Comments on: Warner/Gilmore debate

By: ELECTION 2008 PRO AND CONS: MARK WARNER AND JIM GILMORE WEBSITES REVIEW « Citizen Tom

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:04:11 +0000

[...] Vivian J. Paige provides information on the debate (here). [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:08:39 +0000

When a person does a good job they have earned a promotion. What exactly is Jim Gilmores reasoning for seeking a promotion.

By: Spank That Donkey

Spank That Donkey — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:09:10 +0000

Spotter:
What in the state budget is a static amount? Apparently everything is allowed growth except tax cuts?

Again, if in 2006 the General Assembly said that $950 million was a 70% of the phase out then obviously at that time the number was $1.3 billion.

Two poiints…the Warner camp is lying… saying that it was $2 billion when Gilmore was in office in 2002.

Why can everything else grow in the budget almost unchallenged but tax breaks are completely offlimits?

We had two huge surpluses in 2005 and 2006 and not a dime of the surplus went to car tax relief? Obviously in no scenario will the GA send money back to it’s people?

By: So THAT’S where all the money went in Virginia « The right-wing liberal

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:19:57 +0000

[...] translator, but there was one point of disagreement that peaked my curiosity (excerpt from Vivian Paige, emphasis added): Warner: Let’s revisit one of the issues that was one of the ideological hot [...]

By: spotter

spotter — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:27:13 +0000

The car tax cut is not a static amount because the number and value of cars change, STD. That’s the problem with Gilmore’s whole scheme — he didn’t eliminate it, it just became a state expenditure.

By: Spank That Donkey

Spank That Donkey — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:05:25 +0000

btw… I’ll take a $2 billion dollar tax cut if Warner insists

By: Spank That Donkey

Spank That Donkey — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:04:09 +0000

Hold on now, this from the Warner camp?
“1. Car Tax- Gilmore is lying about the cost of the car tax. Car tax costs more than TRIPLED from campaign through end of Gilmore’s term- from $620 million to over $2 billion.”

OK.. if it the General Assembly agreed in 2006 that a 70% phase out is $950 million, then simple math says that $1.3 billion is the entire cost of the phase out….

That’s pretty blatant, like the $6 billion dollar deficit lie, that the AP finally came off of just yesterday… after atleast twice running with the Warner #’s from their press release. Will the MSM report that now the car tax cut cost $2billion, and repeat it, only to later say?

It just goes to show we are not debating the facts, but the facts as the Warner camp want’s to put them out….

By: Brian Kirwin

Brian Kirwin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:59:44 +0000

“Jim Gilmore just won’t take yes for an answer”

Maybe he knows better than to believe an answer Mark Warner gives in a debate.