Howell: No tax increases

YES!!! Finally this is getting the spotlight it deserves! Speaker Bill Howell is throwing down the gauntlet in Richmond on so-called tax reform that will propose new taxes on services and internet sales in Virginia:

Raising some taxes and lowering others to offset it may not fly in Howell’s House. Those whose taxes are raised will be angered, he said, and the commission–and the legislature–cannot operate in a vacuum.

“This isn’t politics. We are elected to represent people. We’re not elected to go down and say ‘I don’t care what the people think, this is what I’m going to do,'” Howell said. “It’s incumbent on elected officials to try and echo the concerns of their people. I think people would reject the proposal of having to pay a sales tax when they go get a haircut.”

Keep your eye on this one folks.