For Tim Kaine, it’s Budget Déjà vu all over again
By Ward Smythe | Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 | Politics
The National Republican Senatorial Committee notes:
Even Fellow Democrats Reject Kaine & Obama’s Reckless Spending Agenda
In a strong 97-0 rebuke of liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine’s agenda of reckless spending and tax hikes, every single voting Democrat U.S. Senator joined Republicans in refusing to even consider President Barack Obama’s irresponsible budget proposal, which includes billions of dollars in wasteful deficit spending and job-killing tax hikes.
97-0
Where have I read this story before?
Ah…yes…right here at Bearing Drift: It’s unanimous: Kaine can keep his tax hikes
See also:
Unanimous vote kills Kaine’s proposed tax increase
PilotOnline, January 22, 2010
No member of the House of Delegates voted Thursday to support former Gov. Timothy M. Kaine’s proposal to increase the state income tax and effectively eliminate the personal property tax on vehicles.
The vote?
97-0
Don’t you just love bipartisanship?
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Ward Smythe is a pseudonymous aspiring freelance writer from Central Virginia. Until late 2007 Ward blogged at the now defunct "Ward View" and was active in Virginia and national politics. Ward's signature style of snarkery gained him a unique following that he hopes to regain here at Bearing Drift. Ward uses humor, satire and sometimes photoshop to make his point. Ward is proud to be an equal opportunity offender.
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7 Responses to "For Tim Kaine, it’s Budget Déjà vu all over again"
Of course, the more interesting question is how did Gilmore promise “No Car Tax” but of course, we still have one? Point is, almost no politician can resist a promise to cut taxes, yet frequently, that is absolutely the most irresponsible thing to do. It certainly was in Gilmore’s case as he just about caused the Commonwealth to lose its triple A credit rating. Warner bailed him out, just as the Pressident has had to bail out the country after Bush cut taxes.
Yeah, that’s exactly what the President needs to do is run on the unprecedented success of his bailouts.
No Tim, he will run on the success he has had with the economy, reversing the effects of the great recession caused by the sins of the past.
MB,
Now that’s funny. Are you referring to how he halted unemployment growth at 8% with a “stimulus” package that added almost a trillion dollars to the debt? Maybe you are referring to his plan to reduce the deficit by raising taxes on the working middle class instead of curtailing entitlement spending? Or perhaps you haven’t read the business section today? It has been 31 months since Obama was elected and it is only 17 months until he faces reelection. The economic numbers are not moving in his favor and time is running out.
MB, I’ve said elsewhere that I thought Gilmore’s car tax plan was flawed. But the fact that it wasn’t eliminated completely wasn’t for his not trying. The General Assembly stopped him. But that didn’t cause problems with the budget and the economy. Gilmore had to deal with the bursting of the dot com bubble as well a little thing called 9/11.
Warner didn’t “bail him” out. Warner tried unsuccessfully for three years to raise taxes (with transportation taxes being voted down in NOVA and Hampton Roads). When he finally whined enough along with the tax and spend RINOs in the Senate and got the largest tax increase in the history of the Commonwealth passed, he signed the bill into law about a week and a half before the numbers were released showing the Commonwealth had a surplus of roughly the same amount of money.
That Tim Kaine’s budget didn’t pass, and didn’t even get the support of his own party is consistent with fact that he had no signature accomplishments.
Well Michael, the General Assembly stopped him because it cost about double what Gilmore said it would cost, and it was bankrupting the Commonwealth. The pattern of low balling to get it passed was a Gilmore trademark, and since he left his own party in the lurch, there is not much love for him left. Fact is, taking credit for cutting taxes while ignoring the long term effects of that action is a republican trademark, one that is now becoming obvious. Does the number $9,000,000,000 in deferred maintenance of transportation infrastructure mean anything to Speaker Howell or to you?
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