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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you all seem happy that Hogan is spending our (MC) tax dollars in n other parts of the state?!?  And that's why you ate going to vote for him?

"Maryland continues to offer high quality lifestyle to many residents, with good schools and good amenities."

If you believe our schools are good, and will even stay at the level they are at now when we keep adding thousands of kids each year, with the pitiful funding we get from the state, we are in even bigger trouble than I thought.  Or, your kids are in private and you don't care.  But if you want property values to remain high, the schools have to be good.  And, they've been in a downward slide for many years now. [/quote]

I'm not a resident of MoCo.  And the rest of the state is not as wealthy as MoCo.  Hogan made a campaign promise that he kept; he kept the legislature from increasing taxes in the state and lowered household expenses for many MD families by lowering the tolls.  Had Brown won, he likely would have continued raising taxes as O'Malley had done repeatedly through his tenure in office.   Hogan paid for higher state expenses with the money that was earned by the state from the taxes on a longer summer when he mandated schools start after Labor Day.  Jealous would likely overturn the XO for school starts, which would lose the added revenue for the state from the taxes from the longer summer.

The residents of MoCo have a lot more disposable income than the rest of the state.  MoCo residents may be willing to pay more taxes, but there are many people in the rest of the state that are already pressured by our high tax rate and don't want to fund Jealous' very expensive initiatives or the revenue loss from lost taxes.  [/quote]

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