People’s Republic of Montgomery County

[Anonymous]

So Op's complaints are ~ MoCo taxes too much, can be accused of cronyism, and won't open schools due to union demands

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP — I’d be more willing to listen if you weren’t so over the top. Tone it down and try again, and you might convince more people.

OK then let me calm down and try again. This is why MoCo is failing:

- Council supports crony capitalism for developer donors
- Executive doesn’t appear to support private sector at all
- Council supports meaningless social justice initiatives
- Executive has bombastic history of leftist rhetoric and associations
- Executive favors insider supporters over regular constituents
- Like other leftist regimes, when you tax and “social justice” your tax base to oblivion, they leave.

Got it?

Is this like the anarchy in Portland, or New York City emptying out? And then you go to Portland and almost all of the streets are as orderly as ever, or you go to New York City and there are still millions of people living there?

Montgomery County isn't paradise on earth, to be sure, but the only people who believe Montgomery County is failing are people who wish it were still 1975 in Montgomery County. Or maybe 1955.

[Anonymous]

OP seems like the type that would try to drop “socialists” out of helicopters, a la Pinochet.

Step back from the edge, OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP — I’d be more willing to listen if you weren’t so over the top. Tone it down and try again, and you might convince more people.

OK then let me calm down and try again. This is why MoCo is failing:

- Council supports crony capitalism for developer donors
- Executive doesn’t appear to support private sector at all
- Council supports meaningless social justice initiatives
- Executive has bombastic history of leftist rhetoric and associations
- Executive favors insider supporters over regular constituents
- Like other leftist regimes, when you tax and “social justice” your tax base to oblivion, they leave.

Got it?

Is this like the anarchy in Portland, or New York City emptying out? And then you go to Portland and almost all of the streets are as orderly as ever, or you go to New York City and there are still millions of people living there?

Montgomery County isn't paradise on earth, to be sure, but the only people who believe Montgomery County is failing are people who wish it were still 1975 in Montgomery County. Or maybe 1955.

1975 was pretty great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP — I’d be more willing to listen if you weren’t so over the top. Tone it down and try again, and you might convince more people.

OK then let me calm down and try again. This is why MoCo is failing:

- Council supports crony capitalism for developer donors
- Executive doesn’t appear to support private sector at all
- Council supports meaningless social justice initiatives
- Executive has bombastic history of leftist rhetoric and associations
- Executive favors insider supporters over regular constituents
- Like other leftist regimes, when you tax and “social justice” your tax base to oblivion, they leave.

Got it?

Is this like the anarchy in Portland, or New York City emptying out? And then you go to Portland and almost all of the streets are as orderly as ever, or you go to New York City and there are still millions of people living there?

Montgomery County isn't paradise on earth, to be sure, but the only people who believe Montgomery County is failing are people who wish it were still 1975 in Montgomery County. Or maybe 1955.

1975 was pretty great.

I know right? The original owners of my house paid $50k for it in 1975.

[Anonymous]

Montgomery County cannot be communist or socialist. It does not have universal healthcare or subsidized daycares, two very desirable items I would like to add to the USA.

I actually lived under a socialist government for many years, so I know the difference between centrist policies such as the ones implemented by MoCo, and real socialism. The USA is in general a right to far-right-wing country, with some pockets of it leaning to the center. There is no left-wing whatsoever in the USA.

But I'm tired of replying to incendiary, know-nothing bottom-dwellers like OP, so I'll stop there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, there are a handful in Moco that are great. I would send my kids to every single HS in Hoco

Your true color is showing.

[Anonymous]

MoCo is rapidly circling the toilet and will get flushed soon like the turd it is.

MoCo has had stagnant job and business growth for almost 20 years now. The county continues to be hostile to business. MoCo has been getting its ass kicked by NoVa for bringing in jobs and businesses. The list is too long to write at this point of allllllllllllllllllll the business MoCo has lost to NoVa over the last 20 years. The only solution for MoCo is to keep doubling down on higher and higher taxes because the government that moronic voters in the county elect have no other solutions for diversifying the tax base.

The county release the demographics outlook for about the next 20 years a little while ago. The projections are dire. The number of workers who will be in their prime earning years is set to continually decrease over the next 10-20 years while the number of the retirees is going to explode. That means MoCo's tax base will continue to erode, and to stop the hemorrhaging MoCo's leaders, of course, will keep trying to raise taxes. Remember, this is against the backdrop of MoCo being warned already that its credit rating was at risk because the county was robbing Peter to pay Paul since it has so much debt and obligations.

With the expected demographics shift for the county that not even immigrants can make up for to attenuate the tidal wave of baby boomers completely withdrawing from the labor market in retirement, MoCo is going to enter a death spiral where it will constantly raise taxes to make up for budget shortfalls, tax hikes will cause people to flee, which will result in more taxes, and so the cycle goes.


It is because MoCo's far left leaning govt has no checks and balance and diverse opinions in thought. The answer is always higher taxes and double down on what are perceived to be socially 'progressive' plans for the county that end up chasing businesses and high paying, law abiding citizens away.

[Anonymous]

"far left leaning govt", snort.

[Anonymous]

He is destroying the police department. That part is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MoCo is rapidly circling the toilet and will get flushed soon like the turd it is.

MoCo has had stagnant job and business growth for almost 20 years now. The county continues to be hostile to business. MoCo has been getting its ass kicked by NoVa for bringing in jobs and businesses. The list is too long to write at this point of allllllllllllllllllll the business MoCo has lost to NoVa over the last 20 years. The only solution for MoCo is to keep doubling down on higher and higher taxes because the government that moronic voters in the county elect have no other solutions for diversifying the tax base.

The county release the demographics outlook for about the next 20 years a little while ago. The projections are dire. The number of workers who will be in their prime earning years is set to continually decrease over the next 10-20 years while the number of the retirees is going to explode. That means MoCo's tax base will continue to erode, and to stop the hemorrhaging MoCo's leaders, of course, will keep trying to raise taxes. Remember, this is against the backdrop of MoCo being warned already that its credit rating was at risk because the county was robbing Peter to pay Paul since it has so much debt and obligations.

With the expected demographics shift for the county that not even immigrants can make up for to attenuate the tidal wave of baby boomers completely withdrawing from the labor market in retirement, MoCo is going to enter a death spiral where it will constantly raise taxes to make up for budget shortfalls, tax hikes will cause people to flee, which will result in more taxes, and so the cycle goes.


It is because MoCo's far left leaning govt has no checks and balance and diverse opinions in thought. The answer is always higher taxes and double down on what are perceived to be socially 'progressive' plans for the county that end up chasing businesses and high paying, law abiding citizens away.

Yawn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I agree with you.
I wish we could move, but our jobs have a pinned.

You know you could just cross the river, right? Or drive down on wisconsin Ave, or Connecticut Ave, or Massachusetts Ave or 16th street down to DC, right?

[Anonymous]

Can we be like Sweden? They can tax me at 50 percent if they can promise me all kids can get a great education at a low cost and I can get seriously ill without bankrupting my whole family.

[Anonymous]

You all keep saying “leftist” like it’s a bad word, like you’re insulting us. You know we are proud of being liberal/progressive, right? We shout it from the rooftops. You are complimenting us, not shaming us. Being called conservative would be an insult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we be like Sweden? They can tax me at 50 percent if they can promise me all kids can get a great education at a low cost and I can get seriously ill without bankrupting my whole family.

This.