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Allen will not back roads levy
Says he will vote against N.Va. sales-tax increase
RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH ^
| 11-2-02
| PETER HARDIN
Posted on 11/02/2002 4:49:55 AM PST by putupon
Edited on 07/20/2004 11:47:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON - Sen. George Allen has broken his silence on a proposed sales-tax increase for roads in Northern Virginia, saying he will vote against it.
"The proponents simply have not convinced me that raising taxes in the fashion they have proposed is the best way to go," Allen said in a telephone interview yesterday while traveling in Virginia.
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TOPICS: Announcements; Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: referendum; roadtax; tax
NoVA & Hampton Roads-VOTE NO!!!This tax icrease cancer spread statewide if it is not squelced now. Thank you Sen. Allen
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posted on
11/02/2002 4:49:55 AM PST
by
putupon
To: putupon
Everyone supporting that increase in the VA state sales tax is a corporatist conartist.
And they are not going to be any better in the future!
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posted on
11/02/2002 2:20:23 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: putupon
Food for thought....I don't know about hampton roads area but if we got all the illegals off the road in N.Va instead of raising the sales tax the roads would be much less congested.
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posted on
11/04/2002 1:01:46 PM PST
by
CJ Wolf
To: CJ Wolf
I-64 westbound is clogged with them heading inland after jumping ship in Norfolk.
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posted on
11/04/2002 1:10:11 PM PST
by
putupon
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