Haddaway-Riccio Meets with Motor Truck Association

This week Delegate Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio met with representatives of the Maryland Motor Truck Association (MMTA).  She toured a motor truck and talked with professional truck drivers about the impact that a proposed sales tax on gasoline would have on their industry and about their focus on safety. 

Delegate Haddaway-Riccio opposes an increase in the gas tax and also opposes a sales tax on gas, which she believes would be even more expensive and detrimental to Marylanders. 

The Maryland Motor Truck Association is a non-profit trade organization of Maryland's commercial trucking industry that has been in existence since 1935.  It is one of the largest trucking associations in the country, representing 1,000 member companies.

Response to the State of the State

Statement from Delegate Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio
on the Governor's State of the State Address

I am shocked and dismayed that the Governor would ask the citizens to do more and to make tougher choices. The citizens I talk to everyday have already done their part.  They have made tough choices and they are living within their means.  They have a reasonable expectation that their State government do the same.

We work for the citizens - not the other way around.

The Administration’s continual overspending and inability to manage their own budgets is hardly an adequate excuse to increase taxes, take away tax exemptions and burden the taxpayers even more. His budget proposal and his tax proposals go way too far and again demonstrate how out of touch he is with the citizens of our State.