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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enough with the posts griping that gymnastics only serves young people.

I understand that retirees have paid taxes their entire working lives, but guess what — that money has all been spent. It’s not there anymore. The services they receive (social security, Medicare, subsidized property taxes, etc) all comes from current taxpayers.

Now, this shouldn’t be a problem, except there are so effing many old people, and the birth rate has been in steady decline for a long time now. There aren’t as many people paying into these programs, and the number of people receiving benefits is HUGE.

Not to mention, the world literally shut down to keep you safe during COVID. Young people had to shutter businesses. Kids didn’t attend school for years! These things have catastrophic effects for entire lives. Perhaps old people should have been asked to stay home instead…

We can’t keep sacrificing the quality of life of all young people. Sometimes senior citizens need to take their turn.

Keep the gymnastics center. Raise fees if needed, especially for the competitive programs.

Not one more post about achy joints. That’s just part of life.[/quote]

I'm sorry, but your argument is that old people don't deserve services because achy joints are "just a part of life" but apparently having access to a top notch and heavily subsidized competitive gymnastics program is essential for kids? In a county that already has a ton of sports programming for kids?Nope, and you don't get to just ignore the needs of other citizens. You'll be old one day, too.

Also, you sound like an idiot. The county doesn't pay for social security -- old people paid for it, already! And arguing that old people are exclusively to blame for Covid closures in some kind of protracted argument on behalf of Bancroft is almost too stupid for words. But obviously plenty of young people participated in those decisions, and plenty of older people were among the businesses that shuttered due to shutdowns. Go get some actual facts and come back to us.[/quote]

Go back and read. I said raise gymnastics fees if necessary.

And yes, they already paid into entitlements, but I addressed this above as well. The. Money. Is. Gone. All current funding of federal/state/local programs comes from those who are currently working, and the birth rate is way down (largely in part due to decisions made by previous generations that have made life prohibitively expensive!).

The massive aging population is getting a piggyback ride from generations that are much smaller in number. Cuts need to be made — in their direction.[/quote]

Cuts need to be made all around, and Grandma’s heirs need to pay back taxes on the $2m property she bought for $15k back in 1970 and that they inherited on a step up basis.

Our commercial past is behind us, Trump and the GOP have killed the federal government and are selling off what’s left to their buddies from Epstein Island. We need to pay for the things we want now. Including apparently $1.6m+ in staff costs alone for a gymnastics program. [/quote]

People already pay taxes on what they inherit.

But yeah, stop subsidizing property taxes for the elderly. If they can’t afford current rates for their 4 bedroom home, it’s time to downsize or move farther out. Zero sympathy when appropriate sized housing is unaffordable for families with actual children who need that space. (And their parents need to live in Arlington to be closer to work.) Ol’ Betty can watch her re-runs anywhere, not just in Arlington.[/quote]

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