At a regional meeting of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission Delegate Dave LaRock objected to the proposed 1 cent increase in sales tax for the entire metro region. You may remember we had a similar increase in sales tax when the Virginia General Assembly passed the big tax increase ever in 2013. Northern Virginia and Tidewater pay 5.3 cents on every dollar we spend, while the rest of the state pays 4.3%. With the latest proposed tax increase, Northern Virginian’s tax will increase to 6.3 cents.
The plan hopes to bring in $650 million a year to help dig Metro out of the current mess that it’s in.
Delegate LaRock is objecting to the tax increases because Northern Virginia will be paying 51% of the tax, the District will pay 23% while Montgomery and Prince George’s county will pay a combined 26%. The doesn’t seem quite seem quite fair, does it? LaRock agrees, he addressed the District’s chief financial officer, Jeffrey S. DeWitt,
“How is this not Washington, D.C., passing off its financial liabilities to Virginia?”
Dewitt responded say this was just an opening discussion, not the final solution.
Read much more here.
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Dave is exactly right. By creating a sales tax, the tax burden gets a major shift to Northern Virginians and, as this article points out, this is after the transportation tax. Basically, they want us Nova-ites to pay 150% the sales tax of the rest of the state. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Ahhh, regionalism
Metro insures with Prudential. They want a piece of LaRock 🙂
Build the Wall
and while we are at it Build one around Richmond, then flood it.
The GA (of quality character ) should self impose a no tax increase of any kind until the exhibit the ability to produce legislation to prevent payroll fraud and illegal commerce.
If our Government can’t run with foresight and with prophylactic measures they will always come back to the well (our wallets) for more revenue claiming this will resolve everything , reactionary.
Right now the Va. GA can’t do anything , if you can’t protect a job from being taken by payroll fraud and illegal commerce how will you ever create one? Goverment does not create jobs.
Great American Dave LaRock is
Sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner?
Trying to do my best Yoda. Fail I did.
Thanks, that helps