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amples of tax and local planning votes, but mainly she wants to talk to the voters and let them define the issues.
She promised if elected to hold regular office hours and hold town meetings in each locality in the district.
She said that the budget and funding for education will continue as major problems for the state, but that it is not possible to predict all the situations the General Assembly will face.
“No one could have predicted this budget shortfall four years ago,” she said.
“I’m for holding the line on taxes,” she said. “People are having a hard time day to day. We don’t w'ant to make it more difficult for Virginians.”
She said ways would have to be found to make educational funding more fair for people in rural counties. “There will be some sort of good solution,” she said. “Raising taxes is not the only way to come up with more money for education.”
Ms. Haynes said she did not believe the General Assembly should ask the localities to pick up more of the cost of the constitutional officers.
“It would be difficult for the localities to plunk something else in their laps they would have to pay for,” she said.
She said she would want to learn how the voters feel before taking a stand on local income taxes. “Taxes are certainly an issue," she said.
“Everybody is feeling the crunch. We need to sit down and get past partisan politics. If we’re going to continue to provide the services, we have to decide how we can afford it,” she added.
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