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By DEL. JAY KATZEN
R-31st District
The Democrat majority of the General Assembly blocked the return of lottery revenues to our localities, ensuring that all Virginians lost the lottery last week.
The opportunity to bring new money to communities and provide an actual increase in funds for education, law enforcement, and tax relief was defeated on nearly a party line vote.
This vote represents two distinct philosophies of government. 1 and other supporters of this measure want to shift government away from the bureaucrats in Richmond toward more local control of resources. We believe that parents, teachers, and local officials can decide best howlocal needs are to be met. Opponents of the lottery measure felt strongly that most decision making powers should be centralized in Richmond and that local communities are not capable to making their own decisions on their needs and priorities. They don’t trust the people. I do.
The Democrats passed a bill in the regular Session (patroned by Delegate Van Landingham) in which they deceptively applied the “lottery” label to existing general fund support for education. However, this bill provided no new funding for education. An equally phony argument was
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