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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question B allows the county to push back on the unions. The unions don't want an income tax hike but don't care about a property tax increase. No property tax increase = no money to keep giving the unions whatever they want.  Its the only way to a balanced budget.

I also find it amazing that the Elrich supporters seem to think that a property tax really only hurts millionaires living in Potomac. Newsflash but the multi-millionaires living in Potomac do not care about a big hike in property tax and there are not many of them in the count much toward the revenues.

The vast majority of property in MOCO is in the 300K-under 1M bucket. A big hike in property will hurt them. It will r educe the numbers of buyers because people stretching to afford a home will need to reduce their house buying budget to meet the debt to income threshold with higher property taxes. It will price seniors out of their homes or cut substantially into their retirement savings. [/quote]

The county can't raise the income tax.  The property tax is it's main source of revenue.  If question B passes make no mistake the rate will go down every year unless the housing market crashes and thus will affect public services including schools, roads and public safety.  The county has very limited options for raising revenues to make up for that loss.[/quote]

They can cut unnecessary expenses. The hazard pay essential employees received should had been much less and stopped when the state moved to phase 2. Bloated pensions and salaries need to be cut. salary freezes. get rid of bogus positions. Stop giving money to developers. If the county wasnt so wasteful, people would be more.supportive of a tax increase.for essential services.[/quote]

Forced caps on admin positions at the CO. Amyway, I'd rather not vote for B but I don't think we can otherwise trust the council to reign in spending. As to C and D, they sound all well and good but C just create new council and staff positions and will add millions in administrative overheads, I'm voting against that too. D will probably result ins some net savings but still not sure this change is beneficial so why vote for it.[/quote]

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