Well, New Year’s Day passed without any major hiccups.  All the new taxes are now in effect.  For those of you held captive to the new socialist tax regime because you are distant to a border with a friendlier, neighboring state, you have my compassion.

The Republicans are all atwitter because they will be able to finally depose Mary Monahan, the House of Delegate’s Chief Clerk, over discrepancies in the House paperwork on a Senate adjournment that appears to be in violation of the State Constitution.

Over at O'MalleyWatch.com, Mr. Watcher has a great write up on the deft corruption that Martin O'Malley and his Shin Fein Footsoldiers have brought to state government:  holding conferences before they are approved by the Board of Public Works, then billing aftewards.

Why doesn't this constitute mail fraud?

One of the big reasons I have not been posting for a month has been work. But the other has been rage.  Pure, unadulterated, unbridled rage.  The votes by Dels. Page Elmore (R-Wicomico) and A. Wade Kach (R-Baltimore) sent me into an apoplectic rage.  Every time I sat down to write, the vitriol was uncontrollable.  But now, I have calmed down (somewhat) and I can think and write clearly again.

With the dawn of 2008, Marylanders awake to a new state of spending and taxation that will make the big-government Keynesianism of the Great Depression pale in tremendous comparison.  New sales taxes, new gas taxes, new tobacco taxes.  The list goes on and on.  Maryland will now reap the benefits of a Martin O’Malley victory in 2006.  Having squandered a $1.4 billion surplus during 2007, the O’Guvnah created a brand new $1.8 billion crisis deficit through the year for 2008 that resulted in some of the largest tax increases ever to fun an ever-expanding fascist bureaucracy and jobs program we politely call “Maryland State Government”.

In a previous post, I argued that we need to “Starve the Beast”.  That is, we need to deprive State Government of its ability to wage war on the hard-earned income of Marylanders.  In this ongoing series, I will posit ideas and concepts on how we can do this.  This will cause pain, and in some cases, it may seem unfair.  But we must be willing to take the battle directly to the thieves and whores of the General Assembly.  If they thought the Special Session of 2007 was painful, we must make their pain even greater, as they are forced to evaluate every nickel of state spending as revenues fall dramatically.