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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are raising assessments AND the property tax rate. I don't understand where all the money goes. The county services our family would use are libraries--which are in complete disrepair and disgusting and unusable--and the ms afterschool program. Our kids play rec soccer and they don't even get to practice on a real field because our league says there is a field shortage. They play rec basketball and practice once a week in school gyms and those are closed half the time and practice is canceled. Other counties have much nicer amenities. Where does all the money go? 
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70% of our taxes (from food, property, gas, plastic bags, etc) go to Richmond and south.
There's relarively a small/disproportional amt for the northern counties despite the dense population (1.8 million people in Ffx Co...I'm guessing adjacent counties are also almost as highly populated).[/quote]

+1. It's long past time to tweak the LCI. We should not be sending 70% of our tax dollars downstate and getting pennies in return.[/quote]

Money flowing to Richmond is why through to have a casino in Fairfax county. It didn’t go through this session, but it will be back again.[/quote]

The revenues from a casino are overstated, and 3/4 would flow to Richmond anyway, not to mention the increased financial costs to the county (additional law enforcement for one) and increased societal costs (as example the increased ease of access would increase the incidence of problematic gambling addiction in our county).[/quote]

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