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		<title>Cecil County Del. Mike Smigiel MIA on Key Annapolis Votes on Gas Tax, Licenses for Illegals, Cyberbullying</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you take a paycheck, most employers expect you to show up for the job. But taxpayers didn’t get the job done by one of their employees when Cecil County Del. Michael Smigiel (R-36) was a no-show as the House of Delegates passed one of the most locally reviled bills of this year’s General Assembly session: an increase in the gas tax. And that wasn’t his only voting MIA on important legislation. [In fact, a review of a 70-page database of all his votes during the 2013 session found that Smigiel was marked absent on a total of 194 votes on the House floor.] One of the most controversial issues in the recently concluded General Assembly session was a proposed increase in gasoline taxes, with a new sales tax to be phased in as well as boosts in the existing state gas tax of 23.5 cents a gallon that would for the first time link future increases to inflation. As a result, drivers could expect to pay an additional 4-cents a gallon as of July 1 and the extra costs could jump by as much as 20-cents a gallon by 2016. In the largely rural 36th District, where residents must [&#8230;]]]></description>
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