Virginia election 2019

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing: DCUM posts are entirely unrepresentative of how people in the area actually feel and vote. We get this is your safe space to come and vent and put your right-wing heroes on a pedestal. But no one, especially after this election cycle, should walk away thinking that what gets posted on this forum about local politicians or schools is true or even remotely indicative of what most people in the region believe.

It is one small pocket of the universe, and highly skewed to the right.

Lol. Gee, glad you...umm...figured it all out for everyone else.

My liberal in-laws tell me they moved here for jobs and won’t go back north due to no jobs and high taxes. Why are there no good jobs in Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders territory?

Why are there no good jobs in the solid red deep south?

[Anonymous]

My liberal in-laws tell me they moved here for jobs and won’t go back north due to no jobs and high taxes. Why are there no good jobs in Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders territory?

No jobs in...Massachusetts? Boston is one of the fastest growing labor markets in the country (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/12/glassdoor-job-market-report-cities-with-high-growth-in-job-openings.html) and the state as a whole has a 2.9% unemployment rate (https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm) (Vermont is even lower, by the way). Maybe your "liberal in-laws" are just out of touch with reality?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hold onto your wallets, Virginia.

The Democrats will be coming for your money.

And their own jobs. And their own homes. And their own schools.

I woke up this morning with a new perspective. I want to see these liberals drink the poison they put in their own wells. I just paid a $700 water bill (common in my area). $300 of it were taxes of various types - only $400 were actual charges.

That’s a hyper local issue. You must get your water from a town or other small municipality (like Herndon or Leesburg.) I have Loudoun water, a large home and in ground sprinklers and have never had a bad water bill. Don’t blame the Dems for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hold onto your wallets, Virginia.

The Democrats will be coming for your money.

And their own jobs. And their own homes. And their own schools.

I woke up this morning with a new perspective. I want to see these liberals drink the poison they put in their own wells. I just paid a $700 water bill (common in my area). $300 of it were taxes of various types - only $400 were actual charges.

That’s a hyper local issue. You must get your water from a town or other small municipality (like Herndon or Leesburg.) I have Loudoun water, a large home and in ground sprinklers and have never had a bad water bill. Don’t blame the Dems for this.

PP is intent on blaming Dems for EVERYTHING.
Bad back "It's the Dems"...toothache "It's the Dems"...diarrhea "It's the Dems"
Chronically unhappy people like the PP have a habit of blaming others and making excuses as to why the fault of their misery lies elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hold onto your wallets, Virginia.

The Democrats will be coming for your money.

And their own jobs. And their own homes. And their own schools.

I woke up this morning with a new perspective. I want to see these liberals drink the poison they put in their own wells. I just paid a $700 water bill (common in my area). $300 of it were taxes of various types - only $400 were actual charges.

Sore loser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

My liberal in-laws tell me they moved here for jobs and won’t go back north due to no jobs and high taxes. Why are there no good jobs in Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders territory?

No jobs in...Massachusetts? Boston is one of the fastest growing labor markets in the country (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/12/glassdoor-job-market-report-cities-with-high-growth-in-job-openings.html) and the state as a whole has a 2.9% unemployment rate (https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm) (Vermont is even lower, by the way). Maybe your "liberal in-laws" are just out of touch with reality?

More like the “liberal in-laws” are a figment of PP’s imagination.

[Anonymous]

Desirable places have at least a medium level of taxation to pay for excellent public services and to create the shared infrastructure (roads, schools, power transmission, communication) that allows capitalism to thrive. The local polities can charge these taxes because of demand to live in the state.

Virginia has found that sweet spot: taxes are not crazy high (like Connecticut), but are also high enough to support the infrastructure that attracts smart upper-middle class people.

Virginia also thrived because it was sort of a local tax dodge for very rich people in the DMV. MD and DC have much higher income taxes, so the very wealthy moved to Nova. If VA raises income taxes on the top-tier, there's really nowhere else for these elites to run. Sure, they can move to Florida but its a huge PITA to spend your days on a plane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

My liberal in-laws tell me they moved here for jobs and won’t go back north due to no jobs and high taxes. Why are there no good jobs in Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders territory?

No jobs in...Massachusetts? Boston is one of the fastest growing labor markets in the country (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/12/glassdoor-job-market-report-cities-with-high-growth-in-job-openings.html) and the state as a whole has a 2.9% unemployment rate (https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm) (Vermont is even lower, by the way). Maybe your "liberal in-laws" are just out of touch with reality?

More like the “liberal in-laws” are a figment of PP’s imagination.

Apparently they aren’t the ‘right jobs’. Vermont has a HUGE HUGE meth problem. HUGE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hold onto your wallets, Virginia.

The Democrats will be coming for your money.

And their own jobs. And their own homes. And their own schools.

I woke up this morning with a new perspective. I want to see these liberals drink the poison they put in their own wells. I just paid a $700 water bill (common in my area). $300 of it were taxes of various types - only $400 were actual charges.

Sore loser.

Actually not a sore loser. Doesn’t it make sense that what you vote for you should live with? Or do you believe you vote simply to ‘stick it to the other guy’ but will work to avoid the policies you voted in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Desirable places have at least a medium level of taxation to pay for excellent public services and to create the shared infrastructure (roads, schools, power transmission, communication) that allows capitalism to thrive. The local polities can charge these taxes because of demand to live in the state.

Virginia has found that sweet spot: taxes are not crazy high (like Connecticut), but are also high enough to support the infrastructure that attracts smart upper-middle class people.

Virginia also thrived because it was sort of a local tax dodge for very rich people in the DMV. MD and DC have much higher income taxes, so the very wealthy moved to Nova. If VA raises income taxes on the top-tier, there's really nowhere else for these elites to run. Sure, they can move to Florida but its a huge PITA to spend your days on a plane.

But they showed us, right PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hold onto your wallets, Virginia.

The Democrats will be coming for your money.

And their own jobs. And their own homes. And their own schools.

I woke up this morning with a new perspective. I want to see these liberals drink the poison they put in their own wells. I just paid a $700 water bill (common in my area). $300 of it were taxes of various types - only $400 were actual charges.

That’s a hyper local issue. You must get your water from a town or other small municipality (like Herndon or Leesburg.) I have Loudoun water, a large home and in ground sprinklers and have never had a bad water bill. Don’t blame the Dems for this.

PP is intent on blaming Dems for EVERYTHING.
Bad back "It's the Dems"...toothache "It's the Dems"...diarrhea "It's the Dems"
Chronically unhappy people like the PP have a habit of blaming others and making excuses as to why the fault of their misery lies elsewhere.

Fairfax County, actually. And my Dem husband blames all his ills on fate - ie. He has no control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing: DCUM posts are entirely unrepresentative of how people in the area actually feel and vote. We get this is your safe space to come and vent and put your right-wing heroes on a pedestal. But no one, especially after this election cycle, should walk away thinking that what gets posted on this forum about local politicians or schools is true or even remotely indicative of what most people in the region believe.

It is one small pocket of the universe, and highly skewed to the right.

Lol. Gee, glad you...umm...figured it all out for everyone else.

My liberal in-laws tell me they moved here for jobs and won’t go back north due to no jobs and high taxes. Why are there no good jobs in Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders territory?

Why are there no good jobs in the solid red deep south?

Because there are a lot of poor minorities there who vote Dem. There are actually good jobs for those willing to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Democrats are a disgrace. Republicans will win back seats. Why the hell did we elect 3 losers... just sad.

Why the hell is their such a loser in the WH?

I’m happy today.

[Anonymous]

I'm fine with my taxes going up if that's what it takes for sensible gun legistlation and people willing to stand up to the NRA, which seems to be imploding, btw. Sandy Hook and our nation's lack of response to it pretty much turned me into a single issue voter, which I was not before.

Fiscally, I don't even have a party. I'm for balanced budgets and paying down the national debt, which apparently is not a thing any more for either party. The two national parties just run up the debt on different things. At least the Dem's things try to help people. The Repubs just want to give tax cuts to rich people. I don't agree with either if we can't afford it, but if we are doing it anyway, I'm with the Dems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For all the transplants to Virginia - what brought you here. Jobs, I assume. Why do you think you were able to get a good job in Virginia? Because the companies moved here and built here due to favorable tax law. They moved out of the high tax northern areas to come here. So when the companies start leaving Virginia due to taxes, you will move again and then vote for higher taxes to ‘stick it to the corporations’, and then what? What happens when you’ve turned everyplace blue and raised everyone’s taxes to NY and NY and MA levels? Yep, you will have stuck it to the man all right, and then what?

1. The company that I originally came to Va for was not drawn by low taxes. It was a branch of an out of town consulting firm, and the local head was from Va and wanted to be here - plus the airport access was important. No way they would have gone to Kentucky or South Carolina.

2. You will notice Amazon has chosen Arlington the bluest part of Virginia. If anything we have too many jobs coming now (though with hard work we can adjust to it)

3. NY and MA continue to have huge numbers of jobs and high housing costs. So much that NY could blow Amazon off.