Governor Youngkin's Visionary Step: Eliminating the Double Tax on Virginians' Vehicles

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Drive through neighborhoods in NOVA consisting of $2-4M homes and you’ll see mostly Toyota Camrys and RAV4s, Honda Accords and CRVs, Suburu Imprezas and Foresters, Hyundai’s, Kia’s, and minivans. Drive through similar neighborhoods in DC and MD and you’ll see driveways full of luxury cars.

I imagine NOVA car dealers will be quite pleased with the Governor’s proposal.

The car tax is not why we do that. The cost of the car tax does not enter my mind when selecting a car.

Disagree. It’s top of my mind. Paying 4K a year in car tax s painful. I’d 100% vote republican if they got rid of this.

Besides. There are so many car tax dodgers that they’d likely not lose as much as you think. Go after those cars and force them to register here.

My grandma bought me a new 30k car when I graduated college. I couldn’t afford to register it in Virginia when I moved here immediately after. Kept it registered in my old state for 10 years instead I only made 40k

If you have expensive cars that necessitate a $4k car tax bill, you've done something very wrong if that is "painful".

Np. We have a Honda Odyssey and a pickup truck that’s needed for work. Sure I wish both were cheaper. We buy cars and keep them for 10 years or so. I guess I can look forward to less car tax in a decade. It’s shocking how high our car tax bill is. I can’t imagine buying an actual luxury car for that reason

[Anonymous]

Love Youngkin! My first republican vote ever just keeps on giving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please baby Jesus get rid of the car tax. VA is taxed way too much and that's why they had a surplus the last few years and had to send money back to the taxpayers. This whole system is F'ed up and all the while we can't see the road when it's raining and dark because VDOT can't even bother with reflective paint and no one can repave of fix the pot holes. I can't wait to leave the state for good it's just too much.

I can assure you that the roads in TX are god awful. I was just driving on them less than a week ago.

Good luck or whatever?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Drive through neighborhoods in NOVA consisting of $2-4M homes and you’ll see mostly Toyota Camrys and RAV4s, Honda Accords and CRVs, Suburu Imprezas and Foresters, Hyundai’s, Kia’s, and minivans. Drive through similar neighborhoods in DC and MD and you’ll see driveways full of luxury cars.

I imagine NOVA car dealers will be quite pleased with the Governor’s proposal.

I’m not sure what neighborhoods you are driving through. My Arlington neighborhood where new builds go for 3 million are full of Volvos, BMWs, and Teslas. Sure, there are minivans and SUVs but nobody drives the cars you mentioned. Same with McLean. No one is driving around in a RAV 4 or Kia.

+1. I really have no clue where these expensive neighborhoods full of cheap cars are located. Maybe the PP who suggested that could give us some street names. Rich people tend to buy expensive cars. It's not a universal rule, but it's close.

I have mixed feelings about this proposal: On the one hand, maybe we will finally stop seeing people perpetrate the myth that VA taxes are lower than MD or DC. When it's an apples-to-apples comparison, I think it's going to be very close. On the other hand, VA's income tax is basically a flat tax (https://www.tax.virginia.gov/sites/default/files/2016-12/TAXTABLE.pdf), so it's horribly regressive, and so unless that is fixed, this is just basically an excuse to reduce the tax burden on rich people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please baby Jesus get rid of the car tax. VA is taxed way too much and that's why they had a surplus the last few years and had to send money back to the taxpayers. This whole system is F'ed up and all the while we can't see the road when it's raining and dark because VDOT can't even bother with reflective paint and no one can repave of fix the pot holes. I can't wait to leave the state for good it's just too much.

Paint is bad for the environment. Do you hate the environment?

[Anonymous]

After the salt tax is limited this local tax is stupid, get rid of it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He will need to figure out where to capture other revenue for the state to make up for the shortfall, which likely would result in tax increases that would make it more obvious that VA isn't actually a lower tax state than DC or MD.

That or do what other republicans do and blow up the debt and leave it for someone else to fix.

This. Eliminating the tax is easy, making it revenue neutral is impossible.

+1

Plus the MFer wants to ban abortion. FAIL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He will need to figure out where to capture other revenue for the state to make up for the shortfall, which likely would result in tax increases that would make it more obvious that VA isn't actually a lower tax state than DC or MD.

That or do what other republicans do and blow up the debt and leave it for someone else to fix.

This. Eliminating the tax is easy, making it revenue neutral is impossible.

+1

Plus the MFer wants to ban abortion. FAIL.

Abortion doesn't help taxes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drive through neighborhoods in NOVA consisting of $2-4M homes and you’ll see mostly Toyota Camrys and RAV4s, Honda Accords and CRVs, Suburu Imprezas and Foresters, Hyundai’s, Kia’s, and minivans. Drive through similar neighborhoods in DC and MD and you’ll see driveways full of luxury cars.

I imagine NOVA car dealers will be quite pleased with the Governor’s proposal.

I’m not sure what neighborhoods you are driving through. My Arlington neighborhood where new builds go for 3 million are full of Volvos, BMWs, and Teslas. Sure, there are minivans and SUVs but nobody drives the cars you mentioned. Same with McLean. No one is driving around in a RAV 4 or Kia.

+1. I really have no clue where these expensive neighborhoods full of cheap cars are located. Maybe the PP who suggested that could give us some street names. Rich people tend to buy expensive cars. It's not a universal rule, but it's close.

I have mixed feelings about this proposal: On the one hand, maybe we will finally stop seeing people perpetrate the myth that VA taxes are lower than MD or DC. When it's an apples-to-apples comparison, I think it's going to be very close. On the other hand, VA's income tax is basically a flat tax (https://www.tax.virginia.gov/sites/default/files/2016-12/TAXTABLE.pdf), so it's horribly regressive, and so unless that is fixed, this is just basically an excuse to reduce the tax burden on rich people.

regressive isn't associated with horrible that's your opinion, it actually can help all people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good for him. May it be so.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is visionary about a purportedly anti-tax governor proposing to eliminate a state tax that few other states even have?

Why haven't any governors before him done this then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He will need to figure out where to capture other revenue for the state to make up for the shortfall, which likely would result in tax increases that would make it more obvious that VA isn't actually a lower tax state than DC or MD.

That or do what other republicans do and blow up the debt and leave it for someone else to fix.

This. Eliminating the tax is easy, making it revenue neutral is impossible.

+1

Plus the MFer wants to ban abortion. FAIL.

Abortion doesn't help taxes

He sucks in many ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He will need to figure out where to capture other revenue for the state to make up for the shortfall, which likely would result in tax increases that would make it more obvious that VA isn't actually a lower tax state than DC or MD.

That or do what other republicans do and blow up the debt and leave it for someone else to fix.

This. Eliminating the tax is easy, making it revenue neutral is impossible.

+1

Plus the MFer wants to ban abortion. FAIL.

Abortion doesn't help taxes

He sucks in many ways.

Many other high taxes states can help you abbort

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is visionary about a purportedly anti-tax governor proposing to eliminate a state tax that few other states even have?

Why haven't any governors before him done this then?

Crickets...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He will need to figure out where to capture other revenue for the state to make up for the shortfall, which likely would result in tax increases that would make it more obvious that VA isn't actually a lower tax state than DC or MD.

That or do what other republicans do and blow up the debt and leave it for someone else to fix.

This. Eliminating the tax is easy, making it revenue neutral is impossible.

+1

Plus the MFer wants to ban abortion. FAIL.

Abortion doesn't help taxes

He sucks in many ways.

Many other high taxes states can help you abbort

So you hate women and public services.