Democrats act like a virus - It is surprising anyone who isn't on the state payroll or on the dole has stayed there.

And Baltimore is just another basket-case, broke, blighted and dangerous, Democrat run, urban center. m/r

Would the last person leaving blue Maryland please turn out the lights? | WashingtonExaminer.com

BY MARK TAPSCOTT | JULY 23, 2014

At least 160 Marylanders are about to lose their jobs because of the constitutional myopia of the state's corrupt liberal Democratic establishment. It's a sad illustration of the dire results of one-party rule.

Maryland is one of the deepest-blue states in the country. Democrats hold every statewide office, control the unbelievably venal state legislature and have a stranglehold on most local governments.

Maryland Democrats love taxes and government spending programs. When a Marylander flushes the toilet, cha-ching. When a Marylander is rained on, cha-ching. And soon, when a Marylander drives, it will be cha-ching for every mile. Taxes keep going up because state spending keeps going up.

Beretta says goodbye

As it happens, the latest Maryland misery is a product of the anti-gun obsession of the state's ruling Democrats. Beretta, which makes handguns used by police departments across the country, is moving its 40-year-old Maryland facility to Tennessee.

The move comes after more than a year of warnings by Beretta execs that Maryland's increasingly stringent gun laws are effectively rendering the firm's products illegal. …

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