Posts tagged Taxes
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Breakfast links: Test the status quo
More school, more tests; Ban the bike ban?; Cap on money orders moves; Parking and bus get more expensive; Reporter finds money for DC; Earthquake damaged buildings reopen; And…. Keep reading…
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Maryland Senate raises taxes in a more progressive way
The Maryland Senate voted today to increase income taxes to prevent large-scale cuts to schools, higher education, low-income health care and public safety. Last night, the full Senate made changes to the plan to make the tax increase more progressive. The revenue package is one part of an effort to close a $1.1 billion budget shortfall. Other pieces of the budget plan involve… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s in your wallet?
More on money orders; Senate passes transportation bill; Want to buy a paper?; How should Arlington expand CaBi?; Liquor licenses need reform; Don’t get squashed by a truck; The Disneyfied monument; More forum wrap-ups; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Unfortunately expected
Hurt cyclist ticketed for nonexistent violation; Costco “beautiful,” says Kwame; Let’s loosen the numbers; Evans has Logan Circle parking plan; Want a grocery? Add housing; Hidden urbanism; Sprawl is really quite big; Promise and peril in public housing; Elect the regionals?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taxes break
Taxes for truck tacos; Give me a break; Are mobile cameras about revenue?; Alerts for buses; Good plan sails through; More roads still needed?; DC cleaner than burbs; Photography still legal; And… Keep reading…
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Raise Maryland’s gas tax? Only if it’ll be spent wisely
Would you give away your money if you had little idea where it was going? Probably not. But that is what could happen to Maryland residents if the General Assembly passes a gas tax bill that doesn’t give us a better plan for how our transportation dollars are spent. Right now, Governor O’Malley is working on a bill to levy a 6% sales tax on gasoline, adding about 18¢… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Timeliness
Silver Line back on schedule; Red Line will be bad for 3 years; Metrobus driver mitigated crash; Revise, resubmit, repeat; Catching school bus violators; Cash cows get a lean diet; Prince George’s considers bag fee; And…. Keep reading…
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O’Malley’s sales tax on gas is the right way to fund transport
In his Wednesday state-of-the-state speech, Governor Martin O’Malley proposed ending the exemption of gasoline from Maryland’s 6% sales tax. This is the best way for the state to get more money for transportation. Ending the sales tax exemption, rather than increasing the gas tax beyond the current 23½¢ per gallon, accomplishes two things. First,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bring in the dough
Brown puts tax cuts first; A stop sign for a suburban Walmart; PG’s sprawling problem; Will Metro get fixed?; Restoration used to be racist; No need to watch for bikes, peds in Virginia; VA House may cut unions from Silver Line; Transportation bill a speeding SUV; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: No funding
Trail defunded; No bill this year; Less of a deduction; Smart growth advocate to HPRB; Transit tweets are negative; New MD website lacks open data; Frederick fights sprawl; And…. Keep reading…