Commonwealth Institute, December 2019. The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis encouraged Virginia state lawmakers to increase fairness in the state tax code and offset the regressive tax proposals in Governor Ralph Northam’s (D) 2020-2022 budget by improving the state-level EITC. https://bluevirginia.us/2019/12/commonwealth-institute-proposed-tax-increases-would-be-regressive-and-only-partially-offset