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To the editor:
Many of your readers will remember that for five years I have been telling the people of Virginia that the needs of this Commonwealth were growing at a pace that the traditional method and level of taxation was not capable of meeting. Five times I have suggested a state lottery as a w ay to head off a state revenue crisis.
Now the Governor tells us that there is no w7ay that Virginia can solve its highway and transportation problems without a rapid increase in the sales tax on automobiles (from 2 percent to 4 percent), the state’s gasoline tax (4 cents more per gallon), and also a one percent increase in the state sales tax (from 4 percent to 5 percent).
I ask your readers this question: Given a choice, would you rather meet our highway and transportation needs with those direct tax increases, or meet most of the new revenue requirements through a state lottery?
Many say they oppose a lottery because they think that Virginia has never had one and can continue to get along without it. But we have
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