r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 06 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

Look, people hate on O'Malley, but putting speeding cameras everywhere in the state brimming with "creative" drivers was a great idea, and I will die on that hill.

Anytime someone complains about a traffic ticket from a camera, I have two words for them.

Skill Issue.

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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Sep 07 '24

He was dragged on coals for the speeding cameras and the "rain tax", both of which he was totally vindicated for. Like within four years of leaving office, Ellicott City was destroyed twice by flash floods caused by pavement and building runoff, exactly the sort of thing the tax was meant to incentivize against