Basically Fairfax County as the largest jurisdiction will control where the spending goes and that concerns me as a Manassas resident. I also don’t like that much of the tax increases proposed that each jurisdiction must approve will come from those who sell residential and commercial real estate. This will NOT be on NEW homes and properties, but ALL. So if you plan to sell your home to move to another one in the area, be prepared to pay that tax. The problem: this would penalize the wrong people. It’s just another tax. We should all be prepared to speak to this issue when the Manassas City Council and PW Board of Supervisors ddress it in the future.

Yet, while I believe the Speaker and others in the House should have fought for more general fund revenue to pay for transportation, allow for highway tolls (so those that use, pay), and not tax home sellers, I also know that with the Senate the way it is (with, what, two real conservatives), it’s the best they could do to get it passed — a true compromise, unpleasant as it is. Thank you, General Assembly, for doing SOMETHING serious about transportation.

Kaine is, in my opinion, an idiot, who would support every pro-Zapatista candidate running throughout the state. It is no suprise that he is jerking us around on The Transportation Bill. He wants the advantage in November to claim that the Republicans just can’t get Commonwealth business done.

A Pox on him and his filthy allies in Richmond!!!!!