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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many people think they have the solution to the problem.  Have you approached your school boards or the government with these solutions?[/quote]

I have personally spoken with Jeff McKay (Board of Supervisor) about it. His response was lukewarm--"we tried one 20 years ago and it failed. It takes years to educate citizens on voting on meals tax...." It was a pretty weak answer. I think that more folks need to approach the Board of Supervisors (NOT the board of education--they do not set taxes) about this. We need elected officials who can have the guts to do the right thing and raise some taxes. There is no way we can continue to think that we'll get the same with less. [/quote]

Some of us citizens, even with children, do not want a meals tax.

Raise property taxes, put in casinos, raise regular food taxes, I don't care, but I DO NOT want a meals tax.

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Because it's a progressive tax?  Just curious why you are open to other taxes but not that.[/quote]

I said this in another thread:

[i]I'd support a meals tax in special business districts, like Tyson's, where there are thousands of non-Fairfax residents eating every day.

But otherwise, I am friendly with several local restaurant owners, I love my local restaurants and bars, and they don't deserve an arbitrary extra tax placed on their goods and services. Why not have a barber tax? Why not have an accountant tax? Why not a car wash tax? It is the local, small restaurant owners that are not serving thousands of out-of-county residents every day that will feel the pinch. My husband and I take our kid out to eat I don't know, once or twice a week at times - it is truly an enjoyable experience, and we'd feel a pang of annoyance if we saw a 10% tax bill every time we got the check. Meals taxes work better in Arlington and DC because they have a LOT of out of towners eating there every single day.

Honestly, this is really unpopular, but I think that if the state raised the food tax 1%, the state and county could make a killing. As much as my husband and I spend on restaurant eating, our grocery bill dwarfs that bill exponentially. But, that is considered a regressive tax.

And I don't like that in many locales, we are approaching upon Canadian and European level taxes of consumables. [/i][/quote]

There is a meals tax in Vienna and the businesses there seem to do fine. It can be a 1-2% meals tax which still goes a long way to paying for the needs of the county.[/quote]

And I had lunch and dinner in Vienna many times when I was working in Tyson's. They are prudent to take advantage of being adjacent to a large business district, and I think that Tyson's could bear a meals tax as well.

I will vote down a county-wide meals tax, though.[/quote]

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