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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re tax rates: PG county taxes are higher on property, income, and utilities. See http://www.dat.state.md.us/sdatweb/taxrate.html[/quote]

Yes, and they have to be even higher.  If you are poor, almost your entire income needs to go to food, shelter, and education.  So your fractional tax rate has to be very high.  A top teacher doesn't cost less because she/he is teaching in a poor district.  So, to afford her, the residents need a very high tax rate to get same number of dollars that you would get for a low tax rate in a rich county.  It would be great if some rich people moved into PG so that the current PG tax rate would bring in tons of their dollars.  But, that isn't going to happen.  So we in PG have to pay a very high tax rate to afford the good teachers, so that our children will not be as poor as we are.  But the PG residents seem to think either the rich will just volunteer to send their money to PG or seem satisfied that their children will not receive the education they need to move up.[/quote]

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