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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More on the losses due to people leaving.

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2023/11/01/exodus-from-moco-part-two/[/quote]

Dunno about you, but I think the purpose of county government is to serve [u]people[/u], not tax returns or real AGI.[/quote]

Dunno where you went to school but no services without the cash.[/quote]

Do you have any evidence that the county is losing any money [i]as a result of[/i] people leaving?[/quote]

DP.  Would be nice if you [i]addressed[/i] the issues raised instead of continually questioning them.  Just makes you sound like you don't want to face reality if that hurts your particular interest.

Whether or not there is wealth flight, which has been shown time and again to lead to a deterioration of municipal services, there certainly is a school overcrowding issue.  The proposed law allows further crowding without requiring steps to remediate that additional crowding.

Wealthy areas are more insulated from the potential effect of this bill than less wealthy areas, given rail proximity and likely geographic application of the other two categories (prior state land & nonprofit land).  Schools there are also more likely to be:

Less overcrowded in the first place,

Better supported financially by the community, ameliorating some of the possible effect, and

Politically connected to reduce eventual inpact.

Suggesting that this should go through for housing, and that a separate effort should be made to remediate the infrastructure, both ignores the great hurdle of that required advocacy (given the already great difficulty in achieving success, there, over the past few decades) and misses the opportunity to achieve a more holistic solution.  In the meantime, it will be the already overcrowded, less wealthy areas that will bear the brunt of this lack of foresight.  Inequity coming from those claiming to be supporting equity in the first place.

Fix the bill.  Then pass it.[/quote]

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