Cecil County Spending Project

From the office of Congressman Andy Harris: Today, Rep. Andy Harris continued to voice his opposition to the largest toll hike in the state’s history. “Maryland families and job creators, particularly on the Eastern Shore, cannot afford another tax hike,” said Rep. Andy Harris. “Maryland doesn’t have a revenue problem – they simply want to raise tolls by hundreds of millions of dollars to fund transportation projects for the Washington,…

Recently, Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs, Democrat Delegate Mary Delany-James, and others have been publicly claiming “victory” in the battle over the toll increases.  A new toll increase plan was released by the MDTA that was less than what was initially proposed–but the newly revised plan is still a substantial increase of tolls in the state of Maryland and locally in Cecil and Harford Counties.  The citizens of Maryland and especially…

A newly revised sham toll increase plan was released today by the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) that will STILL increase tolls across our state.  It doesn’t seem like the MDTA heard the thousands of people who came out to the hearings from all over Maryland demanding the MDTA not increase tolls.  Visit the MDTA website to read the specifics of the new proposal: Click Here to See Today’s Notice to…

The Cecil County Commissioners were set to vote tonight on a waste water connection fee proposal that would greatly increase the cost of development in Cecil County.  The proposal would increase connection fees by thousands of dollars per unit charged to developers for linking into the county waste water treatment system.  Cecil County Department of Public Works Director Scott Flanigan says the increases need to be approved to fund necessary…

Roy Whiteley, founder and leader of Marylanders for Fair Property Taxation, encourages you to get involved with changing the way that tax assessments are done in the state of Maryland.  As many of you are aware the state of Maryland does a very poor job of assessing properties in a way that truly reflects real market conditions often resulting in citizens being assessed way too high and being taxed accordingly.