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All of VA gets to vote if Arlington incorporates, not just Arlington and there fat chance in hell of it happening. That is part of arlingtons problem. It is just a piggy bank for the rest of Va. and it doesn’t have the authority to change that. One of the reasons it has such a high sales tax because VA gets its cut and they have to do additional. People say Arlington taxes are low unless you count the weird car personal property taxes, the high sales taxes, the low percentage but high assessment property taxes  :roll: [/quote]

IIUC independent cities in Virginia do not get relief from any state taxes.  I don't think Alexandria or Falls Church, both independent Cities do.  The differences, IIUC, are that Cities get a bit more autonomy on some local ordinances than Counties do, and they automatically control their own roads other than highways (but Arlington, like Henrico, already controls most of their own streets) I guess the Cities get a bit larger share of the tax revenue to cover the added street maintenance costs - IIRC there was a debate about this for Fairfax a few years back and they decided to remain a County, not a City, because they thought building a big enough transport dept to build and maintain local streets was a bigger challenge than the BOS wanted to handle.  [/quote]

Perhaps PP is getting "incorporate as a City" confused with "secede from Virginia"?  [/quote]

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