Why did Abbitt, Hogan, Landes and Saxman vote No on the tax hike but Yes on the car tax cap?<\/p>\n
Why did Petersen, Rust, Jim Scott and Shannon vote Yes on the tax bill but No on the car tax cap?<\/p>\n
Why did Hamilton not vote on the tax bill and vote against the car tax cap?<\/p>\n
Why did Orrock vote for the tax hike but didn\u2019t vote on the car tax cap? <\/p>\n
Why did Frederick vote against the tax hike but didn\u2019t vote on the car tax cap?<\/p>\n
Why did Reese and Callahan desert the \u201cmaverick\u201d GOP group on both votes?<\/p>\n
Why did May and Orrock join them?<\/p>\n
Why didn\u2019t Shuler and Weatherholtz vote on either measure?<\/p>\n
Votes by Petersen, Rust, Jim Scott and Shannon can be explained by geography. They represent Fairfax where the car tax cap hurts. Guess is that, since the vote wasn\u2019t needed to put the cap on the car tax, the Governor and Democratic leaders gave them a pass on the car tax vote. I don\u2019t think anyone of them would have scuttled the deal by casting a deciding vote against the cap. (Sen. Jeannemarie Devolites voted for the Senate\u2019s compromise tax bill that included the car tax cap but voted against the cap when the Senate voted on the stand-alone measure. For voters, I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll highlight the former vote.)<\/p>\n
Reese and Callahan may have had similar reasons, knowing their votes weren\u2019t needed. But to voters they\u2019ll argue they were against the tax hike because it went so far beyond what they voted for in the original HB 5008. They\u2019ll also say they protested the continuation of the estate tax. Both represent high net worth constituencies. <\/p>\n
Hamilton argued<\/a> that the \u00bc-cent sent directly to localities wouldn\u2019t be used for property tax relief. I think Hamilton is also mad that his ideas (local option sales tax) weren\u2019t considered.<\/p>\n Orrock, who voted against the less costly earlier version of HB 5018, heard an earful<\/a> at a rescue squad event last weekend and he decided that a compromise was better than a shutdown. But then maybe he was just in a hurry<\/a>. “Del. Robert D. “Bobby” Orrock Sr. (R-Spotsylvania) said he’d vote for the tax bill, but only if the vote took place by 5:30 p.m., when he had to leave to deejay a radio show.”<\/p>\n May was also worried<\/a> about a shutdown. “I voted for it because while I was really opposed to any tax increase, I’m even more opposed to not having a budget,” May said. “It was my belief that we were down to that point. <\/p>\n Frederick? Any speculation as to his reasoning would suggest he could.<\/p>\n Abbitt, Hogan, Landes and Saxman? I haven\u2019t a clue.<\/p>\n Shuler and Weatherholtz, please phone home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why did Abbitt, Hogan, Landes and Saxman vote No on the tax hike but Yes on the car tax cap? Why did Petersen, Rust, Jim Scott and Shannon vote Yes on the tax bill but No on the car tax cap? Why did Hamilton not vote on the tax bill and vote against the car… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“That’s a sham,” Hamilton said. “There’s nothing that does local tax relief in here, that’s kind of disingenuous as far as I’m concerned.”<\/p>\n