They said she was a moderate. That was the line. Every headline. Every interview. Every glowing profile.
Abigail Spanberger was sold to voters in Virginia as a centrist Democrat. Pro-business. Reasonable. Not one of those crazy lefties.
Sound familiar?
Now she’s barely warmed the governor’s chair in Virginia, and the mask is already off.
Welcome to the Democrat bait-and-switch.
Just days after taking office, Abigail Spanberger and her allies in Richmond rolled out a shopping cart full of tax hikes.
Not tweaks. Not trims. Big, ugly, wallet-draining tax increases.
Our friends at Americans for Tax Reform have been tracking the damage. Here’s what Virginia voters got for believing the “moderate” label.
A new income tax bracket that jacks the top rate from 5.75 percent to 10 percent for high earners.
A new tax on investment income. Trusts. Estates. Retirement savings. The stuff people work a lifetime to build.
A brand-new sales tax on internet services. Amazon. Uber Eats. FedEx. UPS. Things regular people use every day.
An 11 percent tax on guns and ammunition. Not for safety. For punishment.
Expanded sales taxes on services like dry cleaning and landscaping. Because apparently nothing should escape government reach.
And that’s just the warm-up in her first week!
Spanberger also announced Virginia will rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI.
That’s a fancy name for a backdoor energy tax that drives up utility bills. Families pay more. Businesses pay more. Government gets more.
Notice the pattern?
During the campaign, she talked about balance. After the election, she went full progressive.
That’s not an accident. That’s the plan.
Democrats know their agenda doesn’t sell in plain sight. So they slap on softer labels. Moderate. Pragmatic. Common sense.
Then they govern like Bernie Sanders once the votes are counted.
Now let’s bring this home to Nevada.
Attorney General Aaron Ford is already positioning himself the same way. Reasonable Democrat. Middle-of-the-road. Safe choice.
Don’t buy it. Ford’s record tells you everything you need to know.
He’s backed higher taxes. He’s sided with progressive activists. He’s used his office to push partisan politics instead of sticking to the law.
And when the far left demands compliance, he rarely says no.
If elected governor, he won’t suddenly turn conservative. He won’t protect taxpayers. He won’t slow government growth.
He’ll do exactly what Spanberger is doing now. Campaign one way. Govern another. And Nevada can’t afford it.
We’re a state built on small businesses, tourism, energy production, and personal freedom.
Higher taxes don’t just hurt rich people here. They hit casino workers. Contractors. Retirees. Rural families already stretched thin.
Every dollar the government takes is a dollar not spent on groceries, rent, or gas.
Gov. Joe Lombardo gets it. Aaron Ford doesn’t.
This isn’t about party labels. It’s about patterns.
When Democrats promise moderation on the trail, history says believe the record, not the rhetoric.
Virginia learned the hard way. Nevada doesn’t have to.
The real question is simple: Do we want a governor who tells voters what they want to hear, or one who’ll actually leave them alone?
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