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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, did you campaign for the meals tax? Folks couldn't bring themselves to pay a few cents more at a restaurant (which would also be paid by people who live outside the county). Such a shame because it would have generated well over $70 million in revenue for FCPS and programs like tour beloved summer school.

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A "few cents" more?  You're bad at math.  Maybe summer school would have helped.[/quote]

It would have added 4 cents to every dollar. A $10 meal would have cost 40 additional cents in taxes.

I'm not the PP, just stating what it would have added.[/quote]

Well, 40 cents is more than a "few."  Those in their white UMC bubbles have a hard time grasping what extra costs mean for a lot of people.[/quote]

The tax wasn't a tax on groceries.  No one was being taxed on food to feed their families.

However, lets be honest.  If a family can afford a $10 meal at a restaurant, they can afford 40 cents in taxes.   If they are one of the families of the 57,000 children in FCPS schools who live at or below the poverty level, 40 cents is not going to make or break their desire to eat out.  Either they can, or they can't. Its not an additional $4, which can be a hardship.  Its not even an extra dollar, which is excessive.  However 40 cents is a very small amount of money.

The meals taxes in pretty much every other jurisdiction have proven that this is correct.  Lower income families aren't avoiding--for instance--Fairfax City because of their meals tax.  You don't see families choosing to eat in Burke vs Fairfax to avoid a tax, do you?[/quote]

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