My open letter to Gov. Warner regarding the discriminatory tax increase on the users of the Dulles Toll Road. For more on this matter, please read my earlier column: “Railroaded Again“.
Dear Gov. Warner:
For a governor who campaigned on not raising our taxes, you surely have gone out of your way to get into our wallets. Now you’re supporting this discriminatory tax against the users of the Dulles Toll Road, who will never benefit from the rail to Dulles boondoggle, yet they are being asked to pay for its construction. What can we expect next from the Warner Administration, special discriminatory taxes by gender or race? Or better yet, why not set up toll booths along the Washington Beltway and collect taxes to end world hunger?
Your financing scheme for getting rail to Dulles by taxing the users of the Toll Road is nothing short of highway robbery, reminiscent of the times of Robin Hood. But at least Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor. You’re stealing from a few select, hard-working Virginian’s and giving it to the special interests that stand to make millions from this boondoggle—a boondoggle that will do nothing to alleviate the traffic congestion in the Dulles corridor.
You have the power to delay or stop this injustice. Please act now.
