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If you prefer living somewhere where you need to pay for every single separate service, like garbage removal, and where schools are cesspools with no decent curriculum, and where there are no social services for the poor, and no money for cultural endeavors and libraries, then by all means, move to a lower-tax state.

What you may not perceive from your vantage point of self-absorption, is that the more taxes are spent to benefit the population and lift up those with needs, the safer and better-off everyone is... even the ones who are not recipients of some of these services. Otherwise you let inequality fester, and all the problems it entails.[/quote]

Inequality will fester here regardless since it’s a sanctuary county and disproportionate destination for the world’s downtrodden.[/quote]

MoCo certainly should take care of our lower income citizens, but MoCo needs to be realistic here.  Overly generous benefits are simply attracting more lower income citizens.  And MoCo can't solve the poverty issue for mankind.  And, yes, people do move for financial reasons, including govt programs.[/quote]

The planning department said itself MoCo is attracting an outsized share of low income people as new residents. I am not at all against services and housing for low income people, I live down the street from a subsidized apartment building and it's fine, this isn't about being a NIMBY, but the county budget can't expand indefinitely to serve these people. The rest of the region needs to carry the load as well. As it is they are instead attracting all the jobs.[/quote]

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