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iransporauon committee c nairman Sen. Charles Waddell (D-Loudoun) wanted to know if the proposed 4-percent titling tax would apply equally to new and used car buyers.
He said he was worried about a possible “discriminating aspect” to the titling proposal.
Secretary of of Transportation and Public Safety Vivian E. Watts said it would apply equally, but with a trade-in the new car buyer would be taxed only on the difference in value between the two vehicles.
Sen. J. Granger Macfarlane (DRoanoke) doubted the commission’s population projections and funding statistics. After making a series of involved calculations, the senator told Secretary Watts that her numbers didn’t “jibe ... I guess my question is why are my figures so far from yours?”
Based on his calculations, Northern Virginia would get 47 percent of the money with only 21 percent of the state population.
“No,” Secretary Watts said in trying to interpret the numbers for the increasingly agitated senator.
Sen. Macfarlane interrupted: “We respectfully disagree. Let’s call a spade a spade.”
Secretary Watts calmly explained that Sen. Macfarlane had confused allocation dollars with the amount of money that would be needed to cover critical road construction projects, which far exceed currently available funds.
“I respectfully disagree,” he repeated.
Sen. Johnny S. Joannou (DPortsmouth) wanted to know how much the federal government would contribute to the $10.2 billion transportation program.
The secretary estimated the federal government would contribute $3.9 billion. According to the formula, the state would have to promise to match 10 percent of the total federal contribution, or $400 million.
In answer to a another question, Secretary Watts told Sen. Joannou that Virginia Department of High
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