No...honestly...THIS time, money designated for transportation will be spent on transportation...honest.

People of Maryland, remember Owe'Malley told us that fees are taxes. Why doesn't the great and powerful Sun paper just call them taxes?

Wonder why our elected officials always need to raise taxes instead of cutting spending.

Many among us have been laid off, furloughed, issued pay-cuts, etc. over the past few years. Many people and their families have basically had to adjust to less income and spend less to make our family budgets fit.

Why do our elected officials feel that they can't adjust to less income (revenue), too?

Annie, have you considered writing a story asking Maryland's elected government officials why they feel that they can't adapt to working with a lower budget when their constituents have adjusted to having fewer dollars in our personal budgets?

How about a thorough examination of ALL social service programs to weed out cheaters, abusers and outright thieves who are exploiting the system?

After all, someone living in public housing and using various other open-ended welfare programs their entire lifetime while never working yet raising a "family" surely deserves to be cut free to make it on their own at some point.

How long ago was it that these same property thieves increased taxes with the largest tax increase in Maryland history?

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!! We cannot pay any more!!!

Tax time is the only way to get back all the property these disgraceful idiots have stolen from the people.

They are assuming - as usual - that peoples' behavior won't change.

I would imagine that the idea of paying twice as much for a vanity plate will cause some people to simply get regular tags.

So, revenues aren't quite what they projected. And round and round we go.

This state is a horror show.

And our leaders - gutless.

I'll be turning in my Vanity Plates and I would imagine alot of other people will to. It's not a Tax it's a Fee yea right. These Polithieves are a bunch or MORONS that need to be Recalled.

ANYBODY heard of the TEA PARTY. The give-a-ways have to stop. WE NEED TO STOP SUPPORTING THOSE WHO WILL NOT SUPPORT THEMSELVES. HOW ABOUT PUTTING THESE PEOPLE TO WORK !!! SO THEY CAN PAY TAXES!!!

Why is the Motor Vehicle Administration always the scapegoat of raising fees. No wonder it has a bad reputation. $100 or more for tag registration and now $100 for titles. When will it stop, when it reaches $1,000 for titles? The MVA should have a banner when you enter it that says "Don't blame me" blame the idiots in Annapolis."

The fee for filing land records is already $40, they just call it $20 + a $20 surcharge, so now it'll be $40 + $20 surcharge. That's just the filing fee.

Our transfer and recordation taxes are 2nd highest in the country behind only Hawaii. It literally costs 5-8 times more to transfer property in MD than most states.

So I guess they figure what's another $20? Enough is enough!

I don't recognize this state anymore. I now pronounce we are officially renamed East California.

-Grocery bag tax
-Alcohol sales tax
-Speed cameras
-Red light cameras

What's next?

REMEMBER THIS AT ELECTION TIME!!!

The Moron Majority House Members will once again raise taxes & see taxpayers & businesses flee the state in record numbers! They're so stupid that they forget this didn't work 4 years ago. Revenues actually decreased then & they will decrease again. Education will now get less money because of the greedy tax & spenders in Annapolis

Wake up Maryland!

A tax is a tax, regardless of whether they spell it T-A-X or F-E-E

I like how are elected idiots never bring up the fact that they make a ridiculous amount of money for what they actually do. They never seem to think they should take a pay cut just everybody else.

Martyland, the TaxFee State

Title fee is BS! You already pay 6 percent on each car 25K car= $1500. So then the state adds a "Title" fee. Why not add a fee to park on the freakin street?

To Johnny Thrift - the legislators can't have their pay cut, it's in the constitution. So while state employees are looking at reductions in their pension benefits (don't go there please, just flow the lack of logic here), the general assembly cannot BY LAW have their pension benefits adjusted until the next governor's election. Legislators (and judges) also cannot be furloughed BY LAW. Remember, if they are paid by the state, they are state employees. Like Orwell said -- all animals (state employees) are equal, but some more than others.

Anyone remember this:

If it comes out of my pocket, it's a TAX!

FEE THIS!

"We are giving them a little survival money," said Del. Tawanna Gaines, a Prince George's County democrat.
THEY are giving?Where does this money come from when THEY give it to us?THEY are giving us OUR money and acting like it's so good of them to do it.This is what Marylanders just don't understand.The sad thing is,they keep putting THEM back in office.

Wow, the hypocrisy! Remember those commercials O'mally was running during the election? "Come on Bob, a fee is so a tax!", "A tax is a tax is a tax!" I guess the gov., or should I say the septic tank expert, would say that this is all the work of the legislature. That evil democrat controlled legislature. Is the majority in Maryland really this stupid? Sadly, I think the answer is yes.

I don't know why people are so outraged. If you voted for the folks currently legislating in Annapolis you're getting exactly what you voted for. If you didn't vote for the folks currently legislating in Annapolis you knew stuff like this was coming. Moan and groan all you'd like but none of this should be a shock to anyone.

We need to place term limits on elected officals. why should they stay and collect a pay check for the rest of there life after 8 yrs of service. Maryland politics are So crooked and in bed with the local print media.

Omalley and the dems, and the repubs for that matter, will keep raising fees and taxes until we vote them out. The problem is that the we that pays the taxes is now a minority compared to the we that is living off the government in various forms including the unions, welfare, .....

Maryland Voters are getting what they ELECT......DEMOCRAPS......And dems can spend money faster than people can work for it. You are seing the results of ONE PARTY RULE in MARYLAND. Their tax and spend more than we taxed has cleared out Baltimore City and now they are working on Cleaning out the state. Will the LAST MD resident leaving leave the lights on.

Let me see if I have this straight: The budget is $33 billion and they can't find $67 million (2/10 of 1 percent of the budget) that they could cut?

Maryland - the product of generations of political inbreeding.

Such hypocrisy coming from Annapolis. I thought from the campaign commercials that fees are taxes. Call it like it is and say our taxes are going up. If the Sun denounced Ehrlich's raising of fees, I better see an editorial denouncing this newest move.

super original

Remember this gem from 2006
vote yes for slots no new taxes.
Annapolis sure screwed up slots royally.
Nice job Progressives!