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Lets think about this... The state has 90 days to pick up inmates from city jails who have been sentenced to 12 months or more in state prison. The state is intentionally leaving their inmates in the city jails and giving the cities $14.00 a day per inmate, when it costs $75.00 a day for the city to take care of them. This is causing overcrowding which causes danger to the Correctional Officers and other staff. Not to mention is draining the city tax payers. BUT at the same time, the State is contracting inmates from other states to rent space in Virginia prisons, for a fee of course...

Governor Kaine,

Please consider offering early retirement options to State employees who are perhaps 18 months out from being eligible for retirement under current State laws.  Many municipals have elected this option to realize significant savings.

I don't think the DMV should issue tags for a vehicle UNLESS they are positive that the driver has insurance on that car.  When a used car is purchased - the dealer has no way of making sure the vehicle is insured when they issue 30 day tags - except for the dealer insurance.  THat means people can be driving around with no insurance making them a safety hazard to the other drivers.  Then - the purchaser can go to dmv and request permanent plates for the vehicle and again there is no way to ensure the vehicle is insured.  Proof of insurance should be required before any

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Big solution for the state:

Get Rid of State Income Tax

Go to Sales Tax only for revenue, increase to 8-9%, put cap on it so state government cant get too greedy in the future, which we all know will happen.

All the money that normally goes to the state for income tax, most people will spend it which will boost state economy.

Business owners will relocate here to avoid tax in their state, with their relocation they will birng jobs.

Outsource and close all of the Virginia ABC stores.

Allow all grocery stores that sell beer and wine to sell what is now sold in the ABC stores.

This will save in the following areas:

rent

utilities

salaries

benefits

inventory and warehousing

transportation / packaging / distribution

administration and overhead

Look to California for how this has been wildly successful with decreased costs and increased revenues.

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Suggestion:  Introduce a bill requiring motorists who are stopped for using cell phones (not the hands-free phones) to surrender their phones until they pay the ticket.  Also, you could require them to either appear in court to retrieve the phone or add an additional charge to mail the phone back to them.

Stop the cutting of grass along highways while we are having a budget problem.