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Brian Kirwin’s column from last week was just published in the online version of the Daily Press. In it, he takes on Senator Mark Warner’s calls for “tax reform”.
Back when he was Gov. Warner, he proposed what he called tax reform to correct structural imbalances in the state budget. The major imbalance was that taxpayers had too much money when government wanted it.
“Structural imbalance” was not exactly “Give me liberty or give me death,” but it was enough to put the sheep’s clothing of reform over the tax increase wolf, and pull the wool over everyone’s eyes.
I didn’t see much reform then.
I did see the state budget leap by billions with major tax increases.
