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Amid Scandal, Northam Surrenders to Virginia’s GOP on Tax Cuts
Nationalreview.com ^ | 2/8/19 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 02/08/2019 1:08:16 PM PST by cotton1706

Virginia’s ongoing scandals of racist yearbook photos and resignation demands are starting to have repercussions on the state’s taxes and spending.

The 2017 federal tax cut signed into law by President Trump capped the amount of state and local taxes that could be deducted, which could add up to a higher tax bill to some Virginians. This year, Virginia Republicans wanted to cut taxes to offset that by raising the standard deduction on state income taxes.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: california; dukeuniversity; elections; incometaxes; jimgeraghty; justinfairfax; meredithwatson; metoo; nationalreview; ralphnortham; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja; vanessatyson; virginia

1 posted on 02/08/2019 1:08:16 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Get while the gettin’s good.......................


2 posted on 02/08/2019 1:10:05 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: cotton1706

VA governors can’t serve consecutive terms, so there’s no re-election pressure. And he couldn’t run for any other office as a Democrat in VA, anyway, given how the black vote (~50% of the Democratic primary vote) would be monolithically against him. Plus, the guy’s an economic conservative and social liberal - a George HW Bush-type politician. So this scandal, which has put a ceiling on his political aspirations, means he doesn’t have to compromise with Democratic liberals any more. Him staying in office will be a real bonanza for the GOP in VA.


3 posted on 02/08/2019 1:56:30 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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