Tim Kaine scored a home run in his first policy address to the General Assembly last week. The issue: adequate public facilities legislation to help solve congestion on the state's roads. ...Yes, quality of life is important, and Tim Kaine's proposal could do Fauquier a lot of good. No silver bullet to end all quality-of-life problems, but a step in the right direction.
Stewart Schwartz, executive director of the D.C.-based Coalition for Smarter Growth, reported in The Washington Post that Kaine "ran on this issue and won on this issue, particularly in the outer suburbs of Loudoun and Prince William." Sounds like the voters have spoken.
How many times do we have to say that, especially in Government, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
This "but we've got a surplus" stuff is ridiculous.
Let's say you are living paycheck to paycheck. Then you get a one-time $10,000 insurance settlement from a car wreck. You can't suddenly decide you're going to move into a bigger house at twice the rent. It doesn't work that way. You'll burn through your one-time cash and living outside your means, soon enough you'll go bankrupt.
If you want a bigger house, you've got to earn more.
If we want to clean up this transportation mess, we've got to fund it.
No matter what the Bush Era wants you to believe, you can't run your household off of Credit Cards.
Don't any of you people balance your checkbooks?