Property rights amendment is an attack on Christmas. Plus, Republicans embrace a gas tax increase
By Norman Leahy | Monday, February 20th, 2012 | Podcasts, Politics, VirginiaBearing Drift readers know that the House and Senate have approved, for a second time, a property rights constitutional amendment. The House’s approval was rarely, if ever, in doubt. The Senate, however, was another matter, as several members who supported the issue last year (in advance of the election), flipped this year to oppose it. Sen. Mark Obenshain and I discuss some of the arguments used to try to thwart the measure…including how it might be an attack on Christmas (for real).
Obenshain and I also talk about the Senate’s approval of a tax hike. Specifically, the Senate embraced a bill calling for regular increases in the state’s gas tax, with those increases tied to the rise in inflation. Selling this idea in the face of rising gas prices will be a trick. But it does show that the ghosts of the 2004 tax hike battle are still rattling around in Capitol Square.
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Norm Leahy has written about Virginia and national politics online since 2002, beginning with One Man's Trash (OMT), and continuing through Bacon's Rebellion (both the blog and the e-zine), Sic Semper Tyrannis, NBC12's Decision Virginia, Richmond.com and Tertium Quids. He is the chief blogger at "The Score" and a producer of "The Score" radio show as well as being a Washington Post contributor.
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One Response to "Property rights amendment is an attack on Christmas. Plus, Republicans embrace a gas tax increase"
Sorry Norm, I could not waste any more time listening to republicans talk about eminent domain, nor about transportation.
Right thinking business people of both parties are astounded at the failure of the Governor and the Legislature to stop the decay of our transportation infrastructure. To even pay attention to the effort to index the fuels tax to inflation is like discussing health food at McDonalds; a travesty.
How republicans, a party that was once associated with business, could destroy our economic advantage in transportation, and now ignore the effects, is testimony to the failure of reason to matter any longer to conservatives.
Who knew that a conservative agenda now includes denial of the path of destruction wrougt by republicans on a once proud and functioning transportation system.
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