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want to solve an ongoing problem with a one-time windfall, which will strain the general fund that pays for mainstay programs like education and public safety.
“I can’t support taking money from education and other key needs when it dries up,” Ebbin said.
Other Northern Virginia delegates called the House plan a bandage that won’t stick.
“Whatever we do, a bandaid just isn’t going to hack it,” Delegate Vivian Watts, DAnnandale, said. Ongoing road troubles threaten the flow of prosperity and taxes from the Washington D.C. suburbs to the rest of the state, she said.
Speaker of the House William “BUI” Howell, R-Stafford, said the House Republicans wanted to keep working towards a solution, but the Senate is “holding us all hostage to the budget.”
Delegate Leo Ward, RVirginia Beach, said there is less support for raising taxes than in 2004. He worried that every other session would end in a tax standoff.
Howell said they wou'd stand united against taxes, unlike in 2004 when 29 Republican delegates voted in support of then-Gov. Mark Warner’s tax increases.
Some senators opposed the taxes as well. Sen. Ryan McDougle, R-Mechanicsville, said his constituents didn’t want any tax increases. He’d heard the most feedback about the proposed gas tax increase.
Sen. Mark Obenshain, RHarrisonburg, also broke with the Senate majority on taxes. Budgeting is a simple task that has gotten out of hand, he said.
“If you can’t get a tax
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