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Yds, we have bills to pay"— to support the non-parole legislation overwhelmingly approved by both parties last year; for education, to settle with federal retirees unjustly taxed by previous administrations; and for programs necessary for our wellbeing, among them to assist Virginians unable (not unwilling, but unable ) to assist themselves.
1 kno w of your concern over several of the programs scheduled for cuts. That is w hy many of us are seeking restoration of funding for, among other programs, rural Extension and research. And that is why the Republican caucus agreed Jan. 1 1 that, “To avoid pressures for substitute taxation at the local level after the proposed repeal of the gross receipts tax...(we) support a permanent statutory program of state financial assistance to localities to replace the eliminated BPOL tax revenue."
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