England has a good road system. You can drive from London to the west coast in about 5 hours. Thats about how long it takes to drive from DC to the far corner of Virginia.

It’s the same thing with gas prices being higher in Europe. They just don’t have to drive as far. A big commute in England is 30 miles, and they have an extensive commuter rail system to boot.

Our problem is that people want high-paying jobs in overcrowded cities, but want to live on 2-acre estates in the middle of nowhere. So they sign up for 40+ mile commutes, and then get upset that 10,000 other people had the same idea.

Meanwhile, people who sensibly live near where they work are jerked around by increased taxes, and are inconvenienced by the fact that on the rare occasion they actually want to go somewhere like Tysons Corner or down to Fredericksburg, they can’t because of the afforementioned people who think spending 2 hours on the road every day made sense.

They still haven’t solved the “allow wealth creation” issue however, which is why we have so many wealthy European expatriates here in the US, fleeing abuse from their own governments. None of them came here in search of clean trains, or nice roads. In the end, it was liberty that was more important than any of those.

My goodness, you sound more and more socialist as time goes on…

Yeah, we have some serious transportation needs but if throwing money at the problem was the solution, it would be fixed by now.

BTW, by picking up slugs I am able to make the commute from Woodbridge to Capital Hill in under an hour door to door. I really can’t complain about that. The problem is that too many people want to live in Stafford and reach the Pentagon in 30 minutes.

Keep up the fight(s) Bob!

He needs to stay away from those catering his outcome. These people have been closely tied to Kopko and have ruined the Party.

The Treasurer (Royce) has made a mess of the Books and never filed required reports.Big fines on this ,about 3 times.

This baggage would not be good for Fimian.

I think Virginians would be astounded by the amount of our tax dollars that are being paid out to subsidize illegal aliens and their children.

Although children born to illegal aliens in the US are US Citizens, as minors they may not apply for benefits except through a citizen advocate. The benefits of anchor babies comes when reach the age of majority.

Whenever this is brought up to Janet Howell and Ken Plum they infer that only a cold hearted B*s*a*d would even consider such a proposal.

The next time you converse with your VA Representatives, ask them how many illegal aliens and their anchor babies are currently enrolled in state funded Kaiser Permanente HMO.

Bills the Speaker wants to kill or control, he sends to the Rules Committee during this special session. This is not an orderly process. It depends upon the will of one person in a hundred member body, albeit done with the tacit consent of the other House members.

Bob Marshall

The gas tax is a tax that is paid by everyone who drives, including those out of state drivers.

It supplants the alternative of having idiotic “abuser fees” and the accompanying cops in bushes with radar guns, preying on us for revenue.

Even if this gas tax increase costs me $60 per year, I would rather pay that way, than have our law enforcement personnel used as revenue agents.

As for budget cuts, there have been many proposals floated, but few serious ideas submitted by our legislators. Bob Marshall proposed consolidating some museum staff. Other, non-legislators have suggested privatizing the ABC stores, privatizing the rest stops and welcome centers and others have suggested the elimination of redundant programs like the Minority Business Enterprise program (a function that is already performed by every agency that issues contracts).

I urge all citizens to take a thorough look at prior budgets and then write to your legislators and tell them what areas you would like to see subjected to targeted cuts, or consolidations.

Share your ideas for budget cuts/consolidations here, too. It will be interesting to see what budget cuts are proposed. Perhaps a Budget Cut Suggestion open thread is in order?