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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it's not. It's a gross oversimplification.

I don't want to live in a county where the #1 priority is bringing in businesses so they can pay taxes and hire more people to pay taxes. All that does is cause runaway sprawl and overdevelopment. Businesses aren't a community. Businesses don't like paying fair wages. Businesses don't care about the environment. Businesses don't care about schools. Businesses don't care about the homeless. Businesses don't care about getting rid of guns. Businesses don't care about affordable low income housing. All businesses care about is making money. And keeping money by paying as few taxes as possible.

Instead of luring businesses in, we should be asking the wealthy in Montgomery county to pay their fair share. Sorry, but if your HHI is over $100K, you need to be carrying more of the burden, because you're not doing enough.

The county's biggest problem is we have cowards who won't stand up to the rich and demand they pay their fair share. That's how you fix this. [/quote]

This has got to be one of the most clueless posts I've ever read on this site, and that's saying something. This has pretty much been the attitude in MoCo for the last decade. How's it working out for you?

Besides, no one had said business is the only solution. As PP said, we used to get by on the strength of our school system. Problem is, we can't count on that anymore. Do you deny that MCPS is sliding? Any brilliant plans for fixing it? Or do you honestly think raising taxes while providing a decreasing quality of education is going to entice wealthy people to stick around? [/quote]

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