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[quote=Anonymous]It's a classic tale of pork politics. The politicians hand out free cash and housing to gather votes in Silver Spring drained from most other parts of the county. Silver Spring has the highest amount of registered voters. Although it's successfully pulling low income residents from DC and PG, there aren't enough free services to go around and the low income residents aren't great tax revenue generators; so the solution is raise taxes so even more HOC programs can be funded and draw even more low income residents into the county. Unfortunately over time this strategy is backfiring. Over time this raises the crime related incident rates and, voila! Now the higher income residents see the area as a safety issue and I think we're starting to see the first signs of high-income resident pullout? Only time will tell.[/quote]
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