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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pagnucco is right. Jawando is talking out of his ***. He is all image and no substance.

That video looks suspiciously like a campaign ad using county time and funds too.

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/04/22/absolutely-bonkers/

Where are the Friedson or Glass plans? So far they’ve only come out for spending more money. I don’t remember Pagnucco criticizing Friedson or Glass when they opposed the property tax increase, so this just sounds like another hit job. I wonder who pays him to write that blog.

They are working within the regular framework to reduce spending?

Jawando's plan is no plan. $8 million from the highest earners? There are like 50 of them and they could always just move away.

[Anonymous]

Schools were once the best in the country, not anymore but their budget is so much more than what it was.

We had clean streets and nice roads, not anymore

We had low crime, murders are up to the high 20s each year.

recreation fields and centers are a mess.

usually when you pay more you get more, are you getting more?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pagnucco is right. Jawando is talking out of his ***. He is all image and no substance.

That video looks suspiciously like a campaign ad using county time and funds too.

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/04/22/absolutely-bonkers/

Where are the Friedson or Glass plans? So far they’ve only come out for spending more money. I don’t remember Pagnucco criticizing Friedson or Glass when they opposed the property tax increase, so this just sounds like another hit job. I wonder who pays him to write that blog.

They are working within the regular framework to reduce spending?

Jawando's plan is no plan. $8 million from the highest earners? There are like 50 of them and they could always just move away.

Name one thing Friedson has proposed cutting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like textbook “angry white man syndrome”. Just a standard boilerplate maga rant. “Oh, my property taxes are too high!” “You’re spending MY money on brown people!” “I’ll close my remarks by threatening you.”

Fortunately there are more than enough good and decent people in MoCo to drown out violent screaming nutjobs like that a-hole.

why is it maga? i'm not maga and my property taxes have almost increased 100% in a decade or so. why should I be happy about that.

and before you talk about home prices, we havent gotten any better services in a decade to justify 100% increase in property taxes. 51% goes to MCPS and elrich wants a special assessment on top of the increases for Capital projects.

maybe you dont care but people are fed up.

+1

The fact that the county decides to raise my taxes does not mean that my property value automatically increases proportionally.

Moreover, I believe that education is vital, not just for the individual students’ futures, but for the future of our community. I don’t mind paying taxes to ensure our kids have safe schools, a solid curriculum, and to make sure our teachers are fairly paid, including COLAs and other adjustments so that they can afford the high cost of living in this county. What I object to is MCPS treating the county budget like their own (bottomless) piggy bank. They embrace every educational trend and continually market themselves so that they can convince the taxpayers that “MCPS is one of the best school systems in the country” and that they are providing a “21st century education”.

I remember when I first realized how self-indulgent and profligate MCPS actually was. I was attending a curriculum meeting during the 2008-09 school year, during the financial crisis (which certainly wasn’t raising property values), while things were still trending downhill and we didn’t yet know how just how far the economy might eventually fall, when MCPS proudly announced their new initiative to put a Promethean SMART board in every classroom. They boasted about the assorted functions, but were flummoxed when I asked what they could do that we couldn’t already do with the current technology of the equipment that the school system already owned. After hemming and hawing a bit, they finally realized that Promethean boards would allow teachers to annotate videos they were showing. When I suggested that maybe we should wait a few years until the economy had stabilized before we made a significant spending commitment, my caution was dismissed, after all, they had to provide the aforementioned “21st century education”. Later, as the Promethean boards started appearing in the classrooms, I asked my kids teachers about their experiences with the boards. The general consensus is that while they made some functions more convenient, they were under a lot of pressure to use the bells and whistles, even in cases where the “smart” functions were less effective and efficient than simply using traditional methods.

I don’t mind paying taxes to provide a high quality education to our students, moderately generous salaries that will attract teachers to our country and allow them to live here comfortably, and assisting disadvantaged families (regardless of color) that struggle with our high cost of living. I do object, however, to stoking the whims and egos of the MCPS administrators with my taxes.

Coming from a mid-sized district in another state, I was shocked that in “one of the best school systems in the country”, educated parents tended to either support the booming tutoring industry or teach their kids at home, and too often kids whose parents wouldn’t or couldn’t supplement education were left floundering. Now, apparently, discipline has deteriorated to the point that bathrooms are kept locked and some classrooms have to be repeatedly evacuated because a student is having a meltdown (I’m sympathetic to a student in crisis, but if they are frequently in crisis, then they need something to change to help them, not just abandoning them to deal with their problems and then leaving the problems unaddressed).

I would like for the county to put their foot down with the MCPS budget. I want them to make it clear that if the relatively generous educational budget falls short of their desired spending, they need to start trimming the fat and focus on confining expenditures to those that directly benefit education.

I would vote for you for MCPS/MoCo government. +1 to all of this. At my MCPS middle school, we have to fundraise for enrichment and so that the teachers don't have to use their own money. I think we all just want some accountability. I was gobsmacked to read that the County had a surplus, but Frierson redirected the money to cronies' projects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like textbook “angry white man syndrome”. Just a standard boilerplate maga rant. “Oh, my property taxes are too high!” “You’re spending MY money on brown people!” “I’ll close my remarks by threatening you.”

Fortunately there are more than enough good and decent people in MoCo to drown out violent screaming nutjobs like that a-hole.

why is it maga? i'm not maga and my property taxes have almost increased 100% in a decade or so. why should I be happy about that.

and before you talk about home prices, we havent gotten any better services in a decade to justify 100% increase in property taxes. 51% goes to MCPS and elrich wants a special assessment on top of the increases for Capital projects.

maybe you dont care but people are fed up.

Your property taxes increased 100% because the value of your home increased 100%

… you psychopath

this isnt how property taxes work, its not an unrealized gains tax. and my property didnt increase anywhere near 100%.

this is the problem with socialists. they own nothing and they want the government to tax everyone out of their property b/c they think they'll get it

you wont

glad states are looking at if property taxes are the best want to fund. maryland will go to war to keep property taxes but they'll be plenty of states that get rid of them

This is the problem with maga they don’t know simple math.

What happened was Montgomery County did a reassessment of the value of your property. The value of my property was 350 then it was 550 then it was 750.

So yes, now I pay more property tax than when I originally bought if that’s not something in Montgomery County did.

There are no states in the United States that do not collect property tax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like textbook “angry white man syndrome”. Just a standard boilerplate maga rant. “Oh, my property taxes are too high!” “You’re spending MY money on brown people!” “I’ll close my remarks by threatening you.”

Fortunately there are more than enough good and decent people in MoCo to drown out violent screaming nutjobs like that a-hole.

why is it maga? i'm not maga and my property taxes have almost increased 100% in a decade or so. why should I be happy about that.

and before you talk about home prices, we havent gotten any better services in a decade to justify 100% increase in property taxes. 51% goes to MCPS and elrich wants a special assessment on top of the increases for Capital projects.

maybe you dont care but people are fed up.

Your property taxes increased 100% because the value of your home increased 100%

… you psychopath

this isnt how property taxes work, its not an unrealized gains tax. and my property didnt increase anywhere near 100%.

this is the problem with socialists. they own nothing and they want the government to tax everyone out of their property b/c they think they'll get it

you wont

glad states are looking at if property taxes are the best want to fund. maryland will go to war to keep property taxes but they'll be plenty of states that get rid of them

This is the problem with maga they don’t know simple math.

What happened was Montgomery County did a reassessment of the value of your property. The value of my property was 350 then it was 550 then it was 750.

So yes, now I pay more property tax than when I originally bought if that’s not something in Montgomery County did.

There are no states in the United States that do not collect property tax.

glad states are looking at if property taxes are the best want to fund

reread what i wrote. The trump admin has specifically talked about it and florida/texas and other states are looking to remove or cap the time limit.

no way, we should pay in perpetuity, a tax that is arbitrarily increased to fund local financial mismanagement

i'd be fine with paying it for 15 years but after that, go to a consumption type tax. I dont want to ever be at the mercy of Elrich and Moore,pluggin their. holes that I didnt create

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like textbook “angry white man syndrome”. Just a standard boilerplate maga rant. “Oh, my property taxes are too high!” “You’re spending MY money on brown people!” “I’ll close my remarks by threatening you.”

Fortunately there are more than enough good and decent people in MoCo to drown out violent screaming nutjobs like that a-hole.

Inflation goes up, house prices go up, and the government raises taxes because inflation went up and everything costs more

House prices go down, taxes go up, because government can't pay for the existing services.

Maybe we should think about what those "existing services" are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like textbook “angry white man syndrome”. Just a standard boilerplate maga rant. “Oh, my property taxes are too high!” “You’re spending MY money on brown people!” “I’ll close my remarks by threatening you.”

Fortunately there are more than enough good and decent people in MoCo to drown out violent screaming nutjobs like that a-hole.

Inflation goes up, house prices go up, and the government raises taxes because inflation went up and everything costs more

House prices go down, taxes go up, because government can't pay for the existing services.

Maybe we should think about what those "existing services" are.

never in. maryland. they tell us to pay and shut up or leave. A lot are leaving

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like textbook “angry white man syndrome”. Just a standard boilerplate maga rant. “Oh, my property taxes are too high!” “You’re spending MY money on brown people!” “I’ll close my remarks by threatening you.”

Fortunately there are more than enough good and decent people in MoCo to drown out violent screaming nutjobs like that a-hole.

why is it maga? i'm not maga and my property taxes have almost increased 100% in a decade or so. why should I be happy about that.

and before you talk about home prices, we havent gotten any better services in a decade to justify 100% increase in property taxes. 51% goes to MCPS and elrich wants a special assessment on top of the increases for Capital projects.

maybe you dont care but people are fed up.

Your property taxes increased 100% because the value of your home increased 100%

… you psychopath

this isnt how property taxes work, its not an unrealized gains tax. and my property didnt increase anywhere near 100%.

this is the problem with socialists. they own nothing and they want the government to tax everyone out of their property b/c they think they'll get it

you wont

glad states are looking at if property taxes are the best want to fund. maryland will go to war to keep property taxes but they'll be plenty of states that get rid of them

This is the problem with maga they don’t know simple math.

What happened was Montgomery County did a reassessment of the value of your property. The value of my property was 350 then it was 550 then it was 750.

So yes, now I pay more property tax than when I originally bought if that’s not something in Montgomery County did.

There are no states in the United States that do not collect property tax.

glad states are looking at if property taxes are the best want to fund

reread what i wrote. The trump admin has specifically talked about it and florida/texas and other states are looking to remove or cap the time limit.

no way, we should pay in perpetuity, a tax that is arbitrarily increased to fund local financial mismanagement

i'd be fine with paying it for 15 years but after that, go to a consumption type tax. I dont want to ever be at the mercy of Elrich and Moore,pluggin their. holes that I didnt create

You mean, there’s no plan but there’s a concept of a plan….

You guys are so gullible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like textbook “angry white man syndrome”. Just a standard boilerplate maga rant. “Oh, my property taxes are too high!” “You’re spending MY money on brown people!” “I’ll close my remarks by threatening you.”

Fortunately there are more than enough good and decent people in MoCo to drown out violent screaming nutjobs like that a-hole.

Inflation goes up, house prices go up, and the government raises taxes because inflation went up and everything costs more

House prices go down, taxes go up, because government can't pay for the existing services.

Maybe we should think about what those "existing services" are.

never in. maryland. they tell us to pay and shut up or leave. A lot are leaving

Yes, you should leave if you want worst schools, roads that have no upkeep, terrible transportation, no parks, no community centers, libraries that don’t have books, no restaurants, lack of choice in restaurants

Yes, if you want everything that Maryland gives you it cost money if you want very little go to a state that gives you very little

[Anonymous]

Arlington just approved a 5% property tax hike, a hike in the car tax, and higher water/sewer fees.

https://www.arlnow.com/2026/04/23/split-county-board-approves-2-cent-tax-hike-as-part-of-1-7b-budget/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like textbook “angry white man syndrome”. Just a standard boilerplate maga rant. “Oh, my property taxes are too high!” “You’re spending MY money on brown people!” “I’ll close my remarks by threatening you.”

Fortunately there are more than enough good and decent people in MoCo to drown out violent screaming nutjobs like that a-hole.

Inflation goes up, house prices go up, and the government raises taxes because inflation went up and everything costs more

House prices go down, taxes go up, because government can't pay for the existing services.

Maybe we should think about what those "existing services" are.

never in. maryland. they tell us to pay and shut up or leave. A lot are leaving

Yes, you should leave if you want worst schools, roads that have no upkeep, terrible transportation, no parks, no community centers, libraries that don’t have books, no restaurants, lack of choice in restaurants

Yes, if you want everything that Maryland gives you it cost money if you want very little go to a state that gives you very little

You guys need to update your talking points. These stats are at least 20 years old. Fact is mcps has only gotten worse even as it gets more and more money. Mcps is losing kids and isnt growing because parents rather go private or home school.

Roads are horrible. Nova has build tons of hov lanes on 495 and 95 and we've added nothing. Nova has built new metro stops up 267 and we cant get a freaking lite rail to work.

The pot holes in our county are as big as the insurance increases we've had to endure from thefts and illegals causing accidents with no insurance

These are scare tactics that worked 2 decades ago but no longer are true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like textbook “angry white man syndrome”. Just a standard boilerplate maga rant. “Oh, my property taxes are too high!” “You’re spending MY money on brown people!” “I’ll close my remarks by threatening you.”

Fortunately there are more than enough good and decent people in MoCo to drown out violent screaming nutjobs like that a-hole.

Inflation goes up, house prices go up, and the government raises taxes because inflation went up and everything costs more

House prices go down, taxes go up, because government can't pay for the existing services.

Maybe we should think about what those "existing services" are.

never in. maryland. they tell us to pay and shut up or leave. A lot are leaving

Yes, you should leave if you want worst schools, roads that have no upkeep, terrible transportation, no parks, no community centers, libraries that don’t have books, no restaurants, lack of choice in restaurants

Yes, if you want everything that Maryland gives you it cost money if you want very little go to a state that gives you very little

You guys need to update your talking points. These stats are at least 20 years old. Fact is mcps has only gotten worse even as it gets more and more money. Mcps is losing kids and isnt growing because parents rather go private or home school.

Roads are horrible. Nova has build tons of hov lanes on 495 and 95 and we've added nothing. Nova has built new metro stops up 267 and we cant get a freaking lite rail to work.

The pot holes in our county are as big as the insurance increases we've had to endure from thefts and illegals causing accidents with no insurance

These are scare tactics that worked 2 decades ago but no longer are true

Remember when Doug Duncan sold us smart growth and claimed it make the county flush with cash, jobs, and housing? They don’t use the term anymore but it’s basically what Planning still peddles even though the county can’t pay its bills, has negative private sector job growth, and has a housing crisis (in Planning’s own words).

[Anonymous]

Strange to bring up the purple line, when the fact is that were it not for Republican Larry Hogan, the project would have been done by now at a much smaller cost:

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/larry-hogan-purple-line-fiasco/

Unfortunately, Republicans are good at criticizing but not good at governing, as Maryland learned with Hogan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Strange to bring up the purple line, when the fact is that were it not for Republican Larry Hogan, the project would have been done by now at a much smaller cost:

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/larry-hogan-purple-line-fiasco/

Unfortunately, Republicans are good at criticizing but not good at governing, as Maryland learned with Hogan.

You think the purple line would have been done by now because the county did such a good job delivering the Silver Spring on time and on budget? One of our tax increases was specifically tied to that fiasco.