Posted on 12/18/2009 11:13:15 AM PST by freespirited
Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine (D) proposed Friday replacing the local car tax by increasing income tax $1.9 billion a year.
But Republicans in the General Assembly and Gov.-elect Robert F. McDonnell (R) have said they are opposed to any tax hikes.
The outgoing governor also proposed about $2.3 billion in budget cuts to help make up for a nearly $4.2 billion shortfall by 2012. ...
Kaine recommended eliminating 1,879 jobs as well as 664 layoffs, many of them in the departments of transportation, corrections, juvenile justice and at the University of Virginia.
In public education, he would cap the number of support staff members and aides that schools can hire and reduce health insurance funding for faculty and staff. ...
Legislators and McDonnell will use Kaine's plan as a blueprint but will make changes based on their priorities and the changing economic forecast.
Republican legislators and McDonnell had urged Kaine not to propose a tax increase. But Kaine had made clear in recent days that he thought the shortfall had become so severe that he would have to make proposals to raise revenue to forestall some cuts to core government services. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
How’s about just eliminating the car tax and that’s that?
That sounds even better!
TAX HIKE PING
So why replace the car tax then?
Idiot.
How about doing what your predecessors promised, Mr. Hinky Eyebrow, and propose a complete removal of the automobile personal property tax, NO other tax hikes, and cutting spending from the budget to balance things? That’s how WE have to do it when our income goes down, you should too!
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You had the chance to change it to a sales tax back when Gilmore was in office and make it go completely away. Except your statehouse didn’t see it that way. Since then we moved to North Carolina where the Car tax is alive and well.
Tim Kaine is the worst Governor I can remember. It goes right along with the worst President I can remember as well.
Okay peoples, calm down.
As the outgoing Governor Kaine has to propose a budget. BUT there is NOTHING in his budget that is guaranteed. McDonnell and Bolling have both said they will not raise taxes. And there are already Democrat legislators responding on their blogs that they don’t like this idea.
Good point. Thanks.
This is from an AP story:
Besides a budget bill that deeply cuts funding for state-supported colleges, mental health services and public safety, Kaine is preparing a separate bill that would phase in a 1 percent income tax increase over two years.
The massive income tax increase generates about $400 million a year more than the $1.6 billion the car tax now raises for localities. Local governments would also receive additional revenue from the income tax.
Since the increase is described as massive, I assume this is another arithmetically challenged scribe who means a 1 percentage point increase, not a 1 percent increase.
From 5.75% to 6.75% is a 17% increase!!
Democrat and Republican Virginia governors are to blame for the state’s deficit.
They both ran up state spending and hiring state workers at an exponential rate when the housing market was going well.
In 2000, Virginia’s budget was $23,322,749,017 in 2010 it ballooned to $37,329,237,761.
Guess Travelin' Tim wants to be remembered as 100% RAT.
Why not cut $1.9 billion in spending and then get rid of the car tax?
As Corin S. rightly points out Kaine is a lame duck who has to write a basically pointless budget that will be entirely ignored.
There better not be talks of tax increases by the new administration in this economy or someone aint’ a conservative after all...
Gov. Gilmore (R) promised back in 2000 that by 2002 the car tax would be ‘history’.
What happened is that our state representatives went on a drunken spending spree where the budget is almost doubled in 10 years.
Has your salary doubled in the past 10 years?
First they’ll raise the income tax. Then they’ll abolish the car tax...
Then they’ll institute a vehicle tax.
I wish that was truly only sarcasm.
Two wrongs, do make you lean to the right. Don’t they! When does Bob McDonnell start leading you’ll to the land of milk and honey?
January 16th! Only a month left of this RAT administration.
I hope McDonnell does well. He hasn’t been very accessable to our “tea party” reps. I HOPE and PRAY for our beautiful state and country to survive and pull ourselves out of this swamp with some REAL conservative leadership. No more RINOs!
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