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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More to the left. People start fleeing high taxes, rising crime, and declining schools.  Zero economic growth as usual as high taxes, insane amounts of red tape to start a business continue, and the hostile environment in MoCo towards business gets worse.  The only solution MoCo pols will have for an eroding tax base and declining revenue will e to keep raising taxes, which will keep encouraging people to leave even faster and kick off an irreparable death spiral.

Basically, the Baltimoreification of MoCo has already been started and will never stop.  Ironically, when things decline due to crap policies, the tendency is to get even more stubborn and triple down on the same failed strategies even harder.  MoCo is doomed to a far left decimation of public safety, quality in schools, SFH owner's rights, and tax burden. [/quote]

And we all know what "the Baltimoreification of MoCo" means!!!!!

The more the people who wish it were still 1975 in Montgomery County move away from Montgomery County, the happier everyone will be.[/quote]

Yes, we know it means massive tax hikes, a huge number of fleeing businesses and population. Just like what happened in the Baltimore in the 90s. MoCo is copying Baltimore from the 90s to a T.[/quote]

What "massive tax hikes" in Baltimore in the 1990s?

Baltimore started losing businesses and population after 1950, thanks to federal policies that subsidized suburbanization for white people - plus block-busting, of course.[/quote]

Yeah, that's because Baltimore increased taxes 20+ times over that time period, which caused a lot of business and population loss.  That's why a Baltimore resident currently pays the same amount of total property tax on a home only worth $400-500k as the total amount of property tax rich people in $1M+ homes in Bethesda pay.  MoCo keeps raising taxes and is on the path to becoming Baltimore. [/quote]

What "massive tax hikes" in Baltimore in the 1990s?[/quote]

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