Comments on: County Board Approves Legislative Priorities

By: Arlingtonian

Arlingtonian — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:57:35 +0000

1. Fund the Columbia Pike trolley.
2. Fund the daytime homeless shelter in Courthouse.
3. Fund two, three or four new aquatic centers.
4. Tax the rich (defined as anyome making more money than the Chair of the County Board).
5. Fund affordable housing for tje undocumented (politically incorrect definition: illegal aliens)
6. Fund a secret tunnel connecting the Commonwealth’s treasury in Richmond with Arlington, allowing only northbound traffic.

By: LPS4DL

LPS4DL — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:20:13 +0000

1. Repeal the “Right to work” law.
2. Eliminate caps on lawsuit damages
3. Repeal the Dillon Rule.
4. Increase the gas tax and index it for inflation and fuel efficiency.

By: No one

No one — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:27:44 +0000

Because applying a sales tax across state lines is unconstitutional for a lack of nexus. See Quill Corp. v. North Dakota.

Of course, the county board wants the ability to apply a sales tax on internet purchases…makes perfect sense. They like to spend our money.

And, many people seem to understand the need for states with sales tax to apply the sales tax to internet purchases

BUT, from a business perspective, there are something to the effect of 7,000 different entities that apply sales tax to purchases at varying rates. If everyone did what the county board wants most small business would be out of business because they would spend all their time doing compliance and not running their business.

So, i am against any form of internet sales tax because once states are constitutionally allowed to tax internet sales (would only require a law change by congress) everyone and there mother would be clamoring for the right.

By: Hank Hill

Hank Hill — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:20:40 +0000

1. raise taxes
2. amensty for illegals
3. abolish cars
4. Spainsh as the offical langauge

By: drax

drax — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:25:33 +0000

The board’s priority should be running a good government. Sometimes that requires lowering certain taxes, sometimes raising them.

By: SmallBizOwner

SmallBizOwner — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:13:10 +0000

I’m positively delighted to see this- on an apples to apples basis small businesses get killed by mega-online retailers in part because off the tax issue. Lowering the difference by 5-7% in sales taxes gives me a chance to compete for business based on customer service and timing (I still will be a bit more expensive because of volume but you get your product today…)

(small biz hat off) As a tax payer I’m very comfortable on more taxation being based on consumption of durables- don’t want to pay the tax? Don’t buy the good you don’t need anyway… Also, it’s ridiculous that these companies are just pocketing an increasing share of our local tax revenue.

By: Josh S

Josh S — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:08:58 +0000

Far better idea to raise the sales tax and decrease income taxes.

By: Hollywood

Hollywood — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:36:16 +0000

That would be a good start. But what I was really saying before you decided to create the straw man was that the board’s priority should be to help the citizens keep more of their money, not thinking of ways to forcibly extract it from us more easily.

By: drax

drax — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:13:19 +0000

Do you want to abolish the sales tax?

By: TCE

TCE — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:46:39 +0000

… and that’s why the enlightend, thoughtful, and intelligent majority of voters in Virginia decided to vote for Obama.

It’s always a laugh when a minority voter slanders the majority voters for not voting like them.