Compromise — the thing that’s eluding Virginia with the budget impasse — often takes face-saving for each side, but so far it looks elusive.
The impasse, on its face, is over a longstanding, $1.9 billion a year tax exemption for data centers that Senate Finance Chair Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, wants to do away with, a move that budget writers in the House of Delegates have rejected and that her fellow Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger says will undermine the state’s business climate.
But it’s really about power and the direction of the Democratic Party, political scientists say.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
