Yesterday\u2019s machinations in Richmond highlighted that not only were philosophical differences seemingly insurmountable, lawmakers don\u2019t even count the same way and\/or reporters don\u2019t report the same way.<\/p>\n
Both the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot<\/a> and the Hampton Roads Daily Press<\/a> report the House plan to eliminate sales tax exemptions on businesses would generate $561 million in revenue, but the Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/a> reports the Dept. of Taxation says it will only raise $150 million. <\/p>\n I’m trying to confirm they\u2019re all talking either apples or oranges.<\/p>\n The Governor and delegates are also sparing over how much the budget has gone up<\/a> and how much is in the House plan for schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n But House delegates know the number 115. That\u2019s the dollar amount per day they voted for themselves while they obstruct the budget process. The Pilot story<\/a> tells us how much it cost the state.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the tone is getting nastier and the politics rougher. Del. Brian Moran (D-Alexandria) said<\/a>, “Today was a demonstration of raw arrogance of power. It’s childish and its immature and it’s no way to govern.” <\/p>\n The GOP said it\u2019s partly pay back<\/a>, but some of their own don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n Even the conservative Times-Dispatch editorial page<\/a> is wondering why the House can\u2019t get a budget done, and the Pilot<\/a> takes one of its own delegates to task. <\/p>\n A new study<\/a> suggests a tax hike on tobacco won\u2019t hurt state jobs.<\/p>\n There you go again, Washington Times. This story<\/a> is headlined \u201cVirginia residents fear tax increases.\u201d But is based on interviews with \u201cmore than a dozen Virginians.\u201d <\/p>\n More than a dozen? I\u2019ll bet some statistician would have a field day with that small a sample size. And in the story, the Times only quotes six people. So, OK, they\u2019ve talked to a least 13 people and six of them are against higher taxes (although the quotes suggests some are conflicted). Does that merit the headline? It must be a full moonie over the Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday\u2019s machinations in Richmond highlighted that not only were philosophical differences seemingly insurmountable, lawmakers don\u2019t even count the same way and\/or reporters don\u2019t report the same way. Both the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and the Hampton Roads Daily Press report the House plan to eliminate sales tax exemptions on businesses would generate $561 million in revenue, but… 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\/1467"}],"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=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}