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Democrats now control the legislature and Governor's office in Virginia. Here are just a few of the bills they've introduced
X ^ | 01/19/2026 | Greg Price

Posted on 01/20/2026 3:18:01 AM PST by DFG

- New 4.3% sales tax on Uber Eats, Amazon, etc deliveries. - New sales tax on admissions to a wide variety of businesses. - Create two new higher tax brackets of 8% and 10% on people making over $600K. - A new 10% tax bracket for anyone making over $1M. - 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes. - Raise the hotel tax. - New personal property tax on landscaping equipment. - Ban gas powered leaf blowers. - Guarantee illegal aliens free education. - Make it illegal to approach somebody at an abortion clinic. - Extend the time absentee ballots can be received after election day to three days - Allow people to cast their votes electronically through the internet. - Expand ranked-choice voting. - Extend the deadline for ballot curing to one week after election day. - Redact the addresses of political candidates from FOIAs. - Add Virginia to the National Popular Vote Compact for presidential electors. - Make it illegal to hand count ballots. - $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors . - "Assault weapons" and large capacity magazine ban. - 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition. - Prohibit outdoor shooting of a firearm on land less than 5 acres. - Lower the criminal penalties for robbery. - Ban the arrest of illegal aliens in courthouses. - Remove mandatory minimum sentences. - Allow localities to install speed cameras. - Replace Columbus Day with "Indigenous Peoples Day."


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1 posted on 01/20/2026 3:18:01 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG
Ban gas powered leaf blowers

I'll vote for that!
2 posted on 01/20/2026 3:27:42 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: ComputerGuy

Wow, the master of the democrats has pretty much told them to go all in, no stops on Virginia. Making it illegal to hand count ballots is as in your face as it can get.

Free education for illegals, talk about spitting in the citizen’s eye.


3 posted on 01/20/2026 3:31:06 AM PST by Skwor
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To: DFG

- New 4.3% sales tax on Uber Eats, Amazon, etc deliveries.
- New sales tax on admissions to a wide variety of businesses.
- Create two new higher tax brackets of 8% and 10% on people making over $600K.
- A new 10% tax bracket for anyone making over $1M.
- 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes.
- Raise the hotel tax.
- New personal property tax on landscaping equipment.
- Ban gas powered leaf blowers.
- Guarantee illegal aliens free education.
- Make it illegal to approach somebody at an abortion clinic.
- Extend the time absentee ballots can be received after election day to three days
- Allow people to cast their votes electronically through the internet.
- Expand ranked-choice voting.
- Extend the deadline for ballot curing to one week after election day.
- Redact the addresses of political candidates from FOIAs.
- Add Virginia to the National Popular Vote Compact for presidential electors.
- Make it illegal to hand count ballots.
- $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors .
- “Assault weapons” and large capacity magazine ban.
- 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition.
- Prohibit outdoor shooting of a firearm on land less than 5 acres.
- Lower the criminal penalties for robbery.
- Ban the arrest of illegal aliens in courthouses.
- Remove mandatory minimum sentences.
- Allow localities to install speed cameras.
- Replace Columbus Day with “Indigenous Peoples Day.”


4 posted on 01/20/2026 3:32:35 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: DFG

Ironic. Virginia’s state motto is “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” a Latin phrase meaning “Thus Always to Tyrants,” adopted in 1776 for the state seal to signify victory over oppression, famously depicted on the state flag with the goddess Virtus standing over a defeated Tyranny.

Ironic because all these new measures advance tyranny itself . It is like that dead guy in that state flag has become a vampire just waiting for the chance to suck the blood of everyone in the state.


5 posted on 01/20/2026 3:34:21 AM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Skwor
In your face sums it up perfectly.
6 posted on 01/20/2026 3:34:37 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: DFG

New personal property tax on landscaping equipment.

Taxing illegals and people on The Disability


7 posted on 01/20/2026 3:35:00 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: DFG

This is going to be really disastrous.


8 posted on 01/20/2026 3:36:36 AM PST by OwenKellogg (...if my people, who are called by my name...)
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To: DFG

Well, they wanted communist and this is all part of the package. Don’t cry for Virginia.


9 posted on 01/20/2026 3:38:44 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (FTL)
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The new state motto for Virginia: “Interdum malum vincit” (Literal, simple: Sometimes evil wins/conquers)


10 posted on 01/20/2026 3:39:32 AM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: DFG

Doesn’t sound like Democrats are going to make VA more affordable or free. Unfortunately they Californicated themselves.


11 posted on 01/20/2026 3:39:32 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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Their mask is off.


12 posted on 01/20/2026 3:43:43 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim
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To: DFG

Virginia will never be able to vote their way out of this. They’re stuck unless drastic measures are taken.


13 posted on 01/20/2026 3:44:52 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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Ban gas powered leaf blowers

“I’ll vote for that!”

I use mine year round. Leaves in the summer snow in the winter.

So, I’m going to need to cancel your vote.


14 posted on 01/20/2026 3:47:23 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: DFG
Virginia...

2024 - 42% non-white

2024 - 20% Black

2024 - 58% white (100% employed by a government agency)

15 posted on 01/20/2026 3:52:59 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: DFG

They are trying to make democrats out of us.
The problem is that they won’t like the totally deranged, unimpeded, non law abiding miscreants that we will immulate.


16 posted on 01/20/2026 3:54:23 AM PST by Recompennation ( Deeeeeeeeezout )
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To: AppyPappy

Make it illegal to hand count ballots


17 posted on 01/20/2026 4:10:21 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: DFG

Damn


18 posted on 01/20/2026 4:13:20 AM PST by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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"Extend the deadline for ballot curing creation to one week after election day."

Fixed it for you, comrade.

19 posted on 01/20/2026 4:23:18 AM PST by Fresh Wind (I voted for Trump the Fighter, not a wussified wimp!)
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To: Skwor

Here comes ICE Virginia ,get ready. Wow, are the people of that state stupid, like we didn’t see this coming.


20 posted on 01/20/2026 4:28:28 AM PST by spincaster (en's of thousands )
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