Marc Elrich…….told you so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MoCo's budget is busted because of health and human services, which are up 8-9% annually since 2019, and MCPS / fire / police pension funding. Covid obsession + taking care of illegal immigrants + giving in to unions takes it toll. We can't do this indefinitely.

Please note that Madaleno was a huge proponent of shifting teacher pension costs from the State to the county during the great recession. He has hurt us for a generation at least. And here he is as Chief Administrative Officer.

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2010/03/23/madaleno-rocks-moco-on-teacher-pensions/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo's budget is busted because of health and human services, which are up 8-9% annually since 2019, and MCPS / fire / police pension funding. Covid obsession + taking care of illegal immigrants + giving in to unions takes it toll. We can't do this indefinitely.

And $18 million a year to the Green Bank.

Can someone explain how this Green Bank works? It seems like some magical thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo's budget is busted because of health and human services, which are up 8-9% annually since 2019, and MCPS / fire / police pension funding. Covid obsession + taking care of illegal immigrants + giving in to unions takes it toll. We can't do this indefinitely.

And $18 million a year to the Green Bank.

Can someone explain how this Green Bank works? It seems like some magical thinking.

We built a bank and give it 10% of our energy tax revenue each year, no questions asked.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resources/Files/agenda/cm/2023/20230504/20230504_GOTE1.pdf

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If you prefer living somewhere where you need to pay for every single separate service, like garbage removal, and where schools are cesspools with no decent curriculum, and where there are no social services for the poor, and no money for cultural endeavors and libraries, then by all means, move to a lower-tax state.

What you may not perceive from your vantage point of self-absorption, is that the more taxes are spent to benefit the population and lift up those with needs, the safer and better-off everyone is... even the ones who are not recipients of some of these services. Otherwise you let inequality fester, and all the problems it entails.

Inequality will fester here regardless since it’s a sanctuary county and disproportionate destination for the world’s downtrodden.

MoCo certainly should take care of our lower income citizens, but MoCo needs to be realistic here. Overly generous benefits are simply attracting more lower income citizens. And MoCo can't solve the poverty issue for mankind. And, yes, people do move for financial reasons, including govt programs.

+1

The planning department said itself MoCo is attracting an outsized share of low income people as new residents. I am not at all against services and housing for low income people, I live down the street from a subsidized apartment building and it's fine, this isn't about being a NIMBY, but the county budget can't expand indefinitely to serve these people. The rest of the region needs to carry the load as well. As it is they are instead attracting all the jobs.

[Anonymous]

Not to mention the schools. At the elementary level MCPS has a 47% FARMS rate up 10% from just a few years ago. It's becoming a school system for the poor and that isn't good for anybody.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the schools. At the elementary level MCPS has a 47% FARMS rate up 10% from just a few years ago. It's becoming a school system for the poor and that isn't good for anybody.

It's completely Marc Elrich's fault that it's not 1970 in Montgomery County anymore!!!!!!!!!11

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the schools. At the elementary level MCPS has a 47% FARMS rate up 10% from just a few years ago. It's becoming a school system for the poor and that isn't good for anybody.

It's completely Marc Elrich's fault that it's not 1970 in Montgomery County anymore!!!!!!!!!11

he is doing a lot to encourage it.

[Anonymous]

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

Suits me.

Then mind paying my taxes too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well it looks like MoCo’s property taxes are going up by almost 5%. Remind me again why I live here and not across the river? Please remind me how many votes he beat Blair by?

Well if you want your reproductive rights taken away be my guest

[Anonymous]

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

Suits me.

Then mind paying my taxes too?

Dp how do you figure the pp is happy paying your obligations as well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the schools. At the elementary level MCPS has a 47% FARMS rate up 10% from just a few years ago. It's becoming a school system for the poor and that isn't good for anybody.

MCPS used to be one of the very best public school systems in the entire US.

Not anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the schools. At the elementary level MCPS has a 47% FARMS rate up 10% from just a few years ago. It's becoming a school system for the poor and that isn't good for anybody.

It's completely Marc Elrich's fault that it's not 1970 in Montgomery County anymore!!!!!!!!!11

1970? You need only go back to 2010 when the FARMS rate for elementary schools was closer to one third than one half of all students. People are leaving MCPS. Look at Woodlin ES - used to have a FARMS rate of 20% a couple years ago. Now it is closer to 40%. White flight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the schools. At the elementary level MCPS has a 47% FARMS rate up 10% from just a few years ago. It's becoming a school system for the poor and that isn't good for anybody.

It's completely Marc Elrich's fault that it's not 1970 in Montgomery County anymore!!!!!!!!!11

1970? You need only go back to 2010 when the FARMS rate for elementary schools was closer to one third than one half of all students. People are leaving MCPS. Look at Woodlin ES - used to have a FARMS rate of 20% a couple years ago. Now it is closer to 40%. White flight.

"People" who? MCPS enrollment:

2010: 144,014
2023: 160,489

[Anonymous]

And enrollment at Woodlin ES specifically:

2010-11: 499
2022-23: 560

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the schools. At the elementary level MCPS has a 47% FARMS rate up 10% from just a few years ago. It's becoming a school system for the poor and that isn't good for anybody.

It's completely Marc Elrich's fault that it's not 1970 in Montgomery County anymore!!!!!!!!!11

1970? You need only go back to 2010 when the FARMS rate for elementary schools was closer to one third than one half of all students. People are leaving MCPS. Look at Woodlin ES - used to have a FARMS rate of 20% a couple years ago. Now it is closer to 40%. White flight.

"People" who? MCPS enrollment:

2010: 144,014
2023: 160,489

2020: 165,163
2023: 160,489

Rich people.

You know, the people you all assume you can just raise taxes on to fund everything.

Nobody is going to want to pay even more taxes for schools they aren't willing to send their kids to.