Will anyone notice that the DC Council is considering tax increases, again?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:250,000 is not rich and barely scraping by these days

Ha! $250,000 puts you in the top 2% of HI in the country.

Stop trying to justify not paying g your fair share. Greedy rich people like you crying “middle class” is gross.

Is this a joke? High school gym teachers in DCPS make six figures. Salaries are very high here because the cost of living is very high too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They should be raising taxes. That’s what DC voters voted overwhelmingly for. People want the rich paying their fair share. That’s what they voted for. The council has a mandate for giving the voters what they want.

LOL it's one thing when federal income taxes go up (everyone affected in all states) but this strategy is entirely unsustainable when people can just move across the border to Virginia or Maryland. You can't keep drawing water from a shrinking well forever

It’s DC - everyone wants to live here and always will. The people who were going to flee won’t stay if there are no taxes.

[Anonymous]

The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

[Anonymous]

Approximately 45% of the blacks in DC (approx 136,000) lack resources to care for themselves. When you have a large group of people dependent on taxpayers to live, the only thing to do when commercial values fall is to raise taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Matt Frumin (Ward 3, ironically) proposing an income tax increase on households making $250K+, and Zach Parker (Ward 5) proposing a capital gains tax increase. All this will be decided in dark of night in the next 10 days or so.

As a member of a Ward 3 household that makes more than $250k (and also has capital gains to report every year), I am totally fine with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Approximately 45% of the blacks in DC (approx 136,000) lack resources to care for themselves. When you have a large group of people dependent on taxpayers to live, the only thing to do when commercial values fall is to raise taxes.

Source? I’m not necessarily doubting the figure as it seems plausible given poverty rates etc, but I’d like to see the data.

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Every single thing Frumin does (or doesn't do) seems to suggest that he doesn't want another term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Approximately 45% of the blacks in DC (approx 136,000) lack resources to care for themselves. When you have a large group of people dependent on taxpayers to live, the only thing to do when commercial values fall is to raise taxes.

I thought the new stadium would be producing a bunch of revenue for the District? Wouldn't this offset the commerical business losses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The city is spending a quarter-million dollars a pop on special machines that clean bike lanes. That money has to come from somewhere.

Instead of raising taxes, maybe we don't need to spend millions of dollars on stupid shit like this.

[Anonymous]

DC already has the highest taxes in the country on a per capita basis (per the city's chief financial officer). How about just cutting spending instead? Do our parking attendants really need nicer cars than the chief of police of Philadelphia?

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This is the same government that spend $200 million building the streetcar along H street only to close it after only a couple years in service.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

My family has been raising children on between 98K and 180K for the past 15 years. But, thanks for showing once again how out of touch you are, 1%er.

[Anonymous]

I don’t mind paying more in taxes if it goes to the schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

My family has been raising children on between 98K and 180K for the past 15 years. But, thanks for showing once again how out of touch you are, 1%er.

You have to make at least $1.2 million to be in the top 1 percent in Washington DC. But, hey, you're only off by a factor of five.