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Sure, if this tax increase would mean my child had greater access to expanded specialty programs and universal Pre-K, I'd be all over it.  But I'm with the PG residents who view this proposal with a healthy dose of skepticism.  [b]We are already the highest taxed municipality in the region, and what do we have to show for it?[/b]
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I recommend that we stop using this fact.  As I pointed out earlier, while we have the highest percentage tax, we still pay significantly less in actual total dollars than Montgomery County due to the fact that our housing prices are lower.  We have 90% of the population that MoCo has, yet we only pay 48% of the real dollars in property taxes that they do.  And not all of those dollars go to education.  So we pay higher relative to the cost of our property, but lower than they do.  So, either you need to accept that the lower property taxes mean that less money goes into improving our schools or you need to accept that you need to pay more into the system to get a better school system.  You can't complain that we have higher percentage tax rates, but we put less money into the system and our schools are worse than Montgomery County.  Either we put in more money to the school system or we accept that we have a weaker school system.

I for one, want to see a better school system.  I'm willing to pay a few hundred dollars more a year to see improvement in our schools, which, in turn, will improve property values.[/quote]

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