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Winsome Earle-Sears: “We have run budget surpluses every year that we've been in…”

Featuring: Winsome Earle-Sears, Republican | Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

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Virginia Gubernatorial Debate

Published | Video Starts at 32:06

How would you come up with just over $3 billion a year for the car tax? I'll give you 15 seconds to clarify. Yes, so as I said, we have the money. We have run budget surpluses every year that we've been in office, over $10 billion, $9 billion of which we've given back to the Virginia taxpayer. That's serious money, and the taxpayers want that. And when I am governor, I'm going to have a form that says check here if you want to pay more in taxes. (32:06–32:17)

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Asserts that Virginia has had budget surpluses over $10 billion, with $9 billion returned to taxpayers.

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