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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.arlnow.com/2024/11/27/arlington-county-forecasting-30-40-million-budget-gap/

The situation is dire, and higher taxes are on the way.[/quote]

There are over 100K households in Arlington.

$40M amortized across 100K households is $400 -- not a trivial amount, but relatively small compared to Arlington's average household income. [/quote]

And the wealthier households will shoulder more of this b/c their homes are more expensive.

I’m totally ok paying more to have nice amenities. I know people on here love to hate on Arlington, but the reality is a lot of people want to live here.[/quote]

How much more are you willing to pay for the same quality of public services?[/quote]

DC resident here:
Arlington is clean, safe, convenient. People will pay a lot for that. The county needs to also engage in some belt tightening to show that its just all about cutting taxes. And maybe automatically sunset the tax hike in four years. [/quote]
The government isn’t the reason that it’s clean and safe. The people that live there are the reason why clean and safe. So paying higher taxes to the government for an externality that the government has no influence over makes no sense. [/quote]

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