Marc Elrich…….told you so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Suits me.

Are the services in MoCo actually any better than Fairfax? The school systems seem pretty similar. No apparent differences in police or fire or roads. They actually have a better county park system with lots of youth fields, much better than ours. What are we getting for all these extra taxes?

Fairfax has money because they have actual job growth there.

MoCo thinks it can build wealth by providing services to poor people but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. We have no job growth and poor people living in slums.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Suits me.

Are the services in MoCo actually any better than Fairfax? The school systems seem pretty similar. No apparent differences in police or fire or roads. They actually have a better county park system with lots of youth fields, much better than ours. What are we getting for all these extra taxes?

First I'd like you to demonstrate that the total tax burden is higher in Montgomery County than in Fairfax County.

[Anonymous]

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.

I have a home in a small town where we pay for every single separate service. The schools are good, as are social services for the elderly. HOWEVER that is changing due to moving illlegal immigrants, homeless, and forcing section 8 on the communities. Elderly are now getting beaten and robbed, and their services are dwindling, in favor of people from other nations. Police now can’t police anymore due to a new chief who won’t enforce law. People are starting to squat in vacation homes, and the laws won’t allow them to be evicted, or for you to turn off services to the house. If you want a reason for vigilante justice, you are seeing it now.

[Anonymous]

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.

I have a home in a small town where we pay for every single separate service. The schools are good, as are social services for the elderly. HOWEVER that is changing due to moving illlegal immigrants, homeless, and forcing section 8 on the communities. Elderly are now getting beaten and robbed, and their services are dwindling, in favor of people from other nations. Police now can’t police anymore due to a new chief who won’t enforce law. People are starting to squat in vacation homes, and the laws won’t allow them to be evicted, or for you to turn off services to the house. If you want a reason for vigilante justice, you are seeing it now.

So, things actually aren't good there in that small town where you have a home, or at least a house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the PP is on to something and this is why the Democratic Central Committee in MoCo was sounding the alarm. They will be crushed in the next election and will really miss the days of David Blair.

VA used to be VERY red so the choice was easier. But now it's purple, their schools are better and their jobs and taxation are better. It's a no-brainer. No amount of tree canopy in Bethesda can stand the steady tax increases .

I would love to see Montgomery county become purple. It needs balance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

NP. Well she clearly doesn’t mind paying everyone else’s; why not add the PP??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In case the point isn't clear enough to you, the math and the politics for funding schools doesn't work if we keep adding an outsized share of low-income kids.

Concentrated poverty is terrible for schools. We have numerous elementary schools with 70-80% FARMS rates. To nobody's surprise, the higher income people in those neighborhoods tend to choose private. While some of that I'm sure has to do with racism, it's also a rational choice given what we know about the impacts of concentrated poverty on education.

This is not sustainable, and I don't know how folks don't see this.

It’s racist to not want your kids to be left behind due to large populations of poor kids from other countries? Publics in liberal counties want to eliminate parent rights for just this reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the PP is on to something and this is why the Democratic Central Committee in MoCo was sounding the alarm. They will be crushed in the next election and will really miss the days of David Blair.

VA used to be VERY red so the choice was easier. But now it's purple, their schools are better and their jobs and taxation are better. It's a no-brainer. No amount of tree canopy in Bethesda can stand the steady tax increases .

They will not be crushed because they will ensure they aren’t. I still remember the look and chuckle of the guy manning the machine in the Fairfax County Govt. building when I asked why I could no longer see my voting choices on the screen before I hit the vote button. They had eliminated that feature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I have a home in a small town where we pay for every single separate service. The schools are good, as are social services for the elderly. HOWEVER that is changing due to moving illlegal immigrants, homeless, and forcing section 8 on the communities. Elderly are now getting beaten and robbed, and their services are dwindling, in favor of people from other nations. Police now can’t police anymore due to a new chief who won’t enforce law. People are starting to squat in vacation homes, and the laws won’t allow them to be evicted, or for you to turn off services to the house. If you want a reason for vigilante justice, you are seeing it now.

So, things actually aren't good there in that small town where you have a home, or at least a house?

They were wonderful and are now fast going downhill, due to the new policies in place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Suits me.

Are the services in MoCo actually any better than Fairfax? The school systems seem pretty similar. No apparent differences in police or fire or roads. They actually have a better county park system with lots of youth fields, much better than ours. What are we getting for all these extra taxes?

Fairfax has money because they have actual job growth there.

MoCo thinks it can build wealth by providing services to poor people but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. We have no job growth and poor people living in slums.

Judging by the huge increase of MD plates in VA in the past 5 years, I’d say this is correct

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In case the point isn't clear enough to you, the math and the politics for funding schools doesn't work if we keep adding an outsized share of low-income kids.

Concentrated poverty is terrible for schools. We have numerous elementary schools with 70-80% FARMS rates. To nobody's surprise, the higher income people in those neighborhoods tend to choose private. While some of that I'm sure has to do with racism, it's also a rational choice given what we know about the impacts of concentrated poverty on education.

This is not sustainable, and I don't know how folks don't see this.

It’s racist to not want your kids to be left behind due to large populations of poor kids from other countries? Publics in liberal counties want to eliminate parent rights for just this reason.

Most of these kids are actually poor kids from this country. Their parents are immigrants, just like one of my parents and three of my grandparents were immigrants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In case the point isn't clear enough to you, the math and the politics for funding schools doesn't work if we keep adding an outsized share of low-income kids.

Concentrated poverty is terrible for schools. We have numerous elementary schools with 70-80% FARMS rates. To nobody's surprise, the higher income people in those neighborhoods tend to choose private. While some of that I'm sure has to do with racism, it's also a rational choice given what we know about the impacts of concentrated poverty on education.

This is not sustainable, and I don't know how folks don't see this.

It’s racist to not want your kids to be left behind due to large populations of poor kids from other countries? Publics in liberal counties want to eliminate parent rights for just this reason.

You really needed to get your xenophobic rant on somehow didn't you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the PP is on to something and this is why the Democratic Central Committee in MoCo was sounding the alarm. They will be crushed in the next election and will really miss the days of David Blair.

VA used to be VERY red so the choice was easier. But now it's purple, their schools are better and their jobs and taxation are better. It's a no-brainer. No amount of tree canopy in Bethesda can stand the steady tax increases .

I would love to see Montgomery county become purple. It needs balance.

Good luck.

David Blair was the best chance and came blisteringly close but honestly it should have been a hands down blowout in his favor.

Reardon Sullivan would have been a nice alternative and I don’t think the council would have let his right wing culture war views to get anywhere, it would just be a good pro-business balance like Hogan. But voters chose Elrich over him 75%.

Montgomery County conservatives and moderates just don’t vote. They are not engaged, not organized, and they don’t vote. The voting electorate has a far-left mind virus. And it’s getting worse with more self-sorting. Pro-business-minded people are leaving the county, and those who move here are either poor and seeking government handouts, or deluded leftists seeking a Marxist utopia. Well good luck with your workers paradise. The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other peoples money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In case the point isn't clear enough to you, the math and the politics for funding schools doesn't work if we keep adding an outsized share of low-income kids.

Concentrated poverty is terrible for schools. We have numerous elementary schools with 70-80% FARMS rates. To nobody's surprise, the higher income people in those neighborhoods tend to choose private. While some of that I'm sure has to do with racism, it's also a rational choice given what we know about the impacts of concentrated poverty on education.

This is not sustainable, and I don't know how folks don't see this.

It’s racist to not want your kids to be left behind due to large populations of poor kids from other countries? Publics in liberal counties want to eliminate parent rights for just this reason.

Most of these kids are actually poor kids from this country. Their parents are immigrants, just like one of my parents and three of my grandparents were immigrants.

Your parents came here legally, more than likely. What’s going on now at the border is not constitutionally legal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the PP is on to something and this is why the Democratic Central Committee in MoCo was sounding the alarm. They will be crushed in the next election and will really miss the days of David Blair.

VA used to be VERY red so the choice was easier. But now it's purple, their schools are better and their jobs and taxation are better. It's a no-brainer. No amount of tree canopy in Bethesda can stand the steady tax increases .

I would love to see Montgomery county become purple. It needs balance.

Good luck.

David Blair was the best chance and came blisteringly close but honestly it should have been a hands down blowout in his favor.

Reardon Sullivan would have been a nice alternative and I don’t think the council would have let his right wing culture war views to get anywhere, it would just be a good pro-business balance like Hogan. But voters chose Elrich over him 75%.

Montgomery County conservatives and moderates just don’t vote. They are not engaged, not organized, and they don’t vote. The voting electorate has a far-left mind virus. And it’s getting worse with more self-sorting. Pro-business-minded people are leaving the county, and those who move here are either poor and seeking government handouts, or deluded leftists seeking a Marxist utopia. Well good luck with your workers paradise. The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other peoples money.

My favorite threads here are the ones lamenting about multi-family homes in THEIR neighborhoods. And the threads about carjackings and how can that happen in our rich enclave of Bethesda?? The disconnect is just gold.