HB 3202 Court Opinion
By Greg L | 1 March 2008 | 13th HOD District, Virginia Politics | 3 Comments
I have the Virginia Supreme Court’s opinion on the HB 3202 decision here. Revel in the joy of watching Bob Marshall humble those who have been casually dismissing him, as so often seems to happen, in reading this scathing rebuke of this scheme to establish unconstitutional taxation authorities in Virginia.
It won’t take all that much to actually fix this, since all that needs to be done is have localities impose taxes and direct the proceeds to the NVTA, if this is really what we want to do. That would let localities choose to participate or not on their own, instead of being dragged into this if enough of their neighbors decided they wanted to do it. Most of the problems here were introduced when Governor Kaine amended HB 3202, and if we undo those, and fix who is calling the shots for taxes, we could do this the right way, instead of pretending that the Constitution doesn’t say what it clearly does say.
Of course that depends on legislators actually voting to increase taxes on their constituents. Now they don’t have the NVTA to hide behind, which might make just a little bit of difference.
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Well, if members of the General Assembly would spend more time fixing problems instead of expending all their energy finding ways to not be on the record as voting for or against something, we’d all be better off.
Good ole’ Bob….screw any solution for transportation……..nice goin Bob……..we need moe horses on the trail!!! whatta guy
HEARTBLEED said on 1 Mar 2008 at 10:49 am:
Good ole’ Bob….screw any solution for transportation……..nice goin Bob……..we need moe horses on the trail!!! whatta guy
Vent your frustrations on the people who caused the transportation mess we have in the area (THE DEVELOPERS.) When unabated building and massive developments are continued to be allowed with no provisions being made to address transportation by the developers/supervisors, what do you expect? That HR3202 bill should never have been passed as it was stated at that time that it was unconstitutional but they passed it anyway. Now they have to figure out how they are going to pay back the money they have already collected illegaly.