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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand how a revenie cap works in a county that is always growing.  When the school system grows by 2K kids a year.  The population grows every year.  Limiting the reveue makes no sense.   More people means we need more services etc.  I assume with no increased revenue there will be no additional schools, roads, extra police and fire for the growing population???[/quote]

MCPS enrollment declined by over 3k this year.  It's not a hard revenue cap, inflation is the limit.  Moco, due to its economic policies, isn't growing faster than the rate of inflation, so the property taxes shouldn't increase over the rate of inflation either.  There will still be enough for schools, roads, police, and fire, if they reallocate those funds from somewhere else.  Looking at the county's budget online, there's a lot of generic, vague descriptions of where the money is going.

If Moco is supposedly growing faster than the rate of inflation, then why is our tax base supposedly getting smaller?  [/quote]

But this is not a typical year for MCPS and we all know it is distance learning related.  Forget the schools, just look at regular population growth.  Inflation does not cover adding more people to the equation.  Inflation just means that you are paying more for what you had before.  It does not include needing more on top of that.  When they built out Clarksburg, they need more firefighters, they need more road maintenance., on and on.[/quote]

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