This afternoon, Governor Bob McDonnell proposed a transportation funding plan highlighted by the elimination of the gasoline tax. Despite that, the plan itself increases taxes overall - and is largely dependent on a federal tax hike bill that died in a House Committee last year.
There is sadly little good to say about the McDonnell proposal, so I'll get that out of the way first: …
Our governor likes to spend our money. He is a professional politician.
If we want roads, let's just finance the roads we use strictly with tolls, and let's not allow professional politicians to spend any of the money we pay in tolls on anything but the roads we paid those tolls to use.
If we want roads, let's just finance the roads we use strictly with tolls, and let's not allow professional politicians to spend any of the money we pay in tolls on anything but the roads we paid those tolls to use.
