With such stalwarts of economic liberty out of power and an era of grand expectations opening, the Virginia General Assembly, in a nod to the new growth-minded business class and residents of the growing cities and suburbs, repealed the “pay as you go” requirements in the state constitution, which had put the Virginia of their day fiftieth in the nation in capital spending for health and welfare. Borrowing money to invest in public schooling and infrastructure in a way that would have been unimaginable with Byrd still in power, they turned Northern Virginia, especially, into a cornucopia of
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