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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

+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.
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