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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is zero chance that MoCo will not lose its taxpaying and upper income citizens because of this change.  What is even stupid is that MoCo has plenty of underutilized commercial land that can be converted to housing of multiple types.  Much of that land will never be office or retail.[/quote]

I think that they are ok with that.  What they lose in quality they plan to make up for in volume.[/quote]

How so?  [b]More volume of poverty and social needs[/b] who take more in tax expenditures then they can possibly pay in tax is a net negative.  MoCo is going the way of Baltimore where they mane it extremely difficult to do business and drive out everyone with means who actually make up the bulk of the tax base.  The area will crumble when all of the taxpayers who can pay taxes leave.  You cannot make up tax revenues from a $250k household by bringing in 5 $50k households to replace.  The $50k households will barely pay tax and require all sorts of subsidies, vouchers for lunches and will likely pay $0 in income taxes after all of the write offs and deductions.  The county will get more poor with more volume, because the volume is going to come from poverty and low income households. [/quote]

The family moving into a duplex or triplex is not living in poverty.  Those homes will still cost around 500K minimum.  They will pay taxes, or the landlord will pay taxes.[/quote]

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