In all of my 35 years of working, no tax cut by any politition has had any significant impact on my take-home pay…not Mr. Reagan’s and not Mr. Bush’s. And I make a decent salary–at least 50% above national average. Bush’s tax cuts of 2003 amounted to about one meal at a fast food joint per week. I believe that if most middle class people are honest, they would have to say the same.

What angers me is that back in the ’70’s, the United States was the largest creditor nation in the world, and now we are the largest debtor nation because while some politicions talk about tax cuts and balancing the budget, they will not be honest about what would be required in order to accomplish that goal. You want to know why we have such a mess today with sky-rocketing gas prices that are driving up the cost of every commodity that we buy ? You have to look no further than the weak US Dollar! And why do we have a weak US Dollar? We have a weak Dollar because of the deficit! This economy could unravel in a heart beat if any of our creditors decided to pull their money out of the Dollar. We must recognize that if the value of the dollar tanks much further, there will be very little incentive for our creditors to hold onto dollars and absorb the loss. They aren’t taking the hit because they love us. We’re not exactly liked in most parts of the world due to our arrogance and ignorance. America’s days of throwing our weight around seem to be coming to an inglorious end. Do you know how to say Kow-Tow?

If he didn’t run on that platform, especially during the time of George Allen running for Governor… What Republicans would have listened to him?

What is in these legislators craw is that they…THEY, are the ones who got handed a MAJORITY in the House and Senate by Governor Gilmore’s Car Tax Cut. As DJ put up in a post, not long ago, spending went up $9 Billion dollars during Warner’s reign… (along with raising tuition like 70% on average), and these people moan and groan about a $950 Million dollar annual tax cut to the people?

As I said before, you can bet they ran on a low tax platform, and if they simply would have kept THEIR word, we’d all be a little happier now with a MAJORITY in the Senate.

These people feel we have to serve/work for the government, and not the other way around. God forbid that government has to restrain it’s growth. God forbid that fat cat politicians can’t dispense their favors to the highest bidder in their office.

I think it is high time that the VA General Assembly goes back to only meeting every other year. Seriously, look at what happened to the Federal Government since they starting meeting year around? Citizen legislature, limited government, lower taxation… if you can’t be true to it, don’t lie to people by running on it…

I want to see their historical campaign literature….