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of many Northern Virginians, Waller said that unclogging the roads should be a high priority.
Warner agreed. “Transportation actually has to be the top issue,” he said. “There was a step taken this year, but there’s a lot more to be done.” He identified the 50 percent decline nationwide in infrastructure spending over the past 30 years as the culprit. “We see that in our roads, we see it in our rail systems, we see it in our water and sewer systems. We fall 15th in the world in broadband deployment. We need to have a strong federal partner.”
As governor, Warner worked to reform the tax code by lowering food and some income taxes, ' and increasing the sales and cigarette taxes. The tax package raised $1.5 billion annually, which Warner credited with saving the state’s cherished AAA bond rating The new revenues also helped to close a multi billion-dollar budget deficit and
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