Waste of the Week: Two from Miller for Tuesday

31Jan/12Off

Waste of the Week: Two from Miller for Tuesday

State Senator Mike Miller (D) is the President of the Maryland State Senate. He's also a porker. This week, as I missed this last week, I decided to pull two new pieces of debt both proposed by Mike Miller both for the Town of North Beach - SB225 and SB171. Let's discuss Miller's attempts to pull in votes in North Beach.

First, SB171 is $100k for a waterfront pavilion to be built in North Beach. Really? We're over $1 billion in debt as a state and the Senate President wants to put the state further in debt to build a waterfront pavilion? Really? Come on now. I disagreed with, but I understood those legislators that proposed bills to help hospitals or rehab centers, but a waterfront pavilion. It doesn't seem like Miller can get more wasteful than that. Oh, but he does.

SB225 is for...a skate park. That's right. It's proposing to incur $150k more state debt for Maryland to build a skate park. Seriously. Now, again - the pavilion seems like a nice beautification project for a community - a waste of money when we don't have it, but still. A skate park? Is Miller planning to head out there and thrash with his skater friends? Is Miller a skater boi at heart and that's why he wants to take these funds and create new debt? I'm not sure, but what I do know is that this is irresponsible at a time like now.

We are too far in debt to be adding further debt for silliness such as this. Senator Miller should know better. He's been in office long enough to know better. Well, you would think so, but there I go assuming that our legislators will do the right thing again. Will not make that mistake again.

For that set of reasons Miller's two bills (SB171 and SB225) are Old Line Elephant's "Waste of the Week."

Congratulations to Senator Miller for wanting to put the state $250,000 in further debt to gain votes in North Beach!

Feel free to submit your suggestions in the comments section of wasteful spending in Maryland.

Tagged as: 2012, Mike Miller, North Beach, Opinion, taxes, Waste Comments Off

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