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Supply and demand. Market forces.  Less demand  =  lower prices = lower property taxes.

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How many rich people do you think there are who are going to move to Fairfax (?) or Howard (?) if MCPS proposes to fiddle with the boundaries of Whitman a bit?

If there really were enough rich people moving out of $1.5 million houses in the western close-in suburbs to Ellicott City or Leesburg or some such (though why would they do that?), there would be lots of people happy to move in. The quality of life in Montgomery County would improve.[/quote]

That's a complete straw man.  Who says that they are going to move to Fairfax or Howard?  They would likely move to McLean, Arlington, or AU Park.

If you are zoned for Whitman, you could move 10-15 minutes away and be in either close-in VA or in DC.  Someone's commute will be at worst the same and may actually be better.  If someone is in private school anyway, their kids wouldn't even have to change schools.  Why wouldn't a lot of people do that if the tax disparity becomes too great?

And it is not just people who would move from Bethesda to VA/DC, it is also people who would never come to Bethesda in the first instance.  If more people choose VA/DC, property values (and therefore property taxes) will decrease and you won't have the benefit of income tax from those people easier.

Without this revenue, it is hard to see how the quality of life in MoCo would improve because we wouldn't have the funds to pay for parks, schools, immigrant support, etc.[/quote]

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