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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There will need to be a combination of cuts and tax increases. If you look at the report, the data on age concentration and income is scary. The area around Potomac/Bethesda just past the Beltway near River Road has the highest incomes and the aging populations. If a number of those people move into retirement from their senior high income positions there is an immediate drop in revenue. From the retired population, if they start to move their residency to Florida then there is a huge drop. They won't be selling their home so there will not be a new replacement family coming in but the income will be gone for MoCo.

MCPS isn't doing the county any favors either. All the talk of changing the boundaries, breaking up the W schools, diluting magnets, and bussing kids is scaring off new professionals from buying in MoCo. [/quote]

Additional taxes in MoCo is exactly what MoCo should not do.  If you are retired and wealthy, you would be an idiot to remain in MoCo.  Increasing taxes in the midst of an economic simply reflects the failure to be realistic and budget appropriately.  MoCo leaders must make more budget cuts, radical ones.  MoCo already has the highest tax burden in the DMV.[/quote]

WRONG!!!!!

If you can’t justify raising taxes in a wealthy county during a booming economy (thank you President Obama) then WHEN and WHERE CAN you raise them!?!?

Stop with the chamber of commerce republican talking points. County taxes need to go up. A LOT. Double would be a good start. Triple would be even better.  There’s just too much at stake not to raise them. Economic justice depends on leveling the playing field, and the best way to do that is by having those with more, pay more, so that those with less, can also have more. [/quote]

Many of the people you are advocating raising taxes on are not wealthy . They are middle class people struggling to pay off house and student loans, send their kids to college, support a SN child and an elderly relative and pay their crazy high taxes. Your presumption that we are all  wealthy is ignorant and short sighted.
Raising funds via a better business climate in the county and a reduction in spending and costs is in order.

It’s nice  that you are rich - whoopie for you - but most of the rest of the county (people outside your neighborhood)  is not.[/quote]

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