I read with dismay your editorial supporting every revenue increase proposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley ("The Sun's 2012 legislative agenda," Jan. 8). Has your editorial board ever met a tax, fee or toll increase it did not like?
You speak of doubling vehicle registration fees and tripling the flush tax as if it meant nothing. Look at all the money such proposals will remove from wage-earners' household budgets simply to fund an irresponsible state government. Supporting legislative initiatives of such magnitude is beyond all reason.
An administration that cannot be trusted to honor designated revenues (such as the Transportation Trust Fund) without a specific prohibition against such action (which your paper does not support) is not to be entrusted with additional revenue under the guise of trumped-up need.
Could you not bring yourself to recommend a sunset clause on the proposed major increases? Address the crisis (if there is one) and then roll back the additional increases to previous levels after two or three years. And make it the law.
State government is out of control, and The Baltimore Sun editorial board is aiding and abetting their behavior.
William Crabson, Easton