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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm a MoCo resident and would rather my tax revenues go to education (even, gasp!, if it goes to supporting Baltimore schools) than expanded highway lanes and corporate welfare to Marriott to move down the street. [/quote]

This isn't about allocating money for education away from transportation. Its about taking education funding away from Montgomery County and giving it to Baltimore instead.

Your non-federal taxes are collected by the state and then re-allocated down to the counties based partly on how much they contributed and other factors. In the Kirwan deal, Montgomery County and Howard would have their education funding cut by up to 70% and have to make up the shortfall with additional  local taxes or local county-based cuts in MCPS, fire, police, etc.

Do you not understand this part?  [/quote]
That’s not the way policy works.  Hogan offered $7 billion in incentives to Amazon.  If he wanted he could allocate plenty of funding to both Baltimore and MoCo.  But his priorities are other...it makes me sad that OP is trying to pit different parts of the state against each other.  We all have an interest in having children in our state having a good education.[/quote]

NP.  This has absolutely nothing to do with Amazon.  It also doesn't have to do with the overall level of funding for education.  It is simply a matter of who gets what percentage of the overall pie.  Especially given all the challenges facing MoCo schools, it seems crazy to shift funding away from them in favor of other areas.[/quote]

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