Gas Tax? Ulman Says He's Still Upset About Pensions

Despite the chatter surrounding Gov. Martin O’Malley’s request that legislators add to the gas tax, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman is still steaming over something else, according to the Washington Post.

During his Wednesday afternoon, O'Malley asked legislators to make "tough choices," including applying the state's 6 percent sales tax to gasoline.

After O'Malley's speech, Ulman reportedly said that he couldn’t even take a position on the gas tax proposal because he still had pensions on the brain. 

Earlier this month, O'Malley  moving half of the burden of teacher pension payouts to the counties in order to help close the state’s deficit; Ulman is not in favor of the proposal.

“Frankly,” he told the Post, “it’s such a devastating proposal for local governments that it’s hard to get past it and focus on anything else that is in the governor’s agenda.” 

Ulman is scheduled to deliver his State of the County address Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at  in Ellicott City.

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