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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh you die hard limousine liberals are so holier than thou!

I am not for a tax break or saying the neediest schools should go without-simply that Cluster 1 deserves their fair share of lower class sizes and resources too! I am all for a meals tax to raise revenues, but I do pay my fair share of property taxes and my kids schools shouldn't always get the short end of the stick just because my school board representative thinks I am "wealthy" and can afford to supplement everything the schools lack. So there![/quote]

There's nothing holier than thou in pointing out what it really means when some of the richest people in the county clamor for their "fair share," while steadfastly refusing to pay for it.  [/quote]

You must be joking.  So it's somehow ok for us to pay exorbitant taxes, yet not see any benefit for our own kids?  Gotcha.[/quote]

They are not exorbitant.  1% of property value is squarely in the middle, and at the low end if you want decent local services.

The real issue is that there are more students in Fairfax public schools [i]as a percentage of the total population[/i] than there are in neighboring districts.  This is true wherever in the county you live.  This means that we have to spend more as a percentage of our tax base to provide similar services.  For example in Arlington, the percentage of the population in public schools is less than 10%, in Fairfax it is nearly 17%.  Families with children, regardless of income, are the population problem.  We need more dinks and that takes time.  We should put a moratorium on the building of more single family houses  and concentrate on building the kind of housing that attracts dinks.  Until then, we need to pay more taxes to pay for our schools, we are a wealthy county, we can afford it. [/quote]

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