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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have no job, you may find you can't afford Fairfax County in general, not just the tax hike.  Then you think about selling your house and moving to something cheaper (which is also $$ but sometimes the best thing to do when the world changes on you.)[/quote]

It's not like DH will be unemployed indefinitely.  But he was for 2 months this year, as will be MANY residents in Fairfax County.  So it's pretty disingenuous for elected folks to pretend to care about the layoffs in 2025 at the same time as sticking us with an extra $500+/month bill.  That's a car payment.

Maybe DOGE should look at FCPS spending as a federal funds recipient.  Why has their budget exploded since 2019?  We all know teacher salaries didn't double and new schools aren't popping up everywhere.  They are bursting at the seams.  What in tarnation is going on?[/quote]

Subsidized housing through zoning and other twisting of the free market is a big part of the problem.  it encourage people who can't afford to live in the County, to live in the County.  Their income levels result in them paying little in the way of taxes, while disproportionally consuming public services.  Who then pays for the public services?

Vote out the free-spending Democrats who make up almost all of the County Board of Supervisors.    [/quote]

The county isn’t funded by income taxes. [/quote]

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