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Article: GETTING RID OF THE VIRGINIA PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX ON CARS.(PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 17, 1997
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Byline: LIZ SZABO, STAFF WRITER
Crime, drugs, education and taxes they're issues that dominate the political debates. But they're also issues that affect the lives of people in in Hampton Roads.
To Emile Vautrinot, a truck driver at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard - Portsmouth, the best way to improve Virginia's economy would be to eliminate the personal property tax and replace it with a gradual increase in the state sales tax.
Vautrinot has grown children and one 16-year-old granddaughter.
``Governor Allen kind of had a neat idea, and everybody else stonewalled it. He wanted to get rid of the personal property tax and raise the sales tax ...