The politicians in Annapolis, led by Governor O'Malley, tell us that Maryland has a budget deficit problem. I respectfully disagree: What Maryland has is a spending problem.
Every time I open The Sun I read that the O'Malley gang is either proposing to raise taxes and fees or creating new taxes and fees. And all of this is to pay for grandiose new plans, now called "investments," to further expand the role of state government.
In times of economic hardship, the state should learn from its citizens and live within its means. Instead, the politicians are proposing one new tax after another in order to take in the hundreds of millions of additional dollars their new plans and proposals require.
The number of new tax proposals coming out of Annapolis is never-ending. They want to tax everything. Next thing you know they will even want to tax what's in our toilets.
Oops! Sorry, I forgot that they already have such a tax — and now they want to double it.
Iver Mindel, Cockeysville