Christopher Summers: We need to put the brakes on the O’Malley gas tax 

Posted: 5:23 pm Thu, February 2, 2012
By Christopher Summers

There’s a coordinated push by Gov. Martin O’Malley to raise Maryland’s gasoline tax by applying the state’s sales tax of 6 percent to fuel purchases. That means that, at current gas prices, the state tax would rise from 23.5 cents per gallon to 44.5 cents — an increase of 89 percent. This would make Maryland’s gas ...