Entries for the 'Starve the Beast' Category

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.

Since O'Guvnah has decided to make the consumers of legal tobacco products his bitches through higher taxes and smoking bans, one wonders if O'Guvnah is deliberately overlooking the consumers of legal adult beverages on purpose or because of his heritage.

I don't want to direct all my fire at O'Guvnah.  You see, like Sauron, he has his own dark servants.  In this case, I am talking about the county executives and municipal leaders and mayors who cozied up to O'Guvnah at the expense of their own constituents.

In particular, I have two in my sights:  Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman of Salisbury and County Executive Ricky Pollitt of Wicomico County, Maryland.

Well, it's day 5 of O'Misery in O'Maryland, and already, business groups are pushing back on including computer services -- anything from web design to technical consulting to wiring cable -- in the new 6% sales tax.

All fine and good, but where in the hell were these supposed "business groups" during the Special Session?

I am going to hold my breath while I wait for an answer...

Today, word came from the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter that the state GOP has asked the Attorney General of Maryland to investigate the fact that the House of Delegate's Chief Clerk, Mary Monahan, admitted that documentation was forged in order to support the contention that permission was granted for the State Senate to adjourn for more than three days.

Gansler's response, in the vernacular of Annapolis politics:  Go Fuck Yourself.

Austin Shlick, head of the Attorney General's Office on Civil Litigation, was caught in court yesterday with his pants on fire, according to the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter.

It's Day 6 of O'Misery in O'Maryland, and O'Guvnah does not disappoint.  The Baltimore Examiner is reporting that O'Guvnah is proposing tough new standards for poultry farms to help cure the ills of the Bay.

I wonder what Rick Pollitt and Barrie Tilghman think of this one?

Taxes, that is. Compulsory contributions to the state revenue pool.  Based upon what?  A moral judgement.

My uncle is fond of telling me that you "can't legislate morality".  He is, of course, wrong.  Our entire tax code is replete with legislated morality.

That is all sin taxes are.

In Part II of Starve The Beast, I want to focus on "interacting with government".  But not in a normal take.

The biggest news to come out of the deposition of House of Delegates Chief Clerk Mary Monahan was that the she did in fact fabricate the documentation to falsely prove the validity of the laws passed during the Special Session.

More here from the Baltimore Examiner.

Marvin Mandell and Spiro Agnew could not be reached for comment.

So, it is okay for the government of the State of Maryland to lie, cheat, and steal at whim to achieve a political end?

Why should we respect these ratfuckers?  Tell me again why they shouldn't all be locked in the State House, and have it set fire?  Tell me again why the Governor and Attorney General shouldn't be guillotined on State Circle?

How can we be a free people if our Government so willingly and blatantly disregards its own laws?

Thy despot's heel is on thy shore is an understatement.

What are you going to do now, Wade Kach and Page Elmore?  The body of government which you so readily defend and hold up is CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT, and TYRANNICAL.  It's time you step up to the line and show you have a set.

The Maryland General Assembly and its members have NO HONOR, NO CHARACTER, and NO INTEGRITY.