Do you want taxes raised?

I'm guessing there are lots of liberals in Virginia who want higher taxes (or at least, who are liberal Democrats). Strangely, when they have a chance to not be hypocrites and pay more voluntarily, they don't:

RICHMOND — State lawmakers can rule out Virginian's offering up more of their hard-earned money to fix the $1.4 billion budget shortfall Gov. Tim Kaine announced this week.

At least that is what a peek at the so-called "Tax Me More Fund" suggests.

Since its inception in 2002, the fund has collected a total of $10,217.04.

As a state lawmaker says:

"It's amazing how people want to tax other people for every idea they have, and they are not willing to step up to the plate themselves, said Delegate M. Kirkland Cox, Colonial Heights Republican and a sponsor of the legislation that created the Virginia fund. "It's a real good way to make a point."

The whole article is so fantastic that I recommend reading the whole thing.