Virginia Beats the Crap out of Maryland ...

Tale of Two States One run by Democrats

“ Maryland Recommendations Pass a constitutional amendment to prevent raiding of Transportation Trust Fund. Implement 15 cents per gallon tax, phased in over three years. Increase vehicle registration fees by 50 percent. Increase title taxes from 6 percent to 6.5 percent. Increase mass transit fares. Double vehicle emissions fees, to $28 every two years. Increase miscellaneous MVA fees. [Evening Capital] Marylanders woke to that news.   Just a few months ago Governor Martin O'Malley raised the state's sales tax, promising it would take care of all those new increases.  He is of course a democrat, so I knew he was lying.  Not so most of my fellow Marylanders. Maryland and Virginia are separated by the Potomac River, but it may as well be the Gulf of Mexico.   The only state newspaper, The Baltimore Sun, once— (proudly) proclaimed "Maryland Overtaking Massachusetts as Most Liberal State!"  Since there is virtually no manufacturing left, and way more than 50%  are employed by misgovernment at some level, there is little hope things will change.  At the ballot box, anyway.   Virginia has what I consider to be the best government in the United States.  And it shows.  Republicans.  Conservative Republicans. That's the difference. This Just In Maryland Mulls Fee Hike -- For Flushing Toilet... ”