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Governor Kaine,
My name is Dan Lyons, and I’m a resident of the fine city of Hampton. I am aware, Governor, of your plans to raise taxes to help fund our roads. While I understand that the elite have little concern for the day to day cost of living that us plebians think about every day, I must object to your raising of taxes to fund anything at this point. Taxes are high enough, Sir.
I believe that you would do well to, instead of finding taxes to raise, you find something in Virginia’s already massive budget to cut back on. The first thing I would focus on, as a perfect example of completely unnecessary spending, is the amount of funding spent on advertising the Lottery.
I find it a farce that my tax dollars go to pay for photo-shopped pictures of ping pong balls with faces on them on the side of buses. I’m a designer myself, and those banners are eyesores. IF you’re going to waste my tax dollars, please do it tastefully. Nor do I see the point of hearing radio ads for the lottery. Addiction sells itself. Either it’s all good, or none of it’s good. After all, to quote Bastiat, “See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime, Then abolish that law without delay, for it is a fertile ground from which further evils may spring.”
If you want more income, governor, then find a way for the state to earn it. Perhaps legalizing gambling of all sorts in an effort to raise more money might be a credible option, instead of considering those who would operate private gambling operations as racketeers.
Perhaps there are some unnecessary public administrators in our monolithic government that would be better off in the private sector. There are a few state agencies that could benefit from fewer employees. You could, as governor, pardon a few thousand non-violent drug offenders and save the prison system a few million a year. Perhaps you should tell some of the folks at the Virginia Department of Taxation that they have until friday to pack their belongings and clear their offices out. I would remind you, sir, that it’s government 101 that in any socioeconomic system – from ancient Babylon to Main Street, USA – that you subsidize what you want to grow and tax what you want to punish. Is it your wish, Sir, to punish the citizens of this state, as if they have not suffered enough from rampant inflation, a weak dollar, cut throat gas prices, and policies that forbid us from expanding domestic energy production – whether it be building refineries, drilling or building nuclear plants? Have we not suffered enough at the hands of the paper terrorists at the Internal Revenue System? The proper function of government is limited indeed, only to provide a common defense, to operate courts, and to protect the citizenry from force and fraud. It is not a proper function of government to beset upon us force and fraud, with the invincible fist of bureaucracy.
Sir, I would remind you that We, the citizenry, are not means to an end. We are, each and every one of us, an end to ourselves, and you work for us. Sir, Reason’s course would be to find ways to shrink the size and scope of Virgina’s government and expand voluntary revenue. I know that you are well compensated as governor. I would appreciate it if you would leave my paycheck alone. I close by quoting Bastiat again. “Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.”
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