Business Groups Seek Tax Increases for Roads.

N.B. some of the organizations listed: the Associated General Contractors of Virginia, the Virginia Association of Realtors, and the Virginia Education Association. The first two have obvious economic interests at stake. And the VEA? It probably just doesn’t want to miss any opportunity to go on record in favor of a tax hike, no matter the cause.

Sorry, Bart, but you have that wrong.

The real winner of the “least-surprising story” award is that the narcs discovered that there were drugs on a college campus—in California of all places!

I was shocked . . . SHOCKED!
-- Roy

I think it’s important to remember that a lot of people depend on the areas bad roads for their incomes.

Bones snapping pot holes mean blown struts and shocks...which lead to whacked out wheel alignment and make driving the Land Rover while talking on the cell, poking at the Blackberry and holding a $7 lattee between your knees very hard. For many of the indiginous tribespeople of the area, repairing these items for the correct thinking class is their only means of support.

As for the VEA...they’re just getting in some practice for when the dems repeal right to work and pass the “vote union or never walk again” card check law.

That will be the day before they pass Ted Kennedy’s thought crime law.

Agree!!! More roads means more innocuous 1/10 mile signs on Interstates. More luxury rest areas. They encourage the SUV mentality of “mine is bigger than yours” that is left over from grade school.

Of course the VEA is always interested in more tax monies for their “empty knowledge” buildings. I guess they need a place for their diverse kids to sit between bus rides.

Mr. Biscuit, I for one don’t need I-95 any farther south than Petersburg. If I need to travel further down a country road will do fine. So...why should my taxes go toward that portion of the interstate? So lazy Mr. Fat Guy can take his kids to Florida?

I’d rather my tax dollars go to helping some junkie get into treatment—a person wanting to make their life better—than have those same tax dollars fund some lard-ass’s unnecessary trip to Myrtle Beach.

Who needs roads ?

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