Marc Elrich…….told you so.

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Anonymous wrote:And thanks to taxes we have better services than many other places.

Suits me.

Are the services in MoCo actually any better than Fairfax? The school systems seem pretty similar. No apparent differences in police or fire or roads. They actually have a better county park system with lots of youth fields, much better than ours. What are we getting for all these extra taxes?

Fairfax has money because they have actual job growth there.

MoCo thinks it can build wealth by providing services to poor people but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. We have no job growth and poor people living in slums.

DP.. there is no job growth, yet, I see a lot of $850K+ townhomes being built left and right around here. Are poor people renting these expensive TH?

they are living here but not working here.

Yes, most people who I know live in MoCo but work elsewhere. Namely DC, NoVa or other parts of Maryland like Howard County or Baltimore County and City.

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Anonymous wrote:And thanks to taxes we have better services than many other places.

Suits me.

Are the services in MoCo actually any better than Fairfax? The school systems seem pretty similar. No apparent differences in police or fire or roads. They actually have a better county park system with lots of youth fields, much better than ours. What are we getting for all these extra taxes?

Fairfax has money because they have actual job growth there.

MoCo thinks it can build wealth by providing services to poor people but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. We have no job growth and poor people living in slums.

DP.. there is no job growth, yet, I see a lot of $850K+ townhomes being built left and right around here. Are poor people renting these expensive TH?

they are living here but not working here.

Yes, most people who I know live in MoCo but work elsewhere. Namely DC, NoVa or other parts of Maryland like Howard County or Baltimore County and City.

A MoCo report came out that showed most residents work in MoCo, however, that could be skewed towards lower paid jobs, and/or now WFH/hybrid means people don't have to commute into Dc/VA.

Even so, even with "no job growth" here, these expensive homes seem to be selling well, and like I said, there are so many of these new build popping up here.

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Anonymous wrote:And thanks to taxes we have better services than many other places.

Suits me.

Are the services in MoCo actually any better than Fairfax? The school systems seem pretty similar. No apparent differences in police or fire or roads. They actually have a better county park system with lots of youth fields, much better than ours. What are we getting for all these extra taxes?

Fairfax has money because they have actual job growth there.

MoCo thinks it can build wealth by providing services to poor people but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. We have no job growth and poor people living in slums.

DP.. there is no job growth, yet, I see a lot of $850K+ townhomes being built left and right around here. Are poor people renting these expensive TH?

they are living here but not working here.

Yes, most people who I know live in MoCo but work elsewhere. Namely DC, NoVa or other parts of Maryland like Howard County or Baltimore County and City.

A MoCo report came out that showed most residents work in MoCo, however, that could be skewed towards lower paid jobs, and/or now WFH/hybrid means people don't have to commute into Dc/VA.

Even so, even with "no job growth" here, these expensive homes seem to be selling well, and like I said, there are so many of these new build popping up here.

I think your hypothesis for that data being the way it is spot on: Lots of low-income jobs in MoCo + WFH/Hybrid reducing commuting pressure into DC/VA. That's certainly been the case for me.

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Anonymous wrote:In case the point isn't clear enough to you, the math and the politics for funding schools doesn't work if we keep adding an outsized share of low-income kids.

Concentrated poverty is terrible for schools. We have numerous elementary schools with 70-80% FARMS rates. To nobody's surprise, the higher income people in those neighborhoods tend to choose private. While some of that I'm sure has to do with racism, it's also a rational choice given what we know about the impacts of concentrated poverty on education.

This is not sustainable, and I don't know how folks don't see this.

It’s racist to not want your kids to be left behind due to large populations of poor kids from other countries? Publics in liberal counties want to eliminate parent rights for just this reason.

You really needed to get your xenophobic rant on somehow didn't you?

Says the person who doesn’t want to live with THEM

I don't know wtf you are talking about, I live about 200 yards away from a subsidized apartment building

Move in the building. Then we can talk

About what? Your disgust for poor people that you are projecting onto me?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the PP is on to something and this is why the Democratic Central Committee in MoCo was sounding the alarm. They will be crushed in the next election and will really miss the days of David Blair.

VA used to be VERY red so the choice was easier. But now it's purple, their schools are better and their jobs and taxation are better. It's a no-brainer. No amount of tree canopy in Bethesda can stand the steady tax increases .

I would love to see Montgomery county become purple. It needs balance.

This is it folks. This is Right-wingers wet dream.
No wonder they hate MoCo and keep screaming "the skies are falling ".
But sorry, it ain't gonna happen.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And thanks to taxes we have better services than many other places.

Suits me.

Are the services in MoCo actually any better than Fairfax? The school systems seem pretty similar. No apparent differences in police or fire or roads. They actually have a better county park system with lots of youth fields, much better than ours. What are we getting for all these extra taxes?

Fairfax has money because they have actual job growth there.

MoCo thinks it can build wealth by providing services to poor people but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. We have no job growth and poor people living in slums.

DP.. there is no job growth, yet, I see a lot of $850K+ townhomes being built left and right around here. Are poor people renting these expensive TH?

they are living here but not working here.

Yes, most people who I know live in MoCo but work elsewhere. Namely DC, NoVa or other parts of Maryland like Howard County or Baltimore County and City.

That's in your imaginary world and DCUM, but in the real world close to 70% of MoCo residents, work in MoCo.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the PP is on to something and this is why the Democratic Central Committee in MoCo was sounding the alarm. They will be crushed in the next election and will really miss the days of David Blair.

VA used to be VERY red so the choice was easier. But now it's purple, their schools are better and their jobs and taxation are better. It's a no-brainer. No amount of tree canopy in Bethesda can stand the steady tax increases .

I would love to see Montgomery county become purple. It needs balance.

This is it folks. This is Right-wingers wet dream.
No wonder they hate MoCo and keep screaming "the skies are falling ".
But sorry, it ain't gonna happen.

There's a legion of turfers making these posts here daily.