It also raises the sales tax on vehicles from 3 1/2% to 5% and plans on raising the gas tax 9 cents over the next 3 years.

Unfortunately most of the funds would go to the DC area and to the Richmond area. Those of us in Southwest VA. will still be dealing with the same old roads, and their poor state of repair.

Maybe that’s why crime in Fairfax County, Virginia is much lower than crime in demographically-similar Montgomery County, Maryland, even though crime levels were the same between the two counties in 1978.

Albo has sound reasons for seeking to toughen criminal penalties.

Unlike many of his lawyer colleagues, who do exactly what their mercenary self-interest would dictate (i.e., divorce lawyers in the state senate rigging divorce laws to encourage more divorce and dependence on lawyers by litigants), Albo’s actions are logically defensible and don’t always advance his self-interest.

Ask, which law or appellate decision is more likely to increase lawyer employment, you can predict the majority of them.

The lawyer favored economic Coase Theorem somehow won a Nobel Prize. It has been relentless, explosively, catastrophically, and repeatedly rebutted by real world cases.

The rent seeking theory has nearly no exceptions. The opposite of rent seeking is profit seeking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking

Go to the links at the bottom for more substantive reviews of the theory.