anyone that wants to write a check for $2,000 - $3,0000 (if not higher) every year for the car they already paid sales taxes on, then feel free to write that check year after year after year

anyone who cannot already afford a new car, and who certainly can't afford another couple of thousand a year for taxes (that the state can spend on your family much better than you can), just keep driving that old clunker spewing fumes and leaking fluids down the highway

yeah punitive taxation works

Gov Kaine sought to remove the Car Tax completely with a corresponding increasing the state income tax rate.
Another gimme to those that don't pay income tax. How about an increase in the sales tax. That, at least, picks up those in the underground economy that buy items in the normal economy.

Gov. Gilmore did NOT get rid of the car tax. He wanted to, but didn't. The legislature opted for a reduction of taxes for those personally owned vehicles that are under a certain GVWR (I know, I pay full boat for my pickup and I don't use it for business purposes, but I do have the need to carry or pull more than 500 lbs.)

Additionally, Gov. Kaine submitted his going out the door budget that recommended the abolishment of the car tax in favor of an increase in the income tax rate.

You can have your own opinions, but you aren't allowed your own set of facts.

You may hate Conservatives or Republicans, but if you were to actually take the time to research the issues, you may actually change your mind. Of course, I'm assuming that you'll do some independent research and you're not dependent on the government for your day to day existence.

The problem isn't that we are not being taxed enough. The problem is that our tax dollars are not going to where they are intended. We are, quite literally, throwing handfulls of dollar bills at potholes on a windy day, hoping that that is the fix. It's not. It never was. The money just gets blown into the coffers of the Democrats personal slush fund. Remember when the Democrats said increased taxes and revenue from the lottery would fund road and education projects? Guess what? Virginia did collect more than enough money to fund the projects. But the money blew away. Disappeared. Poof. No accountability. Now we are faced with yet more demands for our money from the very same folks who are promising that THIS TIME, they really will spend the money on roads and education.

There are things that need fixing. Problems that require attention are piling up. We hear that there isn't money to do it and some get elected because they vow not to increase taxes, which sounds nice to many people, but the things that need fixing don't get fixed, they get worse. We send our representatives to Richmond and Washington, D.C. to resolve these problems but nothing seems to get done to resolve them. Apparently "we the people" aren't doing a very good job of picking the right people to represent us. We have two groups of people. One group wants to convince us that they can do everything with very little money and they don't raise taxes, they borrow money. The other group promises to do everything if we let them borrow the money and raise taxes. If we foolishly believe this is the proper way to run our country and that everything will be paid for by someone else, we are going to reap some real and serious consequences. The bills are piling up and someone has to pay them.

But the basic fact is that under the two Democrat governors the State budget more than doubled during a decade of low inflation and only 14% population growth.

The share of our incomes consumed by state and local governments exploded, more than canceling out the benefits of the Bush federal tax cuts.

This is what is dragging our economy down and preventing recovery from the burst of the housing bubble. To get out of this down cycle, we must produce more wealth than we consume, and with government, which produces no wealth, eating up a larger and larger share of the private sectors bounty, we are unable to produce enough to feed it and leave enough for growth.