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The ‘Council’ is awful and is why the county is a run down dysfunctional mess. Thankfully a lot of the ‘Council’ will now be different - no more Leaventhal and  Roger Berliner (who did absolutely nothing for Bethesda except add traffic & F$&@ things up), right? But you’ll still have Nancy Navarro ‘crying on the dais’ to get more benefits for our noncitizen friends in Silver Spring and Wheaton via cutting benefits to us ‘rich’ people who can’t pay out of pocket for the schooling for our kids and things like Rec centers,  right? & Hans? 
The MoCo Council is just a big clown car nonsensical money grabbing misery. [/quote]

Op here and asking in earnest.

What *actually* would you like to see, here, in local government? I'm assuming your're Republican/right-leaning unaffiliated or fiscally conservative Democrat of some kind. What kind of council/executive would you want?

I've spoken with Elrich at length about this race. Despite what some want you to believe, he does not want to raise your taxes, property or otherwise. He wants small businesses to thrive. He wants Amazon to come here. He wants to grow our tax base to provide infrastructure for inevitable development. To pay for this he wants to make sure developers, who are going to profit anyway because you aren't going to stop development in the DC metro, to pay their fair share in impact fees. If they don't, YOU get the bill. He also wants to cut out BS spending by restructuring county government. He himself has said he's not a "tax-and-spend" guy and looks for things like procurement reform and other ways to reduce wasteful spending. This all just makes sense.

So I'm asking, what would you prefer? The county government to not raise impact fees on developers AND cut your taxes and just cut all kinds of spending and reduce its size, and then have everything privatized? And you think your overall out-of-pocket expenses will NOT increase? The very line that people use when talking about our economic situation is "grow our tax base"... well what's the use of that, if they don't tax it? Do you honestly believe in trickle-down economics? If so, why? How do you think your model will work?

And for people who actually plan on voting for Robin Ficker... for one minute I'll roll with it and give you a HUGE benefit of the doubt and assume that he's not a senile, heckling, lunatic... where exactly is he consistent on his economic policies? Ok, so he says he doesn't want to raise your property taxes. (Marc doesn't either). Does he want to cut them? Who else's taxes is he going to cut? How exactly has he said he intends to address the budget shortfall? He also wants to lure Amazon? Great. So, is he going to extract revenue from business? If you've attended any forums, you'll have heard Ficker throw out some surprisingly leftwing positions on the environment and minimum wage - then contradict himself. Is there any evidence of Ficker ever demonstrating that he knows what he's talking about? Or that he's fully thought out.... anything? I don't even see him as a logically consistent conservative, fiscal or otherwise. It seems like he just operates on throwing out some red meat about "Term Limits because we don't like the Council that raised your property taxes!" or "I support the Environment - look at my green yard signs!" or "I would have raised the minimum wage to $15 sooner!" (YES, he has said that!) or "Everyone should run a mile every day, I could beat you in a bike race, Marc Elrich is fat!" (Each of these are actual things he's said, in an actual political discussion) I get the protest vote temptation. I've been tempted to do so myself. The crowded Democratic closed primary may have resulted in someone you're not crazy about eke out a win here or there. But unless you're far gone enough to think that the orange blob in the White House is doing a good job, don't you at least want someone competent who has a fully-baked approach to solve our county's economic problems?

Looking for an honest answer here. I really do want to know your perspetive. [/quote]

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