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Rural interests
ANOTHER SESSION of the Virginia General Assembly has come and gone, and citizens of the Commonwealth are to be excused if they are left in a state of confusion after contemplating the benefits, if any, accomplished during that session.
We aren’t going to get any higher direct state taxes, and for that we can be thankful, but what positive results can we be thankful for? Not a whole lot, we’re afraid.
As a commentator at the last meeting of the Board of Supervisors noted, it seems that every additional session of the General Assembly, every new meeting of a state or regional governing or advisory body, only points up one glaring trend—the tendency for more and more power to be concentrated with centralized, urban interests, at the expense of rural areas and the people who live in rural areas.
When it was first decreed, the “one man, one vote” doctrine established by the Supreme Court seemed to be a Good Thing. People are the ones who must be represented by government, it was loudly acclaimed, not trees. So counties and districts and states were re-districted and rearranged, all in the interest of “one man, one vote,” and everybody congratulated themselves on the infinite wisdom of the exercise. t
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