Last year, reports said Del. Ben Cline (R-Amherst) was chastened by an outpouring of support at public hearings for tax increases. Still, this year, he\u2019s pandering to the anti-tax crowd.<\/p>\n
“Last year, we passed a record tax increase in order to fund an increase in government spending by 15 percent in a single year. A lot of folks, me included, are concerned to see that level of government expansion,” Cline said.<\/p>\n
“We also recognize that the surplus that this has helped create, and we’re talking about a surplus that is in the area of $1 billion and counting, doesn’t need to go back into increasing spending even further,” Cline said.<\/p>\n
“We need to recognize those individuals and businesses who have created the surplus that we’re now seeing in the first place. The taxpayers of Virginia, the hard-working men and women of Virginia, are the reason that this surplus even exists,” Cline said.<\/p>\n
“They’re the ones who should be enjoying it. Not the government bureaucracy,” Cline said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He must be spending a lot of time at the gas pumps or pumping Slurpees, given what he said about the public meetings last year: “I have to balance what I hear tonight with what I hear every day at the gas station, the convenience store and on Main Street.” <\/p>\n
Cline is a freshman, I believe, obviously planning to run on the platform that the tax hikes were a bad idea. Let’s hope the folks back in his district point out what those tax hikes paid for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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