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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a tax liberals never like?

It is always a taxation problem, never a spending problem.  $150,000 isn’t even a lot of money in 2026.  They are raising taxes on the middle class. Taxes keep going up, but incomes don't. Maybe the county govt needs to learn to live within its means like all of its residents.  Cut jobs, freeze pay increases for the next 5 years, cut pensions, cut benefits and force employees to pay more for their own healthcare.   You know, the same crap 99% of Americans face who have jobs outside of the county govt.[/quote]

Elrich as county executive has been robbing Peter to pay Paul in his budgets for years. There are so many structural defects now, that as the council tries to cut line item by line item, it's discovering that it's not so easy to find cuts in inadequately funded budgets. Go look at all the supplemental appropriations needed to pay for known services that he didn't pay for up front. Go look at the year end transfers as he switched funding among all the departments, again, because many were budgeted inaccurately.

Council is at fault too because they never bother to correct things. The easiest and most prudent thing would have been to hold COLAS at 2%. Employees will still get a huge raise. Just not quite as huge. It would have slowed spending and made the fiscal cliff the county faces in FY28 more manageable. But council is a bunch of cowards. They are doing whatever feels publicly expedient to make constituents happy. The "feel good" votes instead of the "good government" votes.  They are cowards and disgusting to watch [/quote]

There are too many structural deficits now.  This bill makes the structural deficit worse.  Next year will be another property tax rate increase or they'll compress the income tax brackets again so they're not progressive.

The council -- every member -- voted to approve the labor agreements.  They need to honor those agreements now, as much as I agree that they were irresponsible in the first place.

There aren't great options for county executive.  Friedson is a hard no because he keeps exempting his donors from paying property taxes.  That leaves Glass and Jawando.  Glass has followed along with Friedson and doesn't seem to engage on the budget much.  His two big issues in seven years were no right on red and leaf blowers.  Jawando is too far left but he did good work on the budget this year and has been the driving force on slowing spending growth this year, much more so than the other members.[/quote]

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