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Posted on 02/12/2013 8:01:01 AM PST by Gopher Broke
By Tom Jackman
Hey Northern Virginians! How would you like to pay another one percent of your income directly to your county or city, in addition to the federal and state income tax you already pay? This new income tax would be used strictly to remedy our wide and varied transportation problems. Sound good?
Virginia state Sen. Walter A. Stosch (R-Henrico) wants to give Northern Va. counties and cities the ability to impose a one percent income tax to fund transportation. The counties say they don’t want it. (Robert A. Reeder - For The Washington Post) Before you answer, know that our friends in the Virginia state Senate have already passed this idea, and it’s now being pondered by the House. It happened late at night last week, on the last day such bills could emerge from one house or the other, and was misleadingly titled, “City of Portsmouth authorized to levy to generate revenue for transporation.” The title didn’t mention that it would also authorize the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William, and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas and Manassas Park to do the same — the entire State of NoVa, plus Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
This income taxing authority actually already exists in Virginia law, with one important condition: It must be approved by a public referendum. The new law would eliminate that referendum, allowing a new income tax to be imposed simply by the local city council or board of supervisors passing a new ordinance.
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Time to kill at tax.
This transportation tax is important, Citizen. How else will the urban ferals get to your property to complete redistribution? It is only fair. Are you selfish and mean-spirited?
SB 1313 Income tax, local; City of Portsmouth authorized to levy to generate revenue for transportation.
Walter A. Stosch
Summary as introduced:
Local income tax. Adds the City of Portsmouth to the list of localities authorized to impose a local income tax to generate revenue to be used for transportation purposes. The bill also removes the requirement that the local income tax be approved by a referendum and repeals the five-year sunset on the local income tax.
Yes, Mr. Stosch, it is a LOT easier to pass a local income tax when the taxpayers don’t get a referendum to vote on it...but it’s DEAD WRONG!!
slowly becoming Maryland... Why should the people be able to vote on their own taxes, the politicians know better..
This is comeing from an R?
All the while gun confiscation is on the agenda.
Remember, though, some of those guys are Mittbots and they are POd at folks in NOVA rebelling at their attempt to stuff that loser down our throats.
Remember, though, some of those guys are Mittbots and they are POd at folks in NOVA rebelling at their attempt to stuff that loser down our throats.
With Republicans like that, who needs Democrats?
I love it. NoVA wants taxes raised on the whole state so it can suck more money from everyone. It’s easier to hide that way. This guy wants to give NoVA DEMOCRATS the ability to raise tax rates on their own and directly tax the people in NoVA for additional transportation funds.
Funny that the Democrats don’t want to touch that one with a 10ft pole. They don’t want to be associated with raising taxes even more by their own hand.
Transportation tax=union pay & benefits.
This type of legislation is everywhere. It exists here in Minnesota.
On at least two occasions in the last ten years, a GOP legislature has stripped the referendum requirement from bills allowing taxpayer financing of a new pro baseball and pro football stadium. The groups pushing for taxpayer funding of a new stadium knew that voters would never approve such a referendum and GOP legislators went along with it.
Since then, we have defeated (in the GOP primary) at least three legislators who voted for these travesties - and several others retired rather than face the voters.
If this bill passes the Legislature in Virginia, GOP activists ought to declare political war on these members who voted for it.
Another example of an old man (Stosch) being in office too long and feeling emboldened to do as he pleases. A poster child for the necessity of term limits.
Portsmouth? What are tehy going to do, tax welfare checks?
Guess the question for the public servants to answer is: What’s the plan when y’all run out of other people’s money?
Think we would be better off as a Nation if we would start regularly associating taxation with slavery.
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Why just 1%? NoVa residents should be paying the same taxes they had before they left Maryland.
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