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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Andrew Friedson is sponsoring a bill that would use state school construction money to reduce tax rates for housing developers. In the bill, the impact tax owed by developers would be reduced by the amount of state aid that went toward school construction in previous years, meaning that the county would be using state aid to reduce taxes paid by developers instead of using it to build schools.

This tax cut would come on the heels of tax cuts in 2020 and 2023, which Friedson also strongly supported. The previous tax cuts contributed to falling impact tax revenue and shortfalls in the MCPS construction budget that forced cuts to the Woodward project and delays in renovations at Damascus and Magruder.

The latest proposal has strong support from land use attorneys who have been among Friedson’s biggest donors. Previous tax cut proposals favoring developers have passed the council unanimously or nearly unanimously even though Planning has failed to demonstrate that they were effective in causing housing prices to fall or construction to increase.

So much for prioritizing education.

You can read the bill here (Sec. 52-55(d)(3)):

https://montgomerycountymd.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=169&event_id=16241&meta_id=183002[/quote]

It’s shocking the way he ran and presented himself versus the progressive agenda that he pushes. We voted for the guy based on being a left of center democrat, and now he’s engaged in yet another progressive Friedson Folly.[/quote]

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