OPINION:
Vehicle and sales tax increases are just another way for Richmond to feast off the pocketbooks of working Virginians.
This attempt at using the buffet line of honest traffic frustrations among drivers is not only bad fiscal policy, but also misleading.
Building and maintaining road infrastructure is an important function of government, but saddling additional tax burdens onto the backs of the struggling home industry and working families is counterproductive.
If transportation were the real concern for lawmakers, they would have planned to fund needed improvements with the more than $35 billion that taxpayers are projected to give the government next year rather than using such an important issue as a convenient political scapegoat for a lack of fiscal responsibility.
JOHN NOTHDURFT
Heartland Institute
Legislative specialist
Chicago
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