A meals tax?

[Anonymous]

I didn't know this was a serious option. A meals tax referendum?

http://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2016/06/supervisors-to-vote-on-meals-tax-referendum-tuesday/

[Anonymous]

Is this in addition to the proposed real estate tax increase? Or in lieu of?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this in addition to the proposed real estate tax increase? Or in lieu of?

Fairfax is run by Democrats. What do you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this in addition to the proposed real estate tax increase? Or in lieu of?

Fairfax is run by Democrats. What do you think?

I think it's in lieu of.

[Anonymous]

All for the meals tax. Let the apartment-living ESL and FARM families contribute something toward the cost to educate their kids when they go to McDonalds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All for the meals tax. Let the apartment-living ESL and FARM families contribute something toward the cost to educate their kids when they go to McDonalds.

Less cynically, every other area locally hams am meals tax. What's the rationale for Fairfax not to have one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All for the meals tax. Let the apartment-living ESL and FARM families contribute something toward the cost to educate their kids when they go to McDonalds.

Less cynically, every other area locally hams am meals tax. What's the rationale for Fairfax not to have one?

There are only two rationales - taxes are always bad and this is a regressive tax.

Otherwise, it's a good idea for an aging suburb, particularly when other jurisdictions already have one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All for the meals tax. Let the apartment-living ESL and FARM families contribute something toward the cost to educate their kids when they go to McDonalds.

Less cynically, every other area locally hams am meals tax. What's the rationale for Fairfax not to have one?

Loudoun doesn't. But even if it did, what sort of argument is "Well, every other county has one."? My teen is trying to convince us to buy her an iPhone using that same line of reasoning. Pretty juvenile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All for the meals tax. Let the apartment-living ESL and FARM families contribute something toward the cost to educate their kids when they go to McDonalds.

Less cynically, every other area locally hams am meals tax. What's the rationale for Fairfax not to have one?

Loudoun doesn't. But even if it did, what sort of argument is "Well, every other county has one."? My teen is trying to convince us to buy her an iPhone using that same line of reasoning. Pretty juvenile.

It means it won't harm businesses, who are complaining that it will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All for the meals tax. Let the apartment-living ESL and FARM families contribute something toward the cost to educate their kids when they go to McDonalds.

Less cynically, every other area locally hams am meals tax. What's the rationale for Fairfax not to have one?

Loudoun doesn't. But even if it did, what sort of argument is "Well, every other county has one."? My teen is trying to convince us to buy her an iPhone using that same line of reasoning. Pretty juvenile.

It means it won't harm businesses, who are complaining that it will.

Yes it will.

Signed,
Np and a consumer

[Anonymous]

Oh my ass. You're going to stop eating out because it suddenly costs a teeny bit more? It's always cost more than simply throwing a chicken breast, a potato and some vegetables in the oven.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh my ass. You're going to stop eating out because it suddenly costs a teeny bit more? It's always cost more than simply throwing a chicken breast, a potato and some vegetables in the oven.

Don't believe me? Ok. It's not about the "teeny bit" of extra cost. It's about f.u. to the tax & spend democrats. And we don't eat much chicken or potatoes either. We eat mostly vegetarian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh my ass. You're going to stop eating out because it suddenly costs a teeny bit more? It's always cost more than simply throwing a chicken breast, a potato and some vegetables in the oven.

Don't believe me? Ok. It's not about the "teeny bit" of extra cost. It's about f.u. to the tax & spend democrats. And we don't eat much chicken or potatoes either. We eat mostly vegetarian.

It's this or the real estate tax. Or having larger class sizes and lower paid teachers. Or move to Arlington, which has a meals tax and a HS crisis.

[Anonymous]

Taxes, taxes, taxes=Democratic modus operandi.

Still, all the other local Demokratic gobermints already imposed a meals tax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh my ass. You're going to stop eating out because it suddenly costs a teeny bit more? It's always cost more than simply throwing a chicken breast, a potato and some vegetables in the oven.

Typical tax-and-spend liberal feedback. "Oh, come on, it's just a teeny bit. You don't hate children, do you?". When does a teeny bit become a not so teeny bit?