"OMG OMALLEY SUX WERE MOVIN TO VIRGINIA!"

Thought i'd set the tone for the flame fest sure to commence. Carry on.

Thank you once again Delegates for screwing the motoring public. After "stealing" a million dollars from the transportation fund over the past years you stick it to the motorist to fund these grand schemes of our big spending Governor. You just do not have the back-bone to cut some spending?

All of this money, via your burdensome tax load on the motorist, takes money from our family. We now have to do without some things we would like to have purchased. Can't the State of Maryland do the same? You are all just too busy "kissing up" to our big spending Gov. Tim has come for an Annapolis House and Senate cleaning.

Geez I'm so Surprised :(

Names of Local legislators that voted for it Please.With in 35 miles .No excuse accepted .

As I stated and some readers have pointed out in my Local Voice blog Maryland does a really poor job of managing money. The Transportation Trust fund has been raided by the State before, and money used for other means.

Bryan, please publish the vote of each delegate so that those of us who are fed up with being taxed to death by these clowns can vote their greedy butts out of office. Same for the Senate vote. I'm sure this info is available online but, a list here on Patch would be convenient.

Why did the state raise the tolls, So they could fix the roads, Why did the state legalize gambling, so they could pay teachers more and fix the roads. These politicians know they are getting a big pension when they get out and could care less about the people that live here. Remember the names that said yes and vote no for them in the next election.

Carl, we voted for these people to be in office. When election day comes up don't vote for these people.

One party state dems can do what they want when they want with no fear of being held accountable. Baltimore city, Pg, and Montgomery Co will run this state into the ground. Move to another state is the only answer.

Naptownbll that is not the only answer. It is called we do not re-elect these people in office and get new people in there.

I have been a Democrat most of my life.
With no absolute Guarantee of any Tax Money collected going to the Transportation Fund and staying there, it just turn into a giant piggybank for the Democrats to raid.
You just can not trust the Democrats in place.
They all need to be voted out!!!!!!!!!!

Jim C.

Evets: is the ratio of dems to repubs really 98-41? Honest question. Had no idea it was that lopsided.

HOD nothing more than a bunch of cock roaches.

How sad for our residents. From the arrogant Speaker of the House to the Arrogant Senate President, term limits need to be reality

Great headline. Did anyone else notice?

WOW, as a small family business man that has employees and hopes too keep his business going all these taxes are going to drive my lawn care business broke, I have too pay highway taxes for my mower and equipment and more taxes will keep me from growing my 28 yr old company.
Way too go !!!
business man

I don't understand why everyone is suddenly so upset. Realizing the need many years ago to begin voting these people out, I have voted as such and hope that finally folks are waking up. The level of arrogance of the very people who were elected to represent us, is nothing short of astounding. Frankly, I just don't care anymore because I have had my fill of this nonsense and when the time is right, I am getting the heck out of Maryland.

Well, I've posted this before and I'll say it again. Our time in Maryland is coming to an end. We had hoped to wait until retirement, but just the thought of dealing with these jokers for that many more years sickens my stomach. I've never voted to re-elect anyone that already holds office in this state. If others eventually joined in, we wouldn't need term limits. The voters would handle that problem. But, this is Merryland and the majority of voters are either sheep or dead.

20 cents per gallon? That'll make MD among the most expensive in the country.

I can support the gas tax but only if we stop funding roads with revenue from income, property, and other non-automobile related taxes. At that point it would become a means to it's own end. But without a reduced dependence on other non-automobile related taxes, I can not support it.

All the dummies who voted for OweMalley and OweBama are finally getting what they voted for. More Taxes! HIgher gas tax, Security Security Income Tax Increase of 2%, and now a 1 Trillion dollar federal tax hike. I hope they are happy now.

Has anybody noticed that their paychecks this year are smaller than last year? You really should have read what these 2 knuckleheads were all about before you voted for them and all of their chronies. I know I did.

As a renowned wizard that evokes spells to enact social justice I am thrilled beyond belief for the new taxes. I mean honestly folks, did you really believe any other outcome? The goal is to seperate you, the taxpayer, from the money in YOUR wallet and redistribute to someone else. How else can that be achieved but with more taxes. Then again, I have no remorse concerning the damage the waving of my social justice wand wields. After all, it is all of you that have voted democrat so often that this state is run by that one and only party. This is the same party that tells you that benefits for illegals and others will not cost you, the taxpayer. That is so blatantly false that my wizardly self cannot help but laugh out loud. As to the advice of those to vote those people out, do you really thing that the party in charge will not have thousands lined up under same day registration and voting to cancel your vote with a fraudulent one? So naive, back to Camelot.

I live in Bethesda and I already buy about .20 cent a gallon cheaper gasoline when I have to drive to nearby Virginia. Instead of shopping closer to my house and paying MD sales tax, I'll go to VA to shop and buy gas. I hate to say it as a Democrat, but I'm even considering moving to Virginia or California when I slow down or retire. If it's going to be as expensive as California, why not live there? The housing costs and taxes are about the same, but the weather's better and that's not only more pleasant, but saves big money on utilities.

I think that the pain of more taxes is a very needed and required outcome for the automatons of this state. Must vote democrat....must vote democrat...must vote democrat....In case you have missed the news for the past 3 months, every single democrat proposal involves an increase in taxes and or fees. Fiscal cliff, more taxes? check. Gun control laws, fees for registration and licensing? check. Our government's budget with increased taxes? check. Therefore I do not feel compassion or sympathy for those that pulled the lever for more taxes. It is however a very humorous issue in that it got 1ke/Steve/FIFA out of bed early. The batphone in his batcave must have been ringing off the hook from party headquarters to get on the patch and post against those that will actually have the fortitude to vote against dems now that it will hit their own pocketbook once again. Tell headquarters I said hi Schenck.

No wonder people are leaving MD! The three stooges in Annapolis (Busch, Miller, O'Malley) keep putting it to the residents of this state. This will affect everyone and they just plainly don't care.

I guess the people of MD are geeting their dues since they keep on putting these clowns in office. One official it will only add $10 a month by 2016 if you drive 15,000 miles. THis will effect some people in major ways. It is time to vote these clowns out out of office and that includes anyone who keeps raising all kinds of taxes. Out of state living looks better all the time.

People are suffering now and this will just burden them more.

Owe Malley, 39th tax increase and Mike Millers vote for it only shows that those two must go now, and it's time to make the dimbo's that voted for it to pay. I've had to keep my costs down for the last several year, didn't have a fund I could steal from and it's time for those greedy bast@rds to tighten their belts. Problem is there is too many morons voting for them. .

Will every body quite crying and just pay!!!!!
It' for the Children!!!!!!!

No it's for the teacher !!!

No wait's cause the people who fly the helo's so they can get a $20,000 pay raise.

Or is it because the people just keep being ****STUPID**** and electing one party to run the state

"United Socialist States of America" will be the new name if you keep going down this road.

All right...circle up...turn out the lights...

Have fun, but don't forget to pay for what you get wherever you go.

"The number of suburban residents living in poverty rose by nearly 64 percent between 2000 and 2011, to about 16.4 million people, according to a Brookings Institution analysis of 95 of the nation's largest metropolitan areas. That's more than double the rate of growth for urban poverty in those areas. " http://yhoo.it/ZVscCz

Most money goes to mass transit, with ridership around 8%. Can't afford gas to get to work, see ya at the bus stop. And our boat gas tax for the shity roads will be stolen also.

Wow. Any way to raise revenue for transportation infrastructure will hurt a little. But let's get a grip here. Gas fluctuates seasonally from 50 to 70 cents a gallon during each year. Gas prices were found to vary by 40 cents from one station to another on the same day in Montgomery County. The sky will not fall if the gas tax is increased. But we will soon be in a bad place if we don't raise the funds we need to maintain and expand our transportation system.

This is all the fault of GOP theft at the all levels government. Former President George W. Bush slashed the tax money paid by the States which was normally returned to the States and therefore all of the 50 States had to start raising taxes and fees and cut vital spending. Former Governor Ehrlich inherited a State government which was in the Black and bought his way into the State House by taking the State Rainy Day Fund and handing out tiny bribes to the voters in the form of small refunds (Bush did the exact same thing). Privatizing government has occurred at all levels and privatization just means allowing crooked business middle men to get their hands on your tax dollars. Privatization equals government corruption. Our services get slashed, decent government jobs with benefits are gone and replaced with contractors who don't care about anything other than finding ways to charge 'the government' more money.
Privatization of government is the problem. The solution is to end privatization and have government services run by dedicated civil servants. Public financing of elections is the solution. Get dirty business money out of politics and our politicians pockets!

The US Senate passes the very first budget since the release of the iPad.

They should all get a huge raise!

Since Annapolis Rose is going all the way back to Bush, why don't we go back to 1996. In 1996 Obama co-litigated a lawsuit against Citibank that stated that Citibank's refusals on mortgage loans was racially motivated and not based on financial formulas. He engaged his activist friends in ACORN and elsewhere that picketed these institutions and disrupted their businesses until they settled. More than 50% of those loans defaulted. Based on Annapolis Rose's criteria we can now fully blame Obama for the housing crisis. When you count how he blocked a bill in the senate to regulate fannie and Freddie from making more of those loans, we can accurately say that Maryland and its housing problems and bailout fallout is the fault of Obama.

Of the 44,000 NEW jobs that Owe'Malley professes to create with these insane tax increases, I would bet that the majority will be for ILLEGAL ALIEN workers. Therefore, the majority of the money that will be paid, with our tax dollars, will go OUT of this country! There is no doubt that the Democrats in Annapolis, and all over this country for that matter, DO NOT CARE about "We The People"! Something MUST be changed and it has to be NOW!!!

"Of the 44,000 NEW jobs that Owe'Malley professes to create with these insane tax increases, I would bet that the majority will be for ILLEGAL ALIEN workers. "

That's a pretty stupid statement.

Wow, the Purple Line might actually be built before we all die - awesome.

"The bill would increase the state's tax on gas by more than 20 cents to 43.7 cents per gallon on July 2016." I understand Bryan Sears has his obvious agenda and political leanings that he tries to forward in these "news" postings and usually I'm fine with that (though it would be nice if this guy was demoted to the "blog" section where these obvious agendas belong), but in this case he's chosen to take it a step further and simply make up stuff.

First, there's no way to tell how high the sales tax will add in real dollar terms BECAUSE IT'S A PERCENTAGE. Gas might cost 3 bucks a gallon in 2016 or it might cost 6 bucks a gallon - Bryan Sears doesn't see the future, as far as I know. Just report the sales tax as a percent and quit trying to twist/guess numbers so they seem more extreme than they are.

And in case anyone is interested in the real numbers, under the House plan the state would impose a 3 percent sales tax, phased in over three years (1% a year). That would translate into another 10.8 cents per gallon at the pump by July 2016, analysts say.

Seems the comments reflect the voters in Md. The smart ones see the problems with ever increasing taxes the majority who voted in the politions support the concept of tax and spend. I have the liberal solution. The state should just take your entire pay check and pay you an allowance. Then it would be equal for everyone. We could all line up for public transportation get our food stamps, our public housing, and lets not forget our Obama care. Equality for all no taxes needed. The government would have all the money. Come to think of it I believe it has already been tried. I think they called it socialism. After all it worked well in Russia until it failed but it is still working in Cuba. I just don't understand why people are trying to leave Cuba?
Al

It is amazing. every single legislative session ends with the Dems raising taxes on the already struggling people of this state. Sometimes, they even call for special sessions JUST to raise taxes. When will it end?????

"I just don't understand why people are trying to leave Cuba?"

Their not. Actually people are flocking to Cuba. They are building more 4 Star resorts there than you can shake a stick at. The American expat community is booming also.

Of course Schenck/Jack Hays/Steve/1ke/FIFA would talk about cuba. He hates America because people with skill and talent can succeed. Steve is the type of person that agrees with the principal of Mass. that tried to cancel honors night because it would have hurt the feelings of students that tried but did not make the honor roll.

What are you talking about DoDo? People with skill and talent can succeed in Cuba too. people with skill and talent can succeed just about everywhere.

You espouse an America in which success is punished by punitive taxation. Where the government has the right to tax incrementally until the point where the person leaves that area of expertise. You talk about the haves, and the have nots. You see success as not a matter of personal achievement, but rather the work of the communal such as the famous "you didn't build that" speech.

When have I even mentioned taxes? Success is almost always a matter of personal achievement.

You are spouting off about things you know nothing about.

Do not slander other people! Get off your behinds and E-mail the legisltors in your district and tell them what you think. Participate in your community organizations and where appropriate speak up about why these people are unfit for office. We all know that the legislature blindly follows O'mally, Bush, and Miller. I am a registered Democrat who votes for the best person. I am finding few democratic offficeholders who merit my vote anymore.

Gee Steve, maybe every single time you defend the party and their tax increases.

You are see the unraveling of the American culture brought about by unimaginable inequality of outcomes that forms the very texture of our daily lives. You don't like how it looks and you don't like where it is heading.

If you lived in the Hamptons; Rye, NY; Scarsdale; Potomac, MD; Cohasset, MA or the Upper East Side of Manhattan, things would be looking good for you.

At this point you are the cheapside public relations arm of the disgustingly wealthy in America.

I have a lot more in common with you than the folks at the front of the line who you so adamantly defend. Your turn will never, ever come.

Wannabe rich boy, servant of the king, one step removed from Jester.

English should be declared the Official Language of Maryland.

What is YOUR reaction to a proposed National Sales Tax of 1% on every purchase up to $20, 000, that would be applied to paying down Americas deficit?

The proposed tax would expire after 10 years.

How about a VAT that lasts forever?

WE need to create a FACEBOOK page and list all those who votes for this bill and have thousands of people like the page and agree to vote those fools out of office next election and get the media involved and email the results to these fools so they can see what is headed there way for next election

Senate will be voting on this matter , so we need to contact this level of persons preparing to vote for this bill and VOICE our feelings to them ASAP and let them know that if they pass this bill to prepare to find new work asap as next election they will be voted out.
SO can ANYONE post the names and numbers of those in Senate so we can call them and let them know our feeling..asap..

And more money from responsible citizens goes to single "baby" mommas and welfare status humans who wish to "not" rather than try too. Looks like jaysus is bringin more hope to the peoples who don't.

What get my ire is that for the past 10 - 15 years, Maryland has been completely surrounded by states that has gambling casinos. And all of this time, the money has been going from out of this state to the others. Gambling is a sure fire way to raise revenue and I don't give a hoot who is against gambling. Thanks to Michael Busch and his anti-gambling crusade a few years ago.

If O'Malley, somehow, is nominated as the democratic candidate for President in 2016, God forbid, he ain't getting my vote.

Oh God how I hate this state anymore. Florida here I come...I sure hope the members of the house read the comments by the citizens of this formerly proud state. It really is time for them to go.

Highway Toll Fees:

Should west bound traffic on the Bay Bridge pay Toll Fees?

You pay it eastbound, since you will eventually return, and the toll is scheduled to increase steadily over the next few years.

In response to 1ke/Steve/FIFA and the many other identities. Inequality of outcomes are a simple and basic fact of humanity going back to the dawn of mankind. What we can achieve as a society is an equal opportunity to succeed. That is why people like Ben Carson have your panties all bunched up and in a wad. That is why you have typed several posts attacking this person, talking about them being to big for their britches...etc...etc..Why? It is because Dr. Carson is a minority who grew up in poverty in a single parent household with an illiterate mother. Did she teach the younger Carsons to step up to the dole with open arms? No, she worked 3 jobs to provide for them and taught them the value of an education, which gave them an opportunity to succeed in life. What did Ben do? He went from being called a "dummy" and being bullyed into being the person that fellow students asked for answers. When he became financially successful, what did that evil, or what you call "disgusting" wealthy person do? They established scholarships for those in need not merely based on financial criteria and grades, but on their humanitarian actions and how they treated their fellow man. Why is 1ke and the other identities so alarmed by this and not congratulatory? It is because this success story was not inherently dependent upon government, but personal accountability and the private use of funds to give opportunities to others to ascend out of poverty like themselves.

A single counter-example (good for Dr. Carson) gets more keystrokes than the most basic data concerning race and wealth in America. http://bit.ly/WOE0Yc

To a man worth, say, $5 million a $5000 donation is proportional to a $53 donation from the American earning the average income.

Yes, the Pharaoh, experienced a better outcome. So did the Kings of England, the Czars, the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Waltons, Larry Ellison and Michael Jordan.

You are a hopeless shill for the super-wealthy in America and service them with your every word.

Unlike yourself, I am just a taxpayer with an opinion. Nobody endorses me, nor reimburses me for time spent here or other websites. Have any of you Patch posters considered why Obama has so many records sealed? I will give you a clue. It is not about his birth, or anything speculative like that, it is about the Marxist influences and associations and organizations that he was involved with at that time. You will not find a paper of his to read, no thesis, no legal briefs or documents. It is because like 1ke/many others, he is a Marxist that does not believe in equal opportunity but equal outcomes with the force of the federal government behind it. For example, if you study and do well in college he feels that your success and wages should be redistributed to someone else that partied in college and dropped out to work a low wage job, a 99 percenter as he would say. Others such as myself feel no need to help the clueless, but are aware of the need for taxation to help those that are helpless due to no behavior of their own.

Being a citizen means nothing to you, Whizz. You advocate cut-throat competition and dog-eat-dog economic life.

Your naive assumptions about why a few people get rich and the vast majority get little to nearly none are corrosive to the republic.

The advantages that accrue to the offspring of the wealthy and well-to-do are huge. The edge that inherited wealth bestows is unmistakable. Social connections are deterministic. An education is precious and largely the province of the middle class and upper-middle class in America. These are called social capital.

If you have it, you have a chance in your "quality" world of dog-eat-dog Social Darwinism.

Should private organizations continue to received tax payer money?

What you fail to realize 1ke is that Capitalism in comparison to other economic models has done more to lift those out of poverty than any other system. Look at the poor in this country, and compare their situation to 3rd world countries. It is only your opinion and Marxist views that have this "haves and have nots" mentality. Advantages of birth do not relate to equal outcomes. What does amuse me mightily however is how your ideas and political affiliations are in such complete contrast that they are laugh out loud. You claim that an education that is precious, yet deny the reality that the party you are an activist of litigates consistently against schools that are successful. Louisiana, for example is an example of such things. You also do not decry the fact that Obama eliminated the DC voucher program. You and your liberal mantra of hypocrisy and "that is for thee, but not for me" is evident in Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the other cities that are in ruins because of that philosophy. I cannot help but laugh at how 600 million dollars vanished in the Detroit public school system, yet nobody could explain how that happened. Tell us mister operative, what advantage did Ben Carson have? Maybe we could all take you seriously if you actually wanted to solve the public education crisis. Instead, you will never confront the teachers unions that maintain a status quo of failure.

Thank you for the advice. On the post of Steve/other names commenting on the sealed records. You are wrong in many ways. The president had passport travel records sealed, roommate information sealed, and his papers written in college sealed. These are all things not covered in the federal law that keeps transcript and financial aid information protected.

None of his records are sealed. You are just parrotting the party propaganda as usual.

http://factcheck.org/2012/07/obamas-sealed-records/

Louisiana's circumstances are far too complex for your one-liner. Assuming that you want to be informed--buy for a moment, not sell--try this: http://dianeravitch.net/category/louisiana/

Of Detroit, I know little except that it is a collapsing city. I have wracked my brain though, but can't find $600 million worth of scandal:
http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Detroit_Public_Schools,_Michigan

It would make sense that the smart and successful people like you put as much effort into strengthening public education, which includes sending their children, as you do into finding work-arounds and alternatives. Do you subcontract out a responsibility of government? Is that a pattern?

Hey, rich people let the chillun' down when Federal funds were withdrawn? Ah do declay-uh!

Once again your hypocrisy is hilarious and astounding. You post about the need for gun control to protect the "children", yet have no interest in the welfare of children that are let down by a system that decries teacher evaluation. It is not even a debatable issue that you have no clue that the Chicago strike was not over wages, but instead over teacher evaluations.

In effect, you have no problem with the teachers unions being exempt from forms of evaluation that are involved in almost all occupations. As long as they provide political soldiers on the frontlines of liberal causes you have no problem with them telling parents that they have no right to judge whether or not they are incompetent and in effect damaging to the children's education. That was evident in how they also wanted the city of Chicago to rehire previously fired teachers before new hires in the school system

There is also the matter of how a teacher can not only be incompetent but cause harm to students physically and even molest them and it takes years of receiving salary and pension payments to finally terminate them. John Stossel did a segment in which he took the procedural requirements necessary to terminate a teacher in the state of California and rolled it across the floor because it had so many pages. We all understand your agenda of Marxism and liberalism in which the people you claim to defend wind up worse from the effort.

Teachers are currently evaluated and have been for a very long time. Yes, the evaluation procedure was one reason for the strike. Privatization was another. Renaissance 2010 was another. School closings, which happened anyway, was another.

How do you measure whether a teacher is good or bad? Teachers in Chicago--teachers everywhere, in fact--have a critique of a system of evaluation that is based on ridiculous assumptions, data gathered for one purpose using a valid methodology being used for another purpose, and invalid mathematical models.

Again, I think you need to study this more, in particular, how school districts, including Maryland were bullied into the absurdities in the scramble for Race to the Top money.

It takes a competent administrator and a tincture of time to fire an incompetent teacher. Incompetent administrators can't do it. Stossel is an ambulance chaser.

I do not see public education as bearing any particular political bias. I know a little about public education.

Are you getting mad again? It is showing in your time stamps are grouped together once again. How many more user names are you going to use to debate your posts on here? Should I address posts to each one of your names? The angrier you get the more obvious you make it that you are just a political operative using multiple user names. When you file taxes, do you have to file for each and every user name?

ATTENTION :::

We can still stop this tax by calling your Senator and let them know this is not a good deal and you and your family would remember their vote on this matter come election time and so please vote NO on this issue.

http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/05sen/html/senal.html

Aw. Look how cute it is watching Jack Hays/Fifa/Steve/Frank and others actually answering himself in his posts. Do your handlers back at party headquarters know that everyone on Patch has identified you as an operative that does this for a living? Do you get paid more to stay on one website, or do you get more money based on the amount you post? I am sure that everyone that posts on here would like to know. It is a shame that you gave yourself and your other identities away on Saturday with your early morning posts using multiple names. You would think however that with so many different names and accounts that you could actually win a debate or argument.

Looks like someone is having another meltdown.

Let's see how this works. Here is a try.

My name is now Lancelot. Keep up the posts Merlin. Take down that irascible character FIFA.

Hey Lancelo, how did you know about that FIFA guy on this thread without being the same person?

King Arthur told me to come on here and post on Patch. We mysteriously share the same viewpoints, and coincidentally post at almost exactly the same time.

My name is the green knight. I am here to post arguments against FIFA. I am not in any way related to Merlin. I just seem to be posting on here following the same thread.

I do not think it is in any way coincidental how all of the various user names and characters created by the same person posted within minutes of each time stamp. I do think however it is a shame that this person cannot make arguments or post using one screen name. Would that be considered a weakness in character, or more of a moral conundrum?

Articulate as he is, Escariot/King Arthur/Merlin just doesn't understand that it is a virtual space and a worldwide web.

That two or three people from all over the world out of a population of 7 billion would read posts on Patch, think he was a tool, and respond in kind is just too coincidental. They must be working for DNC and the Liberal Conspiracy.

The imposter nonsense, is a very easy problem for PATCH to solve. Everyone, should be required to give a credit/debit card number, address and correct name when they sign up. Patch charges that card $1.00. When approved, PATCH will then be able to stop those who have several bogus screen names and who are legitimate posters And for those already members, require them to give this information on the first post after Patch initiates this requirement.

This will eliminate the back and forth by immature posters that detract from this very informative and valuable news service.

The benefit to all is, PATCH will be able to sort out those trying to deceive the legitimate posters and Patch and give credibility to their news organization.

I think is is worth considering Mr. Sears.

ATTENTION :::

We can still stop this tax by calling your Senator and let them know this is not a good deal and you and your family would remember their vote on this matter come election time and so please vote NO on this issue.

http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/05sen/html/senal.html

Here is the easiest solution of all. What if posters simply followed threads and observed grammatical and posting consistencies to make their own conclusion? It seems to me that more than one poster actually did this and it led to the amazing discovery that someone posting as "Jack Hays" on another website had the same behavior patterns as those using multiple screen names on this site. Let's face it Patchers, we have all been the victims of a ruse that involves the Brian Schenck of posting on websites, multiple websites, with multiple names. The easiest thing to do is to take their postings with a grain of salt and recognize that your idea or opinion is not being refuted by multiple people, but one with an agenda. It becomes blatantly obvious when that person loses their temper and time stamps become obvious, and when all characters mysteriously come out of the woodwork before 830 am on a Saturday. To those legitimate posters, take a weekend and see if you can get 5 or more friends to wake up at 8am to post on anywhere on the internet.

Man, you are one strange bird!

I hate everyone in Annapolis and the idiots who continue to vote them in.

I think that this issue has hit an apex as far as humor value. For example, I do not think many posters would have an issue with user names being linked to identification whether it was by credit or drivers license. But not surprising, the individual that has multiple ids can be seen using all of them to protest this issue. Once again, they have tipped their hand to what is going on. It is okay Schenck, the very fact that you have been outed as an operative and not some real citizen destroys your delegated task of posting on here and elsewhere with multiple ids and a deluge of posts to make it seem like it is "grassroots" and indicative of the population as a whole. Now that the gig is up you might want to concentrate on another site, but not the baltimore sun since you have been outed as spouting your drivel there also.

Sure, Escargot, sure. As a frequently banned poster they should charge you $100 for each time you come back.

Here is the deal:

I do not want to do anything to exacerbate your mental illness, these delusions that seem to haunt you, regardless of how ridiculous it sounds. Schenck! Haw haw.

Whenever, I see you on a thread, I will leave. I will give you two weeks to get yourself straightened out.

After two weeks, I will flood any thread you post on with demons who will make you wish you had never touched a keyboard.

Got it?

Here is the proof:

Those of us that do not make a living posting anywhere would not even know how to flood a website with so much spam or postings that it would affect the website. Obviously this a trait that you are quite familiar with, and it is very telling. You leaving for 2 weeks is humorous because the other accounts would still be active. Instead I actually like the idea by Jack Friese about using id to gain access to a username. Not coincidentally, all the other usernames are typing about how they would not want to do that. I am glad however that you were able to inform us of your technology skills in flooding websites or attacking posters. That is the exact behavior being displayed on this website via the use of a technologically savvy poster that does this for a living.

Maybe someone already pointed this out, but the headline would be much better if they just took the word "tax" off it. I imagine they spend much of their time in Annapolis doing that anyway.

A 20 cent tax on every gallon of gasoline, and it evokes this sort of reaction?

Diddums!