Tell Your State Legislators Your Opinion about Efforts to Raise Taxes
The National Taxpayers Union’s Taxpayer Action Center recently alerted some of its members that “(t)he Virginia General Assembly is preparing to meet in a special legislative session to discuss transportation funding. Concerned taxpayers will not be surprised to hear that there is a concerted effort in the legislature to raise taxes and fees on Virginia's families and businesses. A proposal by Delegate Thomas Davis Rust (R-Fairfax) and Delegate David B. Albo (R-Fairfax) would swipe an additional $417 million from your wallets by raising vehicle registration fees - as well as hotel and rental car taxes - in Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties.”
The alert also said “(p)roponents of such a plan claim that a tax increase is necessary to fund Virginia's burgeoning transportation needs. This argument is not only disingenuous, it's simply untrue. Virginia's current budget is 19 percent larger than the last biennium, far outpacing increases in population and inflation. In fact, the state's budget has more than doubled in the last decade. Surely the state could have diverted more of their new revenue to transportation improvements.”
The Washington Post has been banging the drums this week for higher taxes with articles not only today, but also on September 13 and September 15. There’s no doubt we need better roads, but that doesn’t necessarily mean higher taxes. Tell Arlington’s Senator Mary Margaret Whipple your opinion, and Delegates Robert Brink, Al Eisenberg, Adam Ebbin, and David Englin, too.