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WHEREAS the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has doubled residential real estate taxes in seven years, an average annual increase of ten percent; and

WHEREAS, due to a prosperous economy and the 2004 tax hike, Virginia state revenues have substantially increased; and

WHEREAS the proposed Virginia 2007-2008 biennial budget increases higher education spending by 20 percent, ($600M), K-12 spending by 20 percent ($1B), and healthcare spending (Medicaid) by 18 percent ($1B); and

WHEREAS a front-page Washington Post article (Medicaid Cutbacks Divide Democrats, Nov. 28, 2005) reported that affluent families qualify for Medicaid long-term care by hiding their assets; and

WHEREAS for 25 years, combined state, local, and federal inflation-adjusted public-school spending in Virginia has been increasing ten times faster than enrollment, and public-school staff over the same period has been increasing seven times faster than enrollment; and

WHEREAS transportation has been underfunded for decades,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Governor and General Assembly of Virginia fund transportation not from more tax increases but by reducing the increases in public education and Medicaid spending.

Updated June 18, 2006