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Originally Posted by noahath
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NOVA and Tidewater are nightmares as they are massively overpopulated in relation to their road systems. If you hope to win votes there you make the better case for how you will help them. And you HAVE to get votes there to win the state. The remainder of the state has no appetite to pay for roads there. The main argument is that there are too damn many people there and the rest of the coommonwealth is also open for business and could use the jobs.
Deeds had NO plan as his only schtick is raising taxes. Thats not going to happen.
McDonnell has a plan, not sure how viable it is, certianly better than nothing but enough to rally tackle it and 100% doable ? We'll see.
Go back over anything like recent elections and roads is the blinking neon issue.
Mark Warner got his biggest tax increase i history on the promise it would solve the road issue forever. His increase became a sruplus (as it was unnecessary) and virtually none of it went to roads. His only other victory was getteing the ability for localities to levy their own taxes (for roads) only to have NOVA and Tidewater say 'no damn way' to local bills (and which was ultimately shot down by the Supreme Court). Why this clown remains popular is beyond me.
Try driving around those places and you will see the issue is real.