{"id":1421,"date":"2004-04-07T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/04\/07\/virginia_news_2-5\/"},"modified":"2004-04-07T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T19:01:08","slug":"virginia_news_2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/04\/07\/virginia_news_2-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine inches of new powder at A-Basin in Colorado on Tuesday and my computer problems are fixed.  A software glitch destroyed the cable modems of me and 11,000 other Cox customers.  And I\u2019m back in the Commonwealth, so life is good again.  <\/p>\n<p>First thing I see is that a compromise tax bill <a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?042+vot+H10V0005+HB5018\">passed<\/a> the House Finance Committee, but some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A57482-2004Apr7.html\">House Republicans aren\u2019t happy<\/a> with the Governor\u2019s statement of support.  I\u2019m not sure what they\u2019re complaining about.  It seems, unfortunately, he\u2019s signed onto it and the Senate has indicated its willingness to drop the higher income taxes.  If this is a compromise, the Senate got the short end of the stick.  HB5018 raises less than $1 billion bi-annually, whereas the Senate\u2019s original proposal raised $4 billion.  So we\u2019re hardly halfway.  Which means we may end up without true tax reform or enough money to solve the long-term problems.<\/p>\n<p>More later\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine inches of new powder at A-Basin in Colorado on Tuesday and my computer problems are fixed. A software glitch destroyed the cable modems of me and 11,000 other Cox customers. And I\u2019m back in the Commonwealth, so life is good again. First thing I see is that a compromise tax bill passed the House&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/04\/07\/virginia_news_2-5\/\">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\/1421"}],"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=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}