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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I agree with the above poster. If MOCO would stop chasing out businesses due to its business unfriendly climate, you would get a bigger commercial tax base and you wouldn't be facing this problem. Fairfax County was able to afford its world class education system because of the additional commercial tax base and not just relying on residential. Hope they don't turn into MOCO![/quote]

10-15 years ago there was no reason why Silver Spring/Wheaton couldn't have become the success story that Arlington is now enjoying. If our County Council hadn't been so idiotic there would be far more balance between the east and west and a much healthier tax base. Montgomery County was too far beyond Tysons to compete with their tech sector growth there but losing the rest to Howard county??? Geez, businesses only went further out to Howard because Montgomery County was so impossible.

The biggest irony is that Leggett's position has always been to hold back commercial development while he scows around on his transportation pet projects. Well, now that Ike has lost all the businesses everyone is commuting out of Montgomery County to go to work and the traffic is getting far worse than if the business had been here with the existing transportation!! I know so many people who are leaving Montgomery County because their jobs are in Howard, DC or VA and the traffic is unbearable. These are people that make a healthy salary and a big loss to the tax base.

MCPS is just as stupid. There is no one in MCPS that is remotely qualified to even understand a 2.3 billion dollar budget yet alone manage it. [/quote]

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