Hold On To Your Wallets, Virginia!

Creigh Deeds wants to be your governor!  And you can bet first and foremost, Deeds will want to raise your gas tax just as Virginia's wallets are being stretched by current gas prices and the Obama recession.  The Dems will try and sell Deeds as a "centrist rural" candidate that can win everywhere, at his core he is what all the Dems are . . . tax hikers.  Bob McDonnell has put together a platform that is new for Republicans, based on new Republicanism in the post-Bush era of true fiscal conservatism, offshore expansion, an all-of-the-above energy plan, and low taxes to keep business in Virginia and foster small businesses instead of killing them with taxes and regulation.

Then we have Creigh Deeds, who as the RGA has helpfully reminded us, hasn't met a tax he can't hike.

Despite prevailing in tonight’s gubernatorial primary, even Democrats know Creigh Deeds’ record of hiking taxes makes him unelectable this fall.

It’s no surprise that Democrat Terry McAuliffe said "Bob already beat Creigh once and he beat him on the gas tax.”

Brian Moran’s campaign also blasted Deeds in an ad saying, “raising the gas tax in the middle of a recession only hurts working people.”

As a state legislator, Creigh Deeds has repeatedly voted to hike taxes:

•Deeds voted twice in 2008 to hike the gas tax. Even when gas was at $4 per gallon, Deeds voted to hike Virginia’s gas tax by more than 30 percent (SB 6009 and SB 713, 2008).

•Supported hiking the motor vehicle sales and use tax by 25 percent (SB 5013, 2006 Special Session).

•Voted to double the fuel sales tax in Northern Virginia (SB 458, 2004).

•Supported increasing the motor vehicle registration fee by $10 (SB 5013, 2006 Special Session).

•In 2004, Deeds helped pass a $1.4 billion tax increase, the largest tax hike in Virginia history (Richmond Times Dispatch, 9/22/05).

•That same year he voted to increase Virginia’s cigarette tax by 12 fold (The Roanoke Times, 2/22/09).

•As far back as 1992, Deeds voted to increase the cigarette tax by 60 percent (The Roanoke Times, 2/22/09).

•Opposed Bob McDonnell’s plan to repeal Virginia’s death tax. (The Roanoke Times, 1/10/03).

•Deeds even pulled the plug on a property tax exemption that a non-profit organization requested to create a 273-acre camp on a parcel that had sat vacant for decades. The non-profit group was planning to invest $7 million into the site (The Roanoke Times 2/13/95).

•Even Mark Warner said that 2008 was no time to be raising gasoline taxes.

There is more than just the usual Republican cant about "your gonna raise taxes."  First and foremost, as I've shown above, McDonnell isn't just a fingerpointer like Earley and Kilgore were, but rather he has brought about a new agenda that Republicans haven't seen since George Allen ran in 1993.  But more importantly, there has never been a time where Virginians can't have taxes raised, especially the gas tax.  We've already seen gas prices climb higher and higher as May turned into June, I can't image what Deeds will say when he wants to turn a $30 full tank into a $50 full tank.  

Its on.

Comments

[Todd]

"Creigh Deeds wants to be your governor! And you can bet first and foremost, Deeds will want to raise your gas tax just as Virginia's wallets are being stretched by current gas prices and the Obama recession."

Either you're drunk or you're just being too partisan for your own good. We have been in a deep recession since late 2007. The last time I checked, Obama just got into office in late January. Also, I give Deeds kudos for having the guts to propose a working transportation plan that is equitable versus Bob McDonnell cowardly taking the easy way out and supporting a plan that was deemed unconstitutional.

I guess that third-rate law degree really is good preparation to be governor, huh?

[200 Grande]

Okay,...we've now learned that raising taxes on gasoline is "equitable." If you've got anything else...

JUST BRING IT!

[Todd]

200 Grande:

A gas tax IS equitable because it affects EVERYONE who uses the roads, not just Virginians. I know the cowardly GOP copout is to say that we don't need to pay for crumbling bridges and highways (NO NEW TAXES!!), but Deeds is being honest. McDonnell likes to grin and smile, pretending to be a moderate, but he's still the same right-wing wacko who supported an UNCONSTITUTIONAL transportation plan because he had no other plans of his own. Great leadership.