Personally, I’d prefer downloading secondary roads to the localities (Frederick’s bill, HB 6025). but I’d take redirecting existing revenues (as you would).

As for the Senate bill, I specifically recall Bill Howell asking the House Finance Committee in 2004 to let Mark Warner’s tax increase reach the floor so it could be killed.

The rest is history.

“To make matters worse, Howell also had the Senate multi-tax disaster sent to the floor on an 11-4 vote (once again, all eight Republicans voted aye).”

That is being purely done to make the democrats vote for that plan on the reocrd. No republicans will be voting for that when it comes up for the whole house

Serious question on the first bill

What would you propose instead

There IS a maintanence deficit
NoVa gets screwed over wiht higher taxes

I think we are on the same page that our number one choice is to cut spending and earmark it for transportation

But realistically, that isn’t going to happen. The senate would block it or Kaine would veto it.

Let me repeat doing nothing continues to screw over NoVA