Not even the longest-serving state legislator in Virginia history — the chairman of the powerful House panel that writes the budget that funds state government — can keep a proposed tax increase alive.
Appropriations Committee chairman Lacey Putney, a conservative independent from Bedford who organizes with the House’s Republican majority, saw his proposal to boost the state retail sales and use tax by a penny go down in flames Wednesday.
The bill was tabled by a Finance subcommittee on a voice vote.
