McDaniel on FCPS budget

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Anonymous wrote:Yes to the meals tax. It's paid predominantly by visitors from outside the county who are here on business or leisure.

It is projected that visitors to Fairfax County would pay 30% of the revenues raised, which is less than “predominantly.” https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/springfield/sites/springfield/files/Assets/Documents/PDF/MealsTax_VRLTAWhitePaper.pdf. Nonetheless, that 30% makes a big difference in terms of the cost to Fairfax County residents compared with raising the same amount of revenue through real estate taxes alone. For the lowest-income households, the cost of raising revenue through a meals tax is half the cost of raising the same amount of revenue through real estate taxes.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes to the meals tax. It's paid predominantly by visitors from outside the county who are here on business or leisure.

It is projected that visitors to Fairfax County would pay 30% of the revenues raised, which is less than “predominantly.” https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/springfield/sites/springfield/files/Assets/Documents/PDF/MealsTax_VRLTAWhitePaper.pdf. Nonetheless, that 30% makes a big difference in terms of the cost to Fairfax County residents compared with raising the same amount of revenue through real estate taxes alone. For the lowest-income households, the cost of raising revenue through a meals tax is half the cost of raising the same amount of revenue through real estate taxes.

How do you implement tax on just tourist if it’s outside of the airport or hotel?

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Anonymous wrote:Cut administration and gatehouse staff for starters.

This.

No additional taxes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes to the meals tax. It's paid predominantly by visitors from outside the county who are here on business or leisure.

It is projected that visitors to Fairfax County would pay 30% of the revenues raised, which is less than “predominantly.” https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/springfield/sites/springfield/files/Assets/Documents/PDF/MealsTax_VRLTAWhitePaper.pdf. Nonetheless, that 30% makes a big difference in terms of the cost to Fairfax County residents compared with raising the same amount of revenue through real estate taxes alone. For the lowest-income households, the cost of raising revenue through a meals tax is half the cost of raising the same amount of revenue through real estate taxes.

30 percent! That’s after years of increase. It’s increasing faster than my salary.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes to the meals tax. It's paid predominantly by visitors from outside the county who are here on business or leisure.

It is projected that visitors to Fairfax County would pay 30% of the revenues raised, which is less than “predominantly.” https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/springfield/sites/springfield/files/Assets/Documents/PDF/MealsTax_VRLTAWhitePaper.pdf. Nonetheless, that 30% makes a big difference in terms of the cost to Fairfax County residents compared with raising the same amount of revenue through real estate taxes alone. For the lowest-income households, the cost of raising revenue through a meals tax is half the cost of raising the same amount of revenue through real estate taxes.

30 percent! That’s after years of increase. It’s increasing faster than my salary.

I’m not sure what you are getting at here. It’s not a 30% increase, but rather 30% of the total.

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Anonymous wrote:We don't eat out much at all. Ever since the tipping culture has exploded and you are made to feel bad to not tip on a pizza carryout 20 percent. For instance, I took my kids to sweet frog which is expensive already, you take a cup and fill it yourself with ice cream and put your own toppings. Then you go pay and they ask for 20 percent tip. Tip for what? I stopped going and avoid eating out. I make our own food and buy our own ice cream. Take out is only a seldom occurance for our family. I don't care about this meals tax personally because I will probably eat out even less than now.

It’s shockingly easy to make pizza 🍕 crust from scratch and sauce can be made by adding a little tomato paste to a jarred sauce. Slice and brown some Trader Joe’s sausage , throw on cheese and you have a healthier, better tasting and less expensive dish for very little work.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes to the meals tax. It's paid predominantly by visitors from outside the county who are here on business or leisure.

And cut all the positions for teachers who aren't teaching: "specialists" and "coordinators" or similar at Gatehouse, instructional coaches, AART, etc. Interlopers who just add to everybody's workload to justify their pointless jobs.

It also hurts small business restaurants in the area. We don’t eat out that much, but I could see where this would put a lot of restaurants out of business. But the local democrats are so far left that they no longer care about trivialities like that.

So many neighboring places have meals taxes and t doesn’t hurt their restaurants. Restaurants have jacked up prices and are demanding tips for everything and they are still packed. Demand is strong.

I definitely support the meals tax for the county and the schools so that the on,y source of revenue isn’t property tax. Or let’s lobby the state to allow localities to enact an income tax like most places can in the country.

Typical democrat logic.
For years you’ve been moving into red areas and raising taxes because the existing rate is less than the blue areas you fled and “not that high”

[Anonymous]

My vote against the board in the general election is pointless. Bonds always pass too. If you disagree with school policy, voting against a meals tax is your only chance to express that frustration in a manner that has a chance of winning

[Anonymous]

Having worked at Gatehouse, the Bloat is Real. The SB takes up almost the entire 5th floor now, as they continually add personnel and resources, giving themselves annual raises, without any input. All questions from the public, which are plenty, are all sourced to employees to write, edit, rewrite.

The DEI staff has no responsibilities, no output, provide no student value. DEI head is Reid's buddy from PNW.

Thanks to the SB, and specifically Frisch, an entire school is being built where non is needed at Dunn Loring.

Large amounts of money were spent when WestPo was expanded, despite low enrollment nearby at Mt Vernon.

Hayfield & Edison, also nearby WestPo, have out-of- county and out-of-state students participating in sports (illegal btw), and non are paying tuition. The Hayfield Coach has been moved to Gatehouse, another waste of money.

Anyone who has worked at Gatehouse for over 3 years could name a bloated and farcical program/dept/person who was not fired or punished, but administratively placed.

Busses are available for kids who live across the street from an ES, so students don't have to cross busy streets (Sydenstricker Rd is a two lane road). Could the transportation dollars be spent elsewhere? Now, bussing is back on the agenda for Reid to send Hunt Valley ES students to Lewis HS, instead of WSHS. Students will ride the bus past WSHS, go through the Mixing Bowl during both rush hours, to get to Lewis HS. Was there a transportation study for viability? No. There are no AP courses at Lewis either. Money and resources have been thrown at Lewis HS for years and no improvements have been made. So now, bussing, because that will bring up the scores.

Throwing away more money "for the kids" is ridiculous and wasteful. Recommend that everyone who is for the Meals Tax to get a job with FCPS instead.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
It is projected that visitors to Fairfax County would pay 30% of the revenues raised, which is less than “predominantly.” https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/springfield/sites/springfield/files/Assets/Documents/PDF/MealsTax_VRLTAWhitePaper.pdf. Nonetheless, that 30% makes a big difference in terms of the cost to Fairfax County residents compared with raising the same amount of revenue through real estate taxes alone. For the lowest-income households, the cost of raising revenue through a meals tax is half the cost of raising the same amount of revenue through real estate taxes.

How do you implement tax on just tourist if it’s outside of the airport or hotel?

It would not be a tax just on tourists or other visitors to Fairfax County. If it somehow were, then the projected contribution from visitors to Fairfax County would be 100%, not 30%.

Still, 30% is significant. That would mean for every 70¢ collected in meals tax revenues from Fairfax County residents, an additional 30¢ would be collected from visitors to Fairfax County. That’s a better deal (at least for Fairfax County residents) than the real estate taxes. For every $1 in real estate taxes collected from Fairfax County residents and businesses, visitors to Fairfax County pay 0¢.

Would it be fair for Fairfax County to collect such meals taxes from visitors to Fairfax County? Sure! Alexandria, Arlington, City of Fairfax, Falls Church, Herndon, Manassas, Manassas Park, Prince William County, and Town of Vienna have been collecting meals tax revenues from Fairfax County residents (especially commuters) for years—decades even. Fairfax County adoption of a meals tax would just mean that visitors to Fairfax County (including hundreds of thousands of commuters) would finally start to reciprocate.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m convinced Fairfax County Schools is broke. They are looking for cash wherever they can.

They have over 3 BILLION dollar budget.

It is a money management issue, not a lack of funds issue.

They need to be audited.

Absolutely. They don't need more money. They need to spend less.

But the trend is to get more money to support more programs. We need more programs.

And more programs.


And more programs.


And more.

It’s because the test scores suck and they would probably see the most improvement by paying the highest and getting the best teachers but they go for another program instead.

Learning is not just a school responsibility.

It's not but schools really aren't teaching....the reason is they are weighed down by a teacher shortage-out of control behaviors- and a lack of funding in the needed areas. Let's not play games and ignore that there are warm bodies in classrooms now a days because teachers and admin are leaving. My son has not had a decent math teachers since.....umm I don't think he has. So what is the answer we all homeschool and pull our kids-a tutor is not going to make up for a lack of true daily instruction.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m convinced Fairfax County Schools is broke. They are looking for cash wherever they can.

They have over 3 BILLION dollar budget.

It is a money management issue, not a lack of funds issue.

They need to be audited.

Absolutely. They don't need more money. They need to spend less.

But the trend is to get more money to support more programs. We need more programs.

And more programs.


And more programs.


And more.

It’s because the test scores suck and they would probably see the most improvement by paying the highest and getting the best teachers but they go for another program instead.

Learning is not just a school responsibility.

It's not but schools really aren't teaching....the reason is they are weighed down by a teacher shortage-out of control behaviors- and a lack of funding in the needed areas. Let's not play games and ignore that there are warm bodies in classrooms now a days because teachers and admin are leaving. My son has not had a decent math teachers since.....umm I don't think he has. So what is the answer we all homeschool and pull our kids-a tutor is not going to make up for a lack of true daily instruction.

Agree. My plan is to fight the admin if my kid ends up with too many behavior cases. How many times does my kid need to have something thrown at them....least restrictive my butt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My vote against the board in the general election is pointless. Bonds always pass too. If you disagree with school policy, voting against a meals tax is your only chance to express that frustration in a manner that has a chance of winning

There’s no vote from residents required to enact a meals tax.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m convinced Fairfax County Schools is broke. They are looking for cash wherever they can.

They have over 3 BILLION dollar budget.

It is a money management issue, not a lack of funds issue.

They need to be audited.

Absolutely. They don't need more money. They need to spend less.

But the trend is to get more money to support more programs. We need more programs.

And more programs.




And more programs.


And more.

It’s because the test scores suck and they would probably see the most improvement by paying the highest and getting the best teachers but they go for another program instead.

Learning is not just a school responsibility.

It's not but schools really aren't teaching....the reason is they are weighed down by a teacher shortage-out of control behaviors- and a lack of funding in the needed areas. Let's not play games and ignore that there are warm bodies in classrooms now a days because teachers and admin are leaving. My son has not had a decent math teachers since.....umm I don't think he has. So what is the answer we all homeschool and pull our kids-a tutor is not going to make up for a lack of true daily instruction.

Agree. My plan is to fight the admin if my kid ends up with too many behavior cases. How many times does my kid need to have something thrown at them....least restrictive my butt.

Yes....teachers need parents to complain because admin is not listening to teachers and if we are being honest all the higher ups in Gatehouse are not listening to admin-it's a true cyclical issue. The biggest impact is on students and teachers. Students can't learn in these crazy environments and teachers can't teach in them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My vote against the board in the general election is pointless. Bonds always pass too. If you disagree with school policy, voting against a meals tax is your only chance to express that frustration in a manner that has a chance of winning

There’s no vote from residents required to enact a meals tax.

No vote so six ppl can just decide to tax?