Virginia's slimy Democrat Governor Mark Warner was elected on a campaign promise of not raising taxes. To convince the voters that he was sincere about his pledge, Warner screamed three times, "I will not raise taxes! I will not raise taxes! I will not raise taxes!".

Shortly after taking office, the goddamned filthy scum-sucking liar started pushing for the largest tax increase in Virginia history. Today, the hapless, no-good, tax and spend, so-called conservative, GOP dimwitted fucktards gave him his wish.

Warner had only asked for $1 Billion. The House gave him nearly $700 Million of that. Today, illustrating just how moronic Virginia Republicans are, the Senate gave him $1.36 Billion (down from the $4 Billion they were prepared to give him last month). The Senate vote was a 31-8 landslide. The House approved the Senate bill, which means that we Virginians will face the largest tax increase in the more than 200 year history of the Commonwealth. One pro-tax legislator, who should be at the top of the tar and feather list, even went so far as to threaten to release the "beltway sniper" if the budget impasse is not solved, saying (paraphrased from WMAL soundbite) "The worst case scenario is we'll have to let the sniper go."

For you tax and spend Democrats out there, you should realize that this tax is what you would call "regressive". That is, it raises the state sales tax, raises the cigarette tax, and raises the car tax. To steal the liberal "regressive tax" argument, the sales tax while obviously affecting everyone, will take a larger percentage of income from the poorest Virginians. The cigarette tax will only affect smokers and tobacco farmers (who typically come from the lower income brackets) as well as small business owners and retailers who sell cigarettes. The car tax rebate is a model whereby the state reimburses citizens for the local tax on the first $20,000 of their vehicle's value. Freezing the rebate will have the biggest impact on all those poor folks and college students with cheap cars. Comparatively, rich folks driving around in evil, gas guzzling, SUVs valued at $50,000 will barely feel the pinch.

Now, I'm not saying that the rich aren't paying "their fair share", I'm merely pointing out that this tax hike should be extremely unpopular on both sides of the political spectrum.