When Is A Tax Increase Not A Tax Increase?

April 30, 2007 by Cato  
Filed under Conservatism, Republican Campaigns, Virginia, Virginia Politics

Challenger Joe Blackburn appears to have slapped Virginia Senate Majority Leader Walter Stosch around like a pinata during their debate Thursday night. Sen. Stosch went so far as to claim that the $1.4 billion tax increase in 2004 wasn’t really a $1.4 billion tax increase.

The most telling comment of the night came from Mr. Blackburn:

If you put a dime in my left pocket and take a dollar out of my right
pocket, that is a tax increase. You must have to be a CPA to say that
is a tax cut.

Principle will triumph. Even if the GOP lose the majority this year, rebuilding will not be a decades long process because the RPV seems willing to clean its own house. They will be able to go back to the voters and clearly state that they belief in a set of principles while the Dems (and a relatively few GOP pols) believe in nothing, but winning a majority.

Technorati Tags: Virginia, politics, virginiapolitics, principle, conservatism, WalterStosch, JoeBlackburn, taxation, fiscalpolicy