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Democrats
Kept
Taxes Low
To the Editor:
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Twelve years of Democratic administrations in Virignia have steered us safely through very hard times nationally. Financial World magazine has rated Virginia first among the 50 states for financial management for the last two years in a row. For the last year, City and State magazine agrees. Virginia is one of only five states whose bonds are rated AAA by both independent national bond-rating agencies.
The Virginia Republican Party, traditionally sound and conservative, has come under the control of the most radical movement in the history of the Commonwealth. Their candidates propose wild changes in the way Virginia does things. George Allen, the Republican candidate for governor, would spend extra hundreds of millions of dollars on the Prison system by abolishing parole.
With their usual disregard for the truth, these new Republicans have attacked “the tax raises of ‘Governors’ Bilies and Wilder.” Actually, State services have been preserved, and in many cases improved, with almost no tax increases. The
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