DC Councilmember floats 3 percent tax increase on everyone

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Anonymous wrote:Why not first cut all the waste? DC is spending money like drunk sailors.

What are the specific cuts you propose?

DC is giving restaurants $50,000 each. Why is the city giving $50,000 to for-profit businesses?

Because they are getting CRUSHED by DOGE cuts. Would you rather than all go out of business?

Pfft. It has nothing to do with DOGE. It's because of I-82, as restaurant owners have said, repeatedly.

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one of the tax increases they want to do would be applied retroactively going back to january 1

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Anonymous wrote:Why not first cut all the waste? DC is spending money like drunk sailors.

What are the specific cuts you propose?

DC is giving restaurants $50,000 each. Why is the city giving $50,000 to for-profit businesses?

Because they are getting CRUSHED by DOGE cuts. Would you rather than all go out of business?

Pfft. It has nothing to do with DOGE. It's because of I-82, as restaurant owners have said, repeatedly.

Restaurants were crushed by COVID and WFH. Regardless of return to work, those customers haven't come back to the restaurants due to the price increases from inflation and I-82. I-82 wanted to address cost of living, but did it in a way that will never work. Now, DC is giving restaurants money to pay their employees the I-82 wages.

Pure genius.

[Anonymous]

DC has the worst unemployment problem in the country. The number of people who've been out of work for a year plus is appalling. It would be great if our elected leaders could focus on that. They seem incapable of adapting to changed circumstances. Instead they go back to their go-tos, which are raising taxes to finance questionable spending

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DC should be taxed very highly. No one should live in DC unless they're working to support the federal government.

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Anonymous wrote:DC should be taxed very highly. No one should live in DC unless they're working to support the federal government.

Some guy from Georgia weighs in, for some reason. Shouldn't you be fkning your sister?

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DC is already taxed enough. DC pays more per capita in federal taxes than any other state except CT. The 30% spending rise by the DC Council makes me want to throw up. They need to dial back all the pet programs before even considering a tax hike. Unfortunately, it will get substantially worse under a JLG administration.

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Anonymous wrote:DC is already taxed enough. DC pays more per capita in federal taxes than any other state except CT. The 30% spending rise by the DC Council makes me want to throw up. They need to dial back all the pet programs before even considering a tax hike. Unfortunately, it will get substantially worse under a JLG administration.

I think the quality of life in DC has really gone down in the past five years or so. It feels like we are not on a good trajectory, and it will only get worse if JLG is elected. DC needs to chill out with the crazy taxes and crazy spending and focus on economic development. There's a lot of people who need jobs, and a lot of the city that needs revitalization. If only Anthony Williams could run again...

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser tells city council we don't need tax hikes and that it shouldn't make tax policy with zero public input. I think we might miss Bowser when she's gone.

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Couples who make more than $250,000 are rich?

Uh, yes?

A married couple who are both teachers in DCPS, and who have two kids, are rich?

If you think $250k+ household income isn't doing pretty well, I don't know what to tell you.

Tell me you're 21 years old, without telling me you're 21 years old.

Do you have any idea the average/media income in the District of Columbia?

Hint: well below $250k.

This is just an abuse of statistics and also words.

We have a large number of very poor people (18 percent live under the poverty line) which drags down the average. It's totally normal for DCPS teachers to make six figures, so you're basically arguing that a married couple, both of whom teach art to third graders, are rich.

If you're calling them rich, then "rich" has no meaning.

Right, but if we have a lot of poor people, that means people who aren’t poor are rich, for the community — these are inherently relative terms. And the poor people clearly aren’t paying much in taxes.

My household’s income isn’t much more than $250k, and I know a lot of people who make more than we do, but I also understand that we make more than a lot of others in the area.

Obviously there’s a separate conversation to have about at what level it does or doesn’t make sense to raise taxes given the city’s financial situation and the somewhat precarious state of the municipal economy. But that doesn’t mean it’s crazy to say families who make twice the median income are doing pretty well.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser tells city council we don't need tax hikes and that it shouldn't make tax policy with zero public input. I think we might miss Bowser when she's gone.

https://x.com/maustermuhle/status/2061830072856641927/photo/1

Couples who make more than $250,000 are rich?

Uh, yes?

A married couple who are both teachers in DCPS, and who have two kids, are rich?

If you think $250k+ household income isn't doing pretty well, I don't know what to tell you.

Tell me you're 21 years old, without telling me you're 21 years old.

Do you have any idea the average/media income in the District of Columbia?

Hint: well below $250k.

This is just an abuse of statistics and also words.

We have a large number of very poor people (18 percent live under the poverty line) which drags down the average. It's totally normal for DCPS teachers to make six figures, so you're basically arguing that a married couple, both of whom teach art to third graders, are rich.

If you're calling them rich, then "rich" has no meaning.

Right, but if we have a lot of poor people, that means people who aren’t poor are rich, for the community — these are inherently relative terms. And the poor people clearly aren’t paying much in taxes.

My household’s income isn’t much more than $250k, and I know a lot of people who make more than we do, but I also understand that we make more than a lot of others in the area.

Obviously there’s a separate conversation to have about at what level it does or doesn’t make sense to raise taxes given the city’s financial situation and the somewhat precarious state of the municipal economy. But that doesn’t mean it’s crazy to say families who make twice the median income are doing pretty well.

The word 'rich' doesn't mean 'not poor.' Pretending average people are wealthy is silly.

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This all just underscores how out of touch Democratic politicians in the DC government are. Not even Elizabeth Warren would go anywhere near these ideas.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser tells city council we don't need tax hikes and that it shouldn't make tax policy with zero public input. I think we might miss Bowser when she's gone.

https://x.com/maustermuhle/status/2061830072856641927/photo/1

Couples who make more than $250,000 are rich?

Uh, yes?

A married couple who are both teachers in DCPS, and who have two kids, are rich?

If you think $250k+ household income isn't doing pretty well, I don't know what to tell you.

Tell me you're 21 years old, without telling me you're 21 years old.

Do you have any idea the average/media income in the District of Columbia?

Hint: well below $250k.

Average/mean income is stupid when you have such a gigantic percentage of the population that doesn’t work at all.

Median income for the district of Columbia is — you ready? $109k/ yr !!! Multiply that by two and you get 218,000. Which means that two people living together in an apartment making 250,000 or slightly above the median are not “rich.” They’re middle class BY DEFINITION. For DC. Which is a different and much more expensive city than Minot ND and Greenville SC

Errr... The mean household income is $109k. You don't multiply that by two to get the household income.

109k is the median, not the mean.

The person from Fargo upthread said a “couple” — aka, two people — earning 250k a year is “rich.” in DC, that’s the median. 109x2 =218. 218~= 250. Median, median, normal, not an outlier household, median

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Anonymous wrote:DC has the worst unemployment problem in the country. The number of people who've been out of work for a year plus is appalling. It would be great if our elected leaders could focus on that. They seem incapable of adapting to changed circumstances. Instead they go back to their go-tos, which are raising taxes to finance questionable spending

So many of those unemployed were trained for very specific government jobs that are not transferrable to the private sector. What exactly would you have them do?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bowser tells city council we don't need tax hikes and that it shouldn't make tax policy with zero public input. I think we might miss Bowser when she's gone.

https://x.com/maustermuhle/status/2061830072856641927/photo/1

Couples who make more than $250,000 are rich?

Uh, yes?

A married couple who are both teachers in DCPS, and who have two kids, are rich?

If you think $250k+ household income isn't doing pretty well, I don't know what to tell you.

Tell me you're 21 years old, without telling me you're 21 years old.

Do you have any idea the average/media income in the District of Columbia?

Hint: well below $250k.

Average/mean income is stupid when you have such a gigantic percentage of the population that doesn’t work at all.

Median income for the district of Columbia is — you ready? $109k/ yr !!! Multiply that by two and you get 218,000. Which means that two people living together in an apartment making 250,000 or slightly above the median are not “rich.” They’re middle class BY DEFINITION. For DC. Which is a different and much more expensive city than Minot ND and Greenville SC

Errr... The mean household income is $109k. You don't multiply that by two to get the household income.

109k is the median, not the mean.

The person from Fargo upthread said a “couple” — aka, two people — earning 250k a year is “rich.” in DC, that’s the median. 109x2 =218. 218~= 250. Median, median, normal, not an outlier household, median

The median household income in the District of Columbia is $109k. Two people is a household unless they live in separate homes. So, if you have a two member household earning $250k, you are well above the median, i.e., rich.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC has the worst unemployment problem in the country. The number of people who've been out of work for a year plus is appalling. It would be great if our elected leaders could focus on that. They seem incapable of adapting to changed circumstances. Instead they go back to their go-tos, which are raising taxes to finance questionable spending

So many of those unemployed were trained for very specific government jobs that are not transferrable to the private sector. What exactly would you have them do?

Unemployment has been steadily rising since 2022. Long before Trump.