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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't like Friedson bc he totally protected Potomac (his hometown) ONLY with some other stuff months back.

However, he is one of the only 2 sane people who voted against this absolute bs.

So ppl making just over 150k as a family are gonna get socked with more taxes plus the credit is eliminated, SO THAT MCPS CAN CONTINUE TO BE ENABLED TO BE INCOMPETENT.

Great.

I am DONE with all the other council members including Evan Glass.  byeeeeeee

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Friedson voted for all the spending. He would rather fund the green bank than let people keep more of their money. Same with Glass. The only executive candidate that put forward a budget without a property tax increase for anyone was Jawando. His colleagues couldn’t stand the idea of giving him a win so they never really considered it. [/quote]

They never considered Jawando's proposal because it wasn't a good proposal. Many elements were unwise or simply not doable. But at least he tried. Fani-Gonzalez is the only one who stepped up with a workable proposal.[/quote]

Fani-Gonzalez also proposed cuts that didn’t work, and her tax plan created some problems this year and will create many more problems in future years. It’s fine to disagree with how someone cuts spending. Propose alternatives. Mink, Stewart, and Jawando were serious people on this budget.

People who didn’t propose alternatives are not serious people. I am especially disappointed in Friedson, who engaged very little and was frequently corrected on the facts by department staff and his colleagues when he did engage. He looked like a total joke. He advocated for more spending than he opposed and pontificated about taxes. He lacks either the maturity or the intellect to be executive. [/quote]

I understand you love the ITOC but you don't understand why Jawando's plan was not workable on a completely different level[/quote]

Jawando’s plan cut spending growth to 4.2 percent. If you can’t figure out a way to get by on a 4.2 percent spending growth, you’re not working hard enough. This kind of can’t-do attitude is why the budget is a mess. But hey at least we’re still dropping $20 million on the green bank. [/quote]
Most of the cuts he recommended involved essentially kicking the can down the road. Stuff that needs to be done and if it waits will end up costing more. Some were quite non specific, others were simply not permissible under the county code.

I agree that proposing something is better than nothing, but in no way was his proposal one worth considering.[/quote]

Sorry how is that different from what they ended up doing? They used one-time money to fund the operating budget and deferred school HVAC maintenance, among other things. They also passed a tax plan that makes a married couple earning more than $75k pay a higher marginal income tax rate than they do today. That same couple couldn’t even afford to rent one of the “workforce housing units” without being rent burdened.

There were some good and bad cuts in the Jawando budget. He expressed a willingness to cut a lot more on the record than either of his two opponents and showed a better grasp of the details during the hearings. [/quote]

Not that poster but they back themselves into a corner by approving all the salary and benefit increases in the collective bargaining agreements.  There were few good cuts in Jawando's proposal.  And of the ones that were good, he never moved to cut them.  It was very odd.

Without a robust local media, you all will have to do the work and read reports and listen to hearings. Most of them have a very superficial understanding of what's really going on. They may present like they are super knowledgable. Key word, "present."[/quote]

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