State Senator Andy Harris receives MTA Legislator of the Decade award from President Dee Hodges at the January meeting of center-right coalition groups. Dr. Harris has consistently voted against new taxes and the latest two excessive budget increases. This is the first of several similar citations to be awarded to legislators.
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Roll of Honor
~HONOR
ROLL SIGNERS ~
~ SIGNERS' COMMENTS~ |
-DEFENDING
AMERICA-
lgf:
Pentagon Reaching Out to the Wrong People. "Bill
Gertz has an item today on the Pentagon’s
disturbing 'outreach' programs that include 'reaching
out' to Muslim Brotherhood front groups like the Islamic
Society of North America (ISNA). Gertz says that a
Muslim aide to Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England
is pressuring Pentagon advisers to 'take a softer
line.'” READ
MORE.
other recent Defending America posts...
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~The
Culture War~
Mark
Krikorian. "Other disturbing findings: fully
28-percent of Hispanic immigrants never use English
on the job, and only 29-percent report using more
English than Spanish at work. And among naturalized
citizens — people who are supposed to have passed
a language test — 11-percent report that they
speak no English at all, with 35-percent speaking
just a little." READ MORE.
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BE
SURE THAT YOUR DELEGATE AND STATE SENATOR HAVE SIGNED
THE MARYLAND NO-NEW TAXES PLEDGE.
Click here for a copy.
Click here for MTA letter.
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us keep in touch with you!
Send
changes of street and e-mail address to:
Dee
Hodges
President
Diane Mahoney
Secretary
mdtaxes@comcast.net
(410) 665-4769
Maryland Taxpayers Association, Inc.
9613-C
Harford Road, #527
Baltimore, MD 21234
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~SPECIAL
TAXPAYER TOPICS~
- When conservatives Del. Warren Miller and Sen. Alex Mooney team up with liberal Sen. Jamie Raskin to sponsor transparency in government, the bill just might pass. See Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Examiner.
- Immigration, illegal and legal. Leaders of both parties have said "Immigrants do jobs Americans won't do and don't want." According to Herb McMillan, MTA Board member,...'The facts tell a different story."
- Transportation solutions from Peter Samuel: User Financed Roads, Congestion
Pricing, and Privatization. See Samuel on the "'Preposterous' Transportation
Investment Act Just Signed by the Governor."
- Heritage's
Ed Haislmaier on Health
Care Reform in Maryland: Doing It Right.
- American
Thinker: Electric Power Generation vs. Soft America: Four
of Top Ten Heaviest Energy Importing States. "It's
no coincidence that most of the largest energy-importing
states are bastions of soft America." READ
MORE.
- Americans
for Tax Reform Report: State, federal, and local
efforts to increase transparency in government
spending. READ
REPORT
- See MTA testimony for Maryland transparency November 3, 2007.
- Make city contracts available online, advises the Examiner in a July 11, 2007 editorial. "Why not post all contracts immediately,
regardless of size and if companies made contributions?
Doing so would make it easy to see if any companies
are skirting public oversight by winning multiple
bids falling below reporting requirements or are
using their financial clout to win contracts.
It would also be a simple way to see if the city
is complying with minority contracting rules.
Obscuring the bids only makes it harder to find
out who holds city contracts."
- Worried
about Maryland's tax hikes? Here's
what Washington, D.C. has in store for you! See a Heritage Foundation district-by-district
chart of the hit your family's budget will take
should the Rangel tax bill be enacted. READ
MORE
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THE
FINE PRINT OF THE GOVERNOR'S ENACTED SPECIAL-SESSION
PROPOSALS
Click
on bill number to see the FINAL fiscal note.
* HB1 Fiscal and Policy Note on the Budget Reconciliation
Act.
* SB2 Tax Reform Act of 2007.
* SB3 Maryland Education Trust Fund - Video Lottery
Terminals.
* HB4 Video Lottery Terminals - Authorization and Limitations.
* HB5 Transportation Investment Act.
* SB6 Working Families and Small Business Health Coverage.
The
Legislative Wrap-Up - DLS Report on the Special
Session
Also
click here for "Maryland's Fiscal Folly," NTU's 2006 analysis of Maryland spending. |
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