Most states don’t have the yearly car use tax (some do). When I lived in Ohio we didn’t have it. But we did have: local income tax in the vast majority of suburbs, that wasn’t taken out of your paycheck, so you had a pretty big bill due every spring when the tax agency calculated it. We had higher sales tax - though not on food/groceries like here. And a much higher property tax rate. A home listed at $485k in my hometown had a property tax bill of $6000. A home listed at $715k in my current zip code here has a property tax bill of $6100. Unless they massively cut spending somewhere else, we’ll be paying the bill in other ways.

What Youngkin needs to do away with is the yearly car safety inspection requirement. That’s a massive pain in the ass and isn’t necessary anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:If you spend just $500 per month on groceries, that's $1500 per year. Maybe that's nothing to you, but that's meaningful for many people. OP: you must be quite privileged.

=500*12 =6000 yearly 2.5% is $150 dollars.....

DP. I'm so glad you showed up so yet another person could point out pp's math error. You really are contributing important substance to the discussion that no one else noticed before.

Obviously a new tax on northern Virginia home sales. Another $1 tax per thousand of sales price would fill the coffers fast. As a bonus it would p*ss off liberals as much as the congestion relief tax.

Well, ROVA is a poverty state that NOVA needs to support.

That's not how property, specifically real estate, taxes work.

It kind of is. The rest of the state subsists off of NOVA income taxes. NOVA local real estate taxes have to be high because all of our state level taxes are going to the Shenandoah valley or to Hampton Roads

That’s missing the post. In Virginia, real property taxes are reserved for the localities and cannot be imposed at the state level. Just like how only the state can impose income taxes, and not the localities. The state cannot make up lost revenue from the car or grocery tax by imposing state-level real estate taxes.

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Anonymous wrote:If you spend just $500 per month on groceries, that's $1500 per year. Maybe that's nothing to you, but that's meaningful for many people. OP: you must be quite privileged.

=500*12 =6000 yearly 2.5% is $150 dollars.....

DP. I'm so glad you showed up so yet another person could point out pp's math error. You really are contributing important substance to the discussion that no one else noticed before.

Obviously a new tax on northern Virginia home sales. Another $1 tax per thousand of sales price would fill the coffers fast. As a bonus it would p*ss off liberals as much as the congestion relief tax.

Well, ROVA is a poverty state that NOVA needs to support.

That's not how property, specifically real estate, taxes work.

It kind of is. The rest of the state subsists off of NOVA income taxes. NOVA local real estate taxes have to be high because all of our state level taxes are going to the Shenandoah valley or to Hampton Roads

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Anonymous wrote:If he wants to win popular opinion- get rid of car tax. Nothing pissed people off more than car tax. I’d vote for a crazy person if they promised to get rid of it.

Sure, if he’s willing to raise taxes elsewhere. That was why Gilmore’s effort to repeal it failed.

More people would be willing to buy new cars. I know DH and I put off new car purchases because of car tax. It would also make thousands of people register their cars in Virginia instead of Florida/Texas or whatever. I know LOTS of car tax cheats. It's only honest people who get screwed by this tax.

Not enough to offset the loss of revenue from the car tax.

I mean, Virginia literally tried exactly what you are suggesting and it was a failure, which is why the legislature abandoned the repeal last time.

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Anonymous wrote:If he wants to win popular opinion- get rid of car tax. Nothing pissed people off more than car tax. I’d vote for a crazy person if they promised to get rid of it.

Sure, if he’s willing to raise taxes elsewhere. That was why Gilmore’s effort to repeal it failed.

More people would be willing to buy new cars. I know DH and I put off new car purchases because of car tax. It would also make thousands of people register their cars in Virginia instead of Florida/Texas or whatever. I know LOTS of car tax cheats. It's only honest people who get screwed by this tax.

Not enough to offset the loss of revenue from the car tax.

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Anonymous wrote:If he wants to win popular opinion- get rid of car tax. Nothing pissed people off more than car tax. I’d vote for a crazy person if they promised to get rid of it.

Sure, if he’s willing to raise taxes elsewhere. That was why Gilmore’s effort to repeal it failed.

More people would be willing to buy new cars. I know DH and I put off new car purchases because of car tax. It would also make thousands of people register their cars in Virginia instead of Florida/Texas or whatever. I know LOTS of car tax cheats. It's only honest people who get screwed by this tax.

Anonymous wrote:If he wants to win popular opinion- get rid of car tax. Nothing pissed people off more than car tax. I’d vote for a crazy person if they promised to get rid of it.

+1 I'd even vote for Trump.

Anonymous wrote:If he wants to win popular opinion- get rid of car tax. Nothing pissed people off more than car tax. I’d vote for a crazy person if they promised to get rid of it.

Sure, if he’s willing to raise taxes elsewhere. That was why Gilmore’s effort to repeal it failed.

If he wants to win popular opinion- get rid of car tax. Nothing pissed people off more than car tax. I’d vote for a crazy person if they promised to get rid of it.

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Anonymous wrote:groceries sales tax is only 2.5% so you won't even noticed it after its repealed by Youngkin, you will only noticed it if you're poor and pay in cash or if you look at the bill, If you spend $100 dollars on groceries it will only save you $2.50.... If they want to repeal a tax they should start with the SALES TAX AND THE RESTATE TAX AND the INCOME TAX. Just removing the Groceries tax is bs....

Only a liberal elitist would think that $2.50 is not important to people. The grocery sales tax is among the most regressive taxes because everyone pays it whether one person is buying $100 of groceries to feed a family of four for a month or one person is buying $100 worth of items for a chacuterie board.

$2.50 can buy three cans of soup on sale.

There are liberal elitists here?? I’m shocked. Shocked, I say.

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Anonymous wrote:If you spend just $500 per month on groceries, that's $1500 per year. Maybe that's nothing to you, but that's meaningful for many people. OP: you must be quite privileged.

=500*12 =6000 yearly 2.5% is $150 dollars.....

DP. I'm so glad you showed up so yet another person could point out pp's math error. You really are contributing important substance to the discussion that no one else noticed before.

Obviously a new tax on northern Virginia home sales. Another $1 tax per thousand of sales price would fill the coffers fast. As a bonus it would p*ss off liberals as much as the congestion relief tax.

Well, ROVA is a poverty state that NOVA needs to support.

That's not how property, specifically real estate, taxes work.

You’re right, but sometimes it’s fun to play along with their deluded fantasies for a bit.

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Anonymous wrote:If you spend just $500 per month on groceries, that's $1500 per year. Maybe that's nothing to you, but that's meaningful for many people. OP: you must be quite privileged.

=500*12 =6000 yearly 2.5% is $150 dollars.....

DP. I'm so glad you showed up so yet another person could point out pp's math error. You really are contributing important substance to the discussion that no one else noticed before.

Obviously a new tax on northern Virginia home sales. Another $1 tax per thousand of sales price would fill the coffers fast. As a bonus it would p*ss off liberals as much as the congestion relief tax.

Well, ROVA is a poverty state that NOVA needs to support.

That's not how property, specifically real estate, taxes work.

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Anonymous wrote:If you spend just $500 per month on groceries, that's $1500 per year. Maybe that's nothing to you, but that's meaningful for many people. OP: you must be quite privileged.

=500*12 =6000 yearly 2.5% is $150 dollars.....

DP. I'm so glad you showed up so yet another person could point out pp's math error. You really are contributing important substance to the discussion that no one else noticed before.

Obviously a new tax on northern Virginia home sales. Another $1 tax per thousand of sales price would fill the coffers fast. As a bonus it would p*ss off liberals as much as the congestion relief tax.

Well, ROVA is a poverty state that NOVA needs to support.

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Anonymous wrote:If you spend just $500 per month on groceries, that's $1500 per year. Maybe that's nothing to you, but that's meaningful for many people. OP: you must be quite privileged.

=500*12 =6000 yearly 2.5% is $150 dollars.....

DP. I'm so glad you showed up so yet another person could point out pp's math error. You really are contributing important substance to the discussion that no one else noticed before.

Obviously a new tax on northern Virginia home sales. Another $1 tax per thousand of sales price would fill the coffers fast. As a bonus it would p*ss off liberals as much as the congestion relief tax.

Anonymous wrote:YAY

Sure, just show us how you're going to make up the revenue. Democrats generally aren't opposed to repealing the grocery tax, they just want to know the rest of the plan too.