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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most people are for paying teachers well.   MCPS does pay its teachers well, but I think many people would still be OK with a raise.

But the central office and admin growth has been unreal, and no one has ever called him (Elrich), or MCPS out about this. [/quote]

I hope there's a successful legal challenge to his attempt to use this loophole. You can't just keep raising taxes on residents. There's no effort to reign in rampant malfeasance in MCPS or the runaway growth of Central Office jobs. Also, he isn't doing more to grow the economic base but instead just throws up his hands and causes harm to the county's future with his irresponsible tax and spend policy. Wish we could recall him.[/quote]

The frustrating part to me is this 10% tax hike is explicitly being stated as "because of inflation".

OK, thats true!  It's a real thing, for sure.   But to treat the county taxpayers as an endless ATM as if we are also not personally affected by said inflation in basically every cost- is just so insulting. [/quote]

Property values have increased because of this inflation, granting them comparable tax revenue increases so a hike is unnecessary.  Further, the problem is that Elrich has no interest in addressing MCPS's irresponsible spending on foolish initiatives and their endless hiring of more Central Office administrators.[/quote]

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