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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on [b]performative virtue signaling[/b] catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population,  and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made [/quote]

I really have no clue what this means (and I'm a MoCo resident), but I think you might be reading and watching too much right-wing media. MoCo is actually a leader in health sciences, pharma, and biomedical research, and there is tons of business formation around those industries. That might not be as splashy as Amazon, but Amazon wants to eliminate basically all jobs in favor of AI, so I'm fine with MoCo not catering to different industries besides tech and data centers.[/quote]

There is more in Virginia than Amazon. Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Falls Church City were ranked higher in per capita income way before data centers and Amazon. Montgomery County started going down the tubes 10-15 years ago.

And this has nothing to do with “right wing media.” Angela Alsobrooks is 1,000x the leader that that bozo Elrich is. She and her predecessors have made PG County much nicer and more prosperous than it was in the 90s and the early 2000s. Ehrlich has done the opposite. Same thing with Arlington’s leadership and Arlington votes at least 80/20 Dem. It’s about competency and vision, not politics. Stop spinning your County lagging behind literally every other jurisdiction in the DMV, including PG County, in becoming nicer and welcoming more investment since the 80s and 90s. [/quote]

This isn’t on Elrich. Ironically, it’s the fault of the people who have been the loudest about promoting growth. Those are the people who have actually set growth policy for 20 years and counting. Elrich has always been on the losing side.

The problem is the smart growth crowd focused on the wrong things and none of the things they did focus on actually worked the way they said they would. [/quote]

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