maryland’s $13.8 billion operating budget to complain that the Democrats were raiding the $5.2 million public financing fund for other election expenses in a partisan attempt to protect Gov. Martin O’Malley’s re-election bid.

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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.

Better click through to read the Maryland Senate Republican website. You need to see how Governor O’Malley and the Democrat crew are spending, and spending, and spending your tax dollars. The Preakness, the budget and more.

Read this please!

Rush Limbaugh said thanks to the state of New York’s new tax, dubbed the, ‘Millionaire Tax,’ he’s leaving the big apple, and he’s not coming back.

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More states are weighing major increases in income tax or sales tax to make up for plunging revenue.

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(BaltimoreSun.com via DIGG) Gov. Martin O’Malley signs a new tax bracket for millionaires into law. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller (left) and House Speaker Michael E. Busch joined the governor for yesterday’s signing ceremony. (Sun photo by Doug Kapustin / April 8, 2008)

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Ed. Note – The last thing Maryland needed was additional taxes on small business owners. Soon, if not now, Maryland will be too expensive for any business but WalMart and too expensive for any retiree or person with a limited income. Unless you are either enormously wealthy or dirt poor you won’t be living in Maryland. You can’t afford to.

Democrats are clueless. They are pricing business out of the state to pay for tax-and-spend projects during a budget shortfall. DESPITE stimulus funds the Maryland legislature is STILL spending 250 million on new school construction and STILL has a 500 million dollar shortfall this year. There is no budget restraint in Maryland only feel-good politics and a serious lust for continued power. The people of Maryland that voted for O’Malley and Mike Miller need to re-evaluate their choices. Are you aware of what your state legislature is doing with YOUR money?

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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Maryland Republican Party
James Pelura, DVM, MS
Chairman

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Justin Ready

April 8, 2009 410-263-2125

State Budget Language Calls for Disenfranchisement of Maryland Taxpayers

The Democrat leadership in the Maryland General Assembly has included language in an amendment attached to the state budget that would allow any additional federal funds received after the Legislative Session is over to be spent by House or Senate Committee Chairs alone with no oversight or debate by the entire legislature.

“This attempt to thwart the democratic process by allowing tax dollars to be spent without the oversight and debate that our representative form of government demands is one of the most underhanded and despicable examples to date of the destructive policies that result from one party rule,” said MDGOP Chairman Jim Pelura

“By using a little noticed addition to the budget, Governor O’Malley, President Miller and Speaker Busch are attempting to do an end-run around the open and fair allocation of taxpayer dollars.”

“This budget should not pass due to the total lack of fiscal responsibility that it represents. This horrendous attempt a back-room politics makes it even worse. I call on all members of the General Assembly, regardless of party affiliation, to reject this outrageous provision,” concluded Pelura.

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Washington, D.C., Apr 7 -

Congressman J. Randy Forbes (VA-04) released the following statement after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced significant cuts to the defense budget:

“Our national security needs should be determined by strategic planning not budgetary pressure. Today’s announcement of defense cuts is a reaction to the fiscal strain caused by trillions in bailout and stimulus spending, rather than a result of regular strategic review and overall threat analysis. In fact, the Department of Defense will not complete its own strategic review process until next year. Even this year, the Administration’s censoring of senior defense officials and classification of routine reports make it impossible to know what risk our nation is assuming as a result of these cuts.

“This announcement is especially concerning in that it comes at a time of both unmet needs as well as increased threats. Our Navy currently has $4.6 billion in unmet requirements and operates at a record-low level of ships since WWII. Yet, the Department of Defense announced today that they will shrink our naval fleet to ten carriers. North Korea made it clear this weekend that they will continue to develop long-range missiles, yet our missile defense program faces significant budget reductions.

“It goes without saying that we should achieve efficiency in our nation’s defense budget by eliminating wasteful programs, however it should be done with respect to strategic need rather than budget numbers.”

Congressman Forbes is Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee.

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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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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.

(RegularFolksUnited.com – by Ron Miller) “As we approach the end of the 21st century’s first decade, we are reaping the whirlwind brought about by one of the most deceptive and cunning politicians to come upon the scene in my generation. A man barely known outside of Illinois in the summer of 2004 is the President of the United States in 2009, becoming the leader of the world’s most powerful nation through an illusion not unlike the Wizard of Oz, all the while deflecting attention from the man behind the curtain.”

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(Investor’s Business Daily via DIGG) DEADLY RATIONING: The gatekeeper for Great Britain’s national health care system is denying cancer patients drugs that would extend their lives. Why? Because the medication is considered too expensive.

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