Why is suburban Maryland so leftist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it.

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics. MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers. Enjoy! I am moving!

We moved, too! I have many friends still in Mo Co - many in denial - but one too strapped to move. She's disgusted by the schools and their lack of rigor and discipline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it.

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics. MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers. Enjoy! I am moving!

+ a million

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it.

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics. MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers. Enjoy! I am moving!

We moved, too! I have many friends still in Mo Co - many in denial - but one too strapped to move. She's disgusted by the schools and their lack of rigor and discipline.

The "dwindling population" is increasing every year.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/md/montgomery-county-population/

Even at the 2018 rate, that's 12 people a day that need new housing. Strange way to describe a "dwindling population".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it.

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics. MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers. Enjoy! I am moving!

We moved, too! I have many friends still in Mo Co - many in denial - but one too strapped to move. She's disgusted by the schools and their lack of rigor and discipline.

Where did you move?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it.

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics. MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers. Enjoy! I am moving!

We moved, too! I have many friends still in Mo Co - many in denial - but one too strapped to move. She's disgusted by the schools and their lack of rigor and discipline.

The "dwindling population" is increasing every year.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/md/montgomery-county-population/

Even at the 2018 rate, that's 12 people a day that need new housing. Strange way to describe a "dwindling population".

The reference was to taxpayers, implicitly those who pay the incomes taxes on which the rest of MC live. Top 10% of TPs pay roughly 70% of income taxes. MC can't survive on low to medium income TPs. What Maryland and MC actually should do is to reduce upper rates and to eliminate Maryland estate tax, eliminating the financial incentive to leave Maryland. States like AZ and FL depend on the arrival of retirees, many of which move there for tax reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it.

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics. MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers. Enjoy! I am moving!

We moved, too! I have many friends still in Mo Co - many in denial - but one too strapped to move. She's disgusted by the schools and their lack of rigor and discipline.

The "dwindling population" is increasing every year.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/md/montgomery-county-population/

Even at the 2018 rate, that's 12 people a day that need new housing. Strange way to describe a "dwindling population".

The reference was to taxpayers, implicitly those who pay the incomes taxes on which the rest of MC live. Top 10% of TPs pay roughly 70% of income taxes. MC can't survive on low to medium income TPs. What Maryland and MC actually should do is to reduce upper rates and to eliminate Maryland estate tax, eliminating the financial incentive to leave Maryland. States like AZ and FL depend on the arrival of retirees, many of which move there for tax reasons.

Do you have some sort of link that shows high income tax payers moving out and poor people moving into their valuable homes?

[Anonymous]

I love Ct !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it.

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics. MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers. Enjoy! I am moving!

Is SS really similar politically to TP?

Im a NoVan, a a moderate to liberal Dem, and an urbanist, so from where I sit y'all would do better with Riemer than with this Elrich fellow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it.

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics. MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers. Enjoy! I am moving!

You're happy, we're happy, win-win.

[Anonymous]

MoCo is a in a death spiral

more and more illegal immigrant leaches

and more and more higher income folks moving to Virginia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MoCo is a in a death spiral

more and more illegal immigrant leaches

and more and more higher income folks moving to Virginia

An odd death spiral that has an increasing population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it.

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics. MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers. Enjoy! I am moving!

We moved, too! I have many friends still in Mo Co - many in denial - but one too strapped to move. She's disgusted by the schools and their lack of rigor and discipline.

The "dwindling population" is increasing every year.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/md/montgomery-county-population/

Even at the 2018 rate, that's 12 people a day that need new housing. Strange way to describe a "dwindling population".

The reference was to taxpayers, implicitly those who pay the incomes taxes on which the rest of MC live. Top 10% of TPs pay roughly 70% of income taxes. MC can't survive on low to medium income TPs. What Maryland and MC actually should do is to reduce upper rates and to eliminate Maryland estate tax, eliminating the financial incentive to leave Maryland. States like AZ and FL depend on the arrival of retirees, many of which move there for tax reasons.

Yes, a lot of folks move out of high col areas to lower col areas when they retire. We will, too, but it's not necessarily because of progressive politics. For example, I would *love* to retire to CA if I could, but housing costs are too high.

But high earners who are still working will stay in high col areas like MoCo because of the proximity to high paying jobs, which tend to be concentrated in progressive urban areas like the Bay Area and NYC, and DC. Those jobs are not located in very red counties in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
The reference was to taxpayers, implicitly those who pay the incomes taxes on which the rest of MC live. Top 10% of TPs pay roughly 70% of income taxes. MC can't survive on low to medium income TPs. What Maryland and MC actually should do is to reduce upper rates and to eliminate Maryland estate tax, eliminating the financial incentive to leave Maryland. States like AZ and FL depend on the arrival of retirees, many of which move there for tax reasons.

Yes, that's how it works in a system with progressive taxes. Actually that's a very common statistical distribution in general. The top 10-20% of [whatever] buy/use/pay/drink 70-80% of [whatever].

Also, it's absurd to say that the rest of Montgomery County lives on the rich people, but if the rest of Montgomery County actually did, it would be foolish to reduce the rich people's taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it.

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics. MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers. Enjoy! I am moving!

+ a million

If you plan to vote for the same type of people/policies in your new location, then you will have nowhere to go next.

Hopefully those that decide to leave understand this. People are leaving CA in droves and voting for the same idiocy in their new states, only to be surprised when the same stuff occurs again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good question. Proximity to DC, I guess? I'm a bleeding heart liberal in MoCo and love it here, but some of my conservative neighbors can't stop ranting about it.

And folks like me, a moderate Democrat, are tired of the silly SS and TP types that currently dominate MC politics. MC is well on the road toward being another CT, with serious financial problems and dwindling population of taxpayers. Enjoy! I am moving!

We moved, too! I have many friends still in Mo Co - many in denial - but one too strapped to move. She's disgusted by the schools and their lack of rigor and discipline.

The "dwindling population" is increasing every year.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/md/montgomery-county-population/

Even at the 2018 rate, that's 12 people a day that need new housing. Strange way to describe a "dwindling population".

The reference was to taxpayers, implicitly those who pay the incomes taxes on which the rest of MC live. Top 10% of TPs pay roughly 70% of income taxes. MC can't survive on low to medium income TPs. What Maryland and MC actually should do is to reduce upper rates and to eliminate Maryland estate tax, eliminating the financial incentive to leave Maryland. States like AZ and FL depend on the arrival of retirees, many of which move there for tax reasons.

Yes, a lot of folks move out of high col areas to lower col areas when they retire. We will, too, but it's not necessarily because of progressive politics. For example, I would *love* to retire to CA if I could, but housing costs are too high.

But high earners who are still working will stay in high col areas like MoCo because of the proximity to high paying jobs, which tend to be concentrated in progressive urban areas like the Bay Area and NYC, and DC. Those jobs are not located in very red counties in the US.

Why do you think that the housing costs are too high in CA, if not for the progressive politics? Do you honestly not see the link?