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[quote=Anonymous]Now Andrew Friedson is attacking Will and Evan for voting to raise the recordation tax. I didn’t like that tax increase either.

But here’s the irony: Andrew Friedson and Casey Anderson cooked up a plan to cut impact fees that developers pay and offset those cuts by raising the recordation tax. Friedson sped the impact fee cuts through the council but deferred action on the recordation tax. Because school construction only has two dedicated sources of funding (the recordation tax and impact fees), something had to give later to fund the MCPS capital budget. Friedson wouldn’t support restoring the impact fees so the rest of the council voted to implement the second half of Friedson’s original plan by raising recordation taxes. When school construction costs went up (in part because of a very expensive expansion at Whitman), Friedson gave developers another break on impact fees but didn’t provide any relief on the recordation tax.

This is what you get from Friedson. He talks a good game on taxes, but only developers get tax breaks. Everyone else pays for those tax breaks through higher taxes because government isn’t free. This will be his template as county executive. If having an equitable, progressive tax regime is important to you, vote for Will or Evan. [/quote]

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