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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually that’s where you are wrong. Developers and the county itself would love to purchase the 8 acres of land in MoCo. I’m worried there may be other wealthy families in the county who would leave for VA or DC if Ben Jealous is elected. I’m going to cautiously put in my vote for Hogan too. We cannot support higher taxes in this state without a booming private sector business. I do wish Amazon came to MoCo or the state of MD in general. [/quote]

If Jealous is governor and Elrich is MoCo exec, there is less than zero chance amazon comes here. It will be extremely tough to draw any other new business here and long odds in keeping the few businesses that are still remaining. The higher earning and upper middle class residents will be forced to keep shouldering more and more of the burden with fewer benefits in the name of social justice and they too will start moving across the river. This is not speculation. This is what’s been happening the past decade or so based on all recent studies of the county’s economics ([b]stagnant at best, sharply declining at worst[/b]) and demographics ([b]newer residents are less wealthy than residents leaving the county[/b]). The only question was: are we going to continuing the policies that led to this, and perhaps even double-down on them with an Elrich/Jealous combo? [/quote]

1. That was a pretty shoddy study
2. Newer residents are also younger than residents leaving the county

Don’t be dense. The combo referenced in the post is obviously “elrich as MoCo exec and jealous as governor”. Do you always need everything spelled out for you. And yes, bury your head in the sand about the direction of the county, just like Elrich and most of the other sitting council members. Easier to blame a study (as if that were the one and only outlying source for the gloomy economic projections for MoCo), than to admit there may be problems. And in Arlington and Fairfax Co, is it also the case that newer residents moving in are poorer than residents moving out? If it merely boils down to younger v. older residents, then surely those jurisdictions should show the same trend.

Also, there isn't going to be an Elrich/Jealous combination. Ben Jealous already has a running mate for lieutenant governor, and it's not Marc Elrich. Meanwhile, Marc Elrich is running for executive of Montgomery County, not king of Montgomery County. Who decides about taxes in Montgomery County? Not the county executive. The county council does.[/quote][/quote]

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