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DP. Immigrants do pay taxes, and the PP was wrong to suggest otherwise.  But you should also acknowledge that the average immigrant is going to have a lower income and own/rent a less valuable property -- which lead to lower income and property taxes respectively -- than the average M/UMC professional.  So [b]to the extent the M/UMC professional decides to leave the County and is replaced by an immigrant[/b], the overall tax base with decrease.  So either the level of services provided by the county will have to be reduced or the tax rates on those remaining in the county will have to increase.[/quote]

Lots of immigrants are middle-class/wealthy professionals. Lots of middle-class/wealthy professionals are immigrants.

Boiled down, the thinking seems to be: if MCPS tries to move kids in the Whitman cluster to schools with more poor, brown kids, then their parents are going to leave Montgomery County for [somewhere], and that would be bad for Montgomery County, so we shouldn't do that.[/quote]

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