Archive for the ‘Tax debate’ Category
Saturday, August 12th, 2006
The Virginia edition of Americans for Prosperity is hitting the road:
Are you sick and tired of people talking about reining in government spending — but not acting on it?
Are you tired of higher and higher taxes and an ever-growing government bureaucracy here in the Commonwealth and on the federal level?
Well, Americans for Prosperity Foundation is [...]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
If nothing else, Ben has given it a funny label.
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Don’t have time to comment right now, but the WaPo has this article about Kaine’s over-reaching with respect to the budget negotiations. It’s a good read, and I’ll have my thoughts later.
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Outstanding column by Fred Barnes in the Wall Street Journal today:
Tim Kaine, Virginia’s popular new Democratic governor, called for a tax increase. The Republican-controlled state Senate voted in favor of a tax hike and forced a three-month budget impasse in hopes of getting its way. Even much of the business community, especially politically influential developers [...]
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Christina Nuckols has this article in the Virginian-Pilot about Tim Kaine’s first half-year, and it’s worth a read. She says that Kaine’s term thus far has been “peppered with difficulty.” An excerpt:
Kaine’s freshman year has gotten off to a difficult start:
Lawmakers missed their budget deadline by more than three months.
House Republicans refused to [...]
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Christina Nuckols has this article in the Virginian-Pilot about Tim Kaine’s first half-year, and it’s worth a read. She says that Kaine’s term thus far has been “peppered with difficulty.” An excerpt:
Kaine’s freshman year has gotten off to a difficult start:
Lawmakers missed their budget deadline by more than three months.
House Republicans refused to [...]
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Looks like the House is going to win this year's tax battle, as predicted. Stay tuned.
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
It's beginning to look that way.
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Saturday, April 29th, 2006
As the Virginia Senate slowly moves to acknowledge reality, they have the consolation of bouquets still being thrown their way by the Viceroys of Asphalt at the Daily Press editorial board.
Here's how they assess where the three budget players are: With a governor on a steep learning curve, his tactics tattered, his land-use [...]
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Is the state Senate backing down on proposed tax increases? It appears so.
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
The fissures, splits, and peel-offs were all supposed to happen within the House Republican caucus. Yesterday, however, it was Governor Kaine splitting from the Senate on a proposed gas tax hike, according to this account in the Washington Post.
I am beginning to believe that the Senate's best (maybe only) hope is to acquiesce [...]
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Is this the same Russ Potts who called regional transportation authorities a disaster waiting to happen? Inquiring minds want to know:
Potts bill would let regions have say on roads; A1
Kilgore says he's 'flattered' by Senator's proposal
By Garren Shipley
Daily Staff Writer
WINCHESTER — A local legislator wants localities along Interstate 81 to have the same ability to [...]
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Transportation problems = communism.
So says everyone's favorite independent senator, Russ Potts.
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Will mentioned earlier the Tim Kaine plan to "flood the Capitol" with supporters of his tax hike proposal on Wednesday.
Well, things evidently didn't go off as planned. Here's a dispatch from someone who was in attendance at Gov. Kaine's transportation event this morning at the Marriott where his tax-increase supporters gathered, were given their [...]
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
There's a screaming headline in today's Virginian-Pilot: Norfolk Ford plant dragged into state budget fray. Reporters Christina Nukols and Warren Fiske cover the kerfluffle kicked up yesterday when Del. Ben Cline (R-Rockbridge) said in a news conference, "What Ford has decided is that the plant in Virginia is too expensive to operate. [...]
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
I know some folks have scoffed at Speaker Howell's assertion that the House members in his caucus haven't been overwhelmed with constituent pleas for action on transportation.
Today was "Seaker Howell" Day at an online Washington Post transportation chat. Almost two-thirds of the way through the chat, the host had to beg: Steve Ginsberg: I'm [...]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Jim Bacon read Jeff Schapiro's column today and thinks the "Kaine is a Flip-Flopper" meme might start getting some traction.
I'm not so sure.
On the local PBS "Perspectives" show today, host Barbara Berlin asked Mary Washington's pundit-professor Stephen Farnsworth if he thought Kaine's broken promise on taxes would hurt him. Farnsworth said he thought it [...]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
The Roanoke Times editorial page, pom-pom waving cheering squad for tax increases, allowed Del. Lacey Putnam (I, Bedford) a scrap of Saturday morning, nobody's reading anyway so what the heck, op-ed real estate to make the case for the "other side." Del. Putney makes the House of Delegates' case powerfully and succinctly: The governor's [...]
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Jim Bacon has some good news on telephone taxes.
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
From Michael Hardy and Jeff Schapiro on today's front page of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, another story on the budget impasse: "The longer this goes, the more appealing it will be to pass a budget and deal with transportation another time," said Sen. R. Edward Houck, D-Spotsylvania, a budget negotiator.
That could push the transportation debate [...]
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