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in Northern Virginia, state and local retirees’ benefits would be more likely exceed the threshold. Of the four-out-of-five retirees who benefit from the plan, “Northern Virginia gets absolutely none of that,” said Del. Wood, who represents Fairfax County.“That one out of five lives in my district.”
Del. Kenneth Plum, D-36th District, agreed. His district is Reston, an area high in government workers and retirees. “The 20 percent of retirees that [the benefit] doesn’t effect are in Northern Virginia. That’s disproportionately hard on Northern Virginia.”
Sen. Miller said Baliles’ plan to remove existing benefits will hurt a lot of elderly people who are not receiving any retirement benefits.
“The governor’s proposal is going to be clumsy and somewhat hard to administer,” commented Sen. Robert L. Calhoun, R-30th District. The governor is oversimplifying the issue, said Calhoun, by assuming that pension income does not change over time.
Many legislators said Baliles’ plan would be much more appealing if the word “threshold” were substituted for “exemption.”
The net cost of Baliles’ proposal is $45.7 million. Baliles argued against an exemption, saying that such a solution would be far more costly. An exemption of $10,000 for
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