Tell your legislators to vote NO on Virginia HB 2313 Tax Hike Bill

Virginia has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

The 109-page conference report on HB 2313 wasn't released to legislators until last evening and we are told it's even worse than we originally thought.

  

Delegate Ben Cline called it a "Frankenstein Monster" of a bill.  

HB2313 raises the state sales tax, regional sales tax, vehicle and tangible personal property taxes, vending machine tax, heavy equipment tax, recordation tax on commercial, industrial and residential real property sales, hotel tax, hybrid vehicle tax, and diesel fuel tax.

They call this a transportation bill but not all of the raised revenues will go to roads. Much of it will go to Metro and some to the General Fund.

To make matters worse, the NEW Regional Transportation Funding Authorities, an unelected governing board, in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads will decide how the transportation funding is spent. If they get it wrong, they are not vulnerable to the electorate.

The vote on HB 2313 will be today, despite the fact that few will have been able to read the Conference Report.

Please contact your legislators and tell them to vote "no" to the HB2313 conference report.

Tell them an increase in taxes will further weaken the economy.

Tell them they need to cut spending, not raise taxes.

Please contact your legislators without delay and demand that they vote "NO" to the HB2313 conference report.

Yours in liberty,

Donna Holt

Executive Director

Virginia Campaign for Liberty

Contact these Virginia Delegates to pass the "Virginia's Right to Farm Act"

Dear Defender of Property Rights.

 

Here is an opportunity to promote the cause of property rights and of  farmers - a cause that would benefit us all.

 

For information see the following from Campaign for Liberty (here). Then send an email to these delegates.

Just copy and paste the whole list in your bcc window,  name a subject and add a short message asking them to vote for the Boneta bill, HB 1430.

Not even five minutes of your time is all it would take - but the results could be enormous.

 

 

DelTWright@house.virginia.gov, DelBSherwood@house.virginia.gov, DelLWare@house.virginia.gov, DelEScott@house.virginia.gov, DelBOrrock@house.virginia.gov, DelDMarshall@house.virginia.gov, DelJEdmunds@house.virginia.gov, DelCPoindexter@house.virginia.gov, DelBPogge@house.virginia.gov, DelBKnight@house.virginia.gov, deltwilt@house.virginia.gov, DelJMorefield@house.virginia.gov, DelMWebert@house.virginia.gov, DelMRansone@house.virginia.gov, DelMFariss@house.virginia.gov, DelKPlum@house.virginia.gov, DelLLewis@house.virginia.gov, DelDBulova@house.virginia.gov, DelMJames@house.virginia.gov, DelMSickles@house.virginia.gov, DelLTorian@house.virginia.gov, DelMKeam@house.virginia.gov

Thank you so much.

Sue Long

Help Pass "Virginia's Right to Farm Act" from Virginia Campaign for Liberty

Dear Patriots,

In November,75% of Virginians voted to amend the Virginia Constitution to put a stop to the abusive use of eminent domain by local governments. 

Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to stop their assaults on property rights.

The right to farm and engage in commerce is once again under attack and requires swift action for the passage of HB1430 to strengthen Virginia's Right to Farm Act.

In August of 2012, a  "pitchfork protest"received national attention after Virginia farmer, Martha Boneta, was cited by Fauquier County for daring to host a birthday party for a 10-year old family friend on her farm.

County government officials informed Martha that local ordinances required a permit to be obtained prior to hosting such an event and that she would be fined $5,000 for doing so.

Martha was also charged with two additional violations with fines up to $5,000 each - one for advertising a pumpkin carving and another for operating a small shop on her property that Martha used to sell her fresh produce and handmade crafts.

It's bad enough that Fauquier County prohibits a farmer from selling their produce and the by-products of the things they grow, even with a state issued business license.

But when you can't even host a birthday party without permission from government, the time to act is long overdue.

HB1430, dubbed the "Boneta Bill", would stop Fauquier County's assault  and protect all Virginia farmers against future encroachments by any local government. 

But if we are to be successful in its passage, we must act fast!

The "Boneta Bill" has been referred to the House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee and could be heard as soon as Wednesday, January 16th.

Please contact members of the committee today and urge them to vote "yes" to sendHB1430 to the House floor.

Committee Members:

Delegate Beverly J. Sherwood (Chairman)  

Delegate R. Lee Ware, Jr.

Delegate Thomas C. Wright, Jr. 

Delegate Edward T. Scott

Delegate Robert D. Orrock, Sr.

Delegate Daniel W. Marshall, III

Delegate Charles D. Poindexter

Delegate Brenda L. Pogge

Delegate Barry D. Knight

Delegate James E. Edmunds, II

Delegate Tony O. Wilt

Delegate James W. Morefield 

Delegate Michael J. Webert

Delegate Margaret B. Ransone 

Delegate C. Matthew Fariss

Delegate Kenneth R. Plum

Delegate Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr.

Delegate David L. Bulova

Delegate Matthew James

Delegate Mark D. Sickles

Delegate Luke E. Torian

Delegate Mark L. Keam   

For an email blast to all above: DelTWright@house.virginia.gov, DelBSherwood@house.virginia.gov, DelLWare@house.virginia.gov, DelEScott@house.virginia.gov, DelBOrrock@house.virginia.gov, DelDMarshall@house.virginia.gov, DelJEdmunds@house.virginia.gov, DelCPoindexter@house.virginia.gov, DelBPogge@house.virginia.gov, DelBKnight@house.virginia.gov, deltwilt@house.virginia.gov, DelJMorefield@house.virginia.gov, DelMWebert@house.virginia.gov, DelMRansone@house.virginia.gov, DelMFariss@house.virginia.gov, DelKPlum@house.virginia.gov, DelLLewis@house.virginia.gov, DelDBulova@house.virginia.gov, DelMJames@house.virginia.gov, DelMSickles@house.virginia.gov, DelLTorian@house.virginia.gov, DelMKeam@house.virginia.gov
 

In the three years we have fought to defend property rights in Virginia, not one local elected official or local planner has been able to name a single activity on one's own land that does not require permission from local government.

We must act now if we are to preserve our inherent right to private property!

Please contact members of the House Committee on Agriculture, and Chesapeake and Natural Resources to end this assault on property rights today!

Tell the members of the committee to stop this assault on property rights NOW!   

Tell them to protect your inherent right to own and control the use of your land against abusive land use restrictions imposed by local government.

Tell them to cast a "yes" vote to sendHB1430 to the House floor immediately. 

The 5th Amendment says "No person shall be...deprived of life, liberty, or property,  without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."  

When we lose the right to own and control property, we become property.  

Please act now without delay! 

Yours in liberty,

Donna Holt

Executive Director

Virginia Campaign for Liberty

P.S. You must act now if you are to preserve the inherent right to private property!  

Contact the members of the House Agriculture, and Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee and tell them to vote in favor of HB1430 today!

Please consider making a small contribution to keep us in this fight for the property rights of all Virginians.

Why I'm voting for Floyd Bayne

The argument about 3rd party candidates "spoiling" elections comes up a lot. Especially when Republican candidates have such a poor record of supporting conservative principles. The argument is that the 3rd party candidate can draw off enough votes for the Democrat in the race to win the election, and the Democrat doesn't even claim to support conservative principles.

The fact is, when we want our representatives in Washington to support our interests, we must have a way to "guide" them to do that. And unfortunately, the only real tool we have is our vote. Our calls and letters don't really seem to work - representatives (and Eric Cantor is especially guilty of this) avoid even taking a position if the can, and when they do, it rarely has any relationship to the views their constituents have expressed.

The answer is to use our vote effectively, and the way to do that is to cause pain for representatives that have strayed from voting the right way. There is very little debate that Eric Cantor has failed to be a conservative representative. How may calls, emails, and letters did he receive from us asking him not to support TARP? Yet he not only supported it, he accused members of his own party that voted against in the first round as childishly using their vote to express distaste with Pelosi's speech - as if none of them could have had a problem with the bill itself. And he did that on national television. If you're not aware of all the liberal and statist positions Eric Cantor has taken recently, please do a little research, or ask me and I will give you a run-down.

So how do we cause the required pain to steer our representatives back on course? We vote against him. And we do that even though it risks the possibility of a Democrat taking that seat (because a freshman Democrat in office for 2 years from a Republican district simply can't cause much damage). Our representative must then spend time fundraising (pain), campaigning (will Cantor come out AT ALL in this effort?), and fear for his previously secure seat. He may have to take time away from his book tour and think about promoting his constituents interests instead of his own.

Without the ability to cause our representative some heartache, he will continue to vote the wrong way, and he will do it now with gusto and impunity with the realization that he can ignore his constituents - because they will vote for him even when he is voting against their interests.

-- Harry Holt
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Watch this video, then do something to help stop the bastards from hijacking our internet. The last bastion of free speech.

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