Comments on: Kaine: Raise sales tax, grantor’s tax, car taxes

By: The Write Side of My Brain » The Tax-portation Plan of 2008

The Write Side of My Brain » The Tax-portation Plan of 2008 — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:49:05 +0000

[...] Kaine: Raise sales tax, grantor’s tax, car taxes Brian Kirwin at Bearing Drift [...]

By: Henry Ryto

Henry Ryto — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:27:04 +0000

Brian,

My point was that the money couldn’t be filtered that way under the current formulas.

Attack Kaine if you wish, but at least he’s trying to do something for Transportation. While I wouldn’t have drawn up a plan that looks like his, I’ll concentrate on tweaking it until someone puts a better plan on the table.

By: Reid Greenmun

Reid Greenmun — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:28:20 +0000

Who ever thought transportation could be so much fun?

By: charles flynn

charles flynn — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:40:29 +0000

Kaine is the dog with a bone…can’t let go of the often failed regional tax scam or the sacrosanct 6 projects (now 7 with the HRBT finally included)
Grantor’s tax was universally rejected as unfair, but is back.
The 2006 Referendum has been totally ignored.

By: J’s Notes » Kaine’s Transportation Plan Is Bad

J’s Notes » Kaine’s Transportation Plan Is Bad — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:15:47 +0000

[...] does a good job dissecting the proposal, as does Brian Kirwin, Va Patriot and LG Bill Bolling. May 12th, 2008 at 1:15 pm | Tags: Virginia, bad idea, politics, [...]

By: Someone step in something? Oh… It’s Kaine’s Transportation Proposal | Scott's Morning Brew

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:42:19 +0000

[...] And according to the Virginian-Pilot, the house tax would be used to pay mostly for mass transit, (to quote Bearing Drift’s Brian Kirwin, Buy a house = Pay for buses). [...]

By: Brian Kirwin

Brian Kirwin — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:23:21 +0000

Henry, everything they do is a change in state law. That’s kind of the point of a legislature.

By: Henry Ryto

Henry Ryto — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:37:37 +0000

The story is poorly written, as it would require a change in state law to do what’s proposed as reported.

First of all, mass transit isn’t directly paid for out of the Transportation Trust Fund (TTF), but rather the Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund (CMTF). 14.7% of monies collected for the TTF go to the CMTF.

What Kaine could do is deposit the Grantor’s Tax money directly into the CMTF.