Winsome Earle-Sears is running for Governor of Virginia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Virginia_gubernatorial_election
She wants to get rid of the car tax:
https://xcancel.com/winwithwinsome/status/1943022815583600667
This is the dumbest tax plan EVER.
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Virginia residents who own a car get millions in cuts 💰
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Virginia residents who are car-free get nothing ❌
Who comes up with this non-sense🤦?
Only 3 states Delaware, Montana, and New Jersey raise enough revenue from cars to fully cover their highway spending. The remaining 47 states must make up the difference with tax revenues from other sources
By diverting general funds to roadway spending, the burden of paying for the roads falls on all taxpayers, including people who drive very little or may not drive at all.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-road-taxes-funding/
I grew up in Virginia. When I was in the 3rd grade, Jim Gilmore won on a “no car tax” campaign in 1998. Funny how we still have car tax hmm…
Ah yes. The magical self maintaining roads.
Defund highways yesterday, and let’s build free public transit everywhere, but she’s right that regressive taxes aren’t the way to win the world we want. A wealth tax (or inheritance tax, or financial transactions tax, etc) would be far preferable. To miss that and adopt policies that exacerbate the cost of living crisis (even when they serve good goals) is to fail to understand the Yellow Vest protests and their lessons entirely.
I’m okay with regressive even punitive taxes on shitty things to pay for those shitty things.
And then they’ll complain about potholes.
You Winsome, you lose some.
Anytime I hear “ax the tax” I know it’s removing a tax that benefits society and replacing it with a detriment to society. Without fail
You don’t have to pay taxes on your car if you don’t drive it on public roads.
You buy a computer, pay for it, and then you still need to pay for power and internet?
Does she mean registration?
No, in Virginia there’s an annual property tax on cars
I hope she means personal property tax because that’s far more expensive than the registration. I actually don’t mind paying the registration because the place I live actually uses it back in the community. Matter of fact during COVID the DMV was really relaxed with missed deadlines and the county even gave us a rebate when they over collected. This bitch is crazy and I really hope this petty little promise of a handout backfires on her.
On the contrary, cars are way too subsidized! We should be taxing these vehicles to appropriately reflect their social cost.
Especially gas, by removing subsidies.
When people complain about how expensive gasoline is, I usually suggest it be over $20/gallon to actually fund road maintenance, and clean up its environmental damage. Nobody’s agreed with me yet.
I agree with you!
Thank you. I’d expect it here.
But in the real world I suddenly grow a second head on my shoulders.In Europe we pay like $6-8 per gallon, some countries may be paying even more.
We just need to build trains everywhere. That will solve all of our problems in this category.
It’s $8 a gallon in sweden and it’s still subsidized
Unless there are some other drastic changes in funding, and a slow ramp up to this tax, you’d absolutely destroy the working class people working the lower wage jobs. Poorer people tend to not have any remote work, and would most likely be driving an older, less fuel efficient and non-electric car.
All of that is true.
So of course it would have to be phased in over at least a few years. That’s the way these things are always done anyway.
Also trucks… One reason car taxes have increased a lot in recent years where I live is trucking lobbies lobbying government to reduced road taxes on trucks and increase weight limits on trucks.
Wait, she has a point, axe the tax, but completely stop spending government money on roads made for cars.
She’s also a Republican in all the worst kind of ways. Looking at her Wikipedia page just… Yikes.
Good. Let them pay tolls everywhere they go.
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I agree it’s pretty stupid to pay a tax just for owning something. Let’s change it so they pay it every time they use it. Much more fair.
You mean a tax on gas?
More like a tax on weight over roads
You got married but you have to be nice to your wife to get a blowjob? If I’m elected governor, everyone’s wives will have to give them a blowjob whenever they want, no questions asked.
