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ing up the cost of school, transportation and environmental protection efforts.

“Neither party wants the burden of being the one that causes a bond rate slide,” McCarthy said.

Chichester doubts that the economic recovery will be the same as ones a decade ago bringing a “proliferation of high technology jobs in the service sector that jet-propelled us out of recession. Today, the only lightning speed I see is that with which service jobs are leaving this country.”

Chichester argues that productivity, the goddess of the 1990s, now means fewer jobs and that the baby boomers are now at the doorstep of retirement.

The hard rock tax cutters dominate the House of Delegates and they delivered a $58.3 billion budget proposal with no broad-based tax increases. As recently as last month, House Speaker William J. Howell, R.-Stafford repeated the no compromise rhetoric of the House.

But on Friday, in a coffee meeting with reporters, Howell said the House would be happy to join with Gov. Warner a phase out of the tax breaks for those over 65 years

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