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Anonymous wrote:OP, did you campaign for the meals tax? Folks couldn't bring themselves to pay a few cents more at a restaurant (which would also be paid by people who live outside the county). Such a shame because it would have generated well over $70 million in revenue for FCPS and programs like tour beloved summer school.

A "few cents" more? You're bad at math. Maybe summer school would have helped.

It would have added 4 cents to every dollar. A $10 meal would have cost 40 additional cents in taxes.

I'm not the PP, just stating what it would have added.

Well, 40 cents is more than a "few." Those in their white UMC bubbles have a hard time grasping what extra costs mean for a lot of people.

Really PP??? You'd be fine paying $10 for a sandwich at a restaurant, but tack on 40 cents and suddenly you're living in poverty. Mmmm, okay. If you're going to present an argument, please make sure it's not ridiculous.

OP, are you talking about actual summer school? You know, for kids who need to retake a class or who want to take a class to get ahead? It's still very much available. My high schooler is retaking a math class that he failed this past year - not very fun.

What summer school is "fun"?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, did you campaign for the meals tax? Folks couldn't bring themselves to pay a few cents more at a restaurant (which would also be paid by people who live outside the county). Such a shame because it would have generated well over $70 million in revenue for FCPS and programs like tour beloved summer school.

A "few cents" more? You're bad at math. Maybe summer school would have helped.

It would have added 4 cents to every dollar. A $10 meal would have cost 40 additional cents in taxes.

I'm not the PP, just stating what it would have added.

Well, 40 cents is more than a "few." Those in their white UMC bubbles have a hard time grasping what extra costs mean for a lot of people.

The tax wasn't a tax on groceries. No one was being taxed on food to feed their families.

However, lets be honest. If a family can afford a $10 meal at a restaurant, they can afford 40 cents in taxes. If they are one of the families of the 57,000 children in FCPS schools who live at or below the poverty level, 40 cents is not going to make or break their desire to eat out. Either they can, or they can't. Its not an additional $4, which can be a hardship. Its not even an extra dollar, which is excessive. However 40 cents is a very small amount of money.

The meals taxes in pretty much every other jurisdiction have proven that this is correct. Lower income families aren't avoiding--for instance--Fairfax City because of their meals tax. You don't see families choosing to eat in Burke vs Fairfax to avoid a tax, do you?

I have a kid in TJ summer school. Live and in person, not online. He is not having a blast. And we had to pay about $1000 out of pocket for the 5 week class. Plus busing. He's there 8-3 every day. I hate that my kid is spending the majority of the summer this way. But there is no way around it if you want to attend TJ and not drop your musical instrument. And he decided sticking with band was worth it.

I wouldn't glorify actual summer school. It's a grind.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, did you campaign for the meals tax? Folks couldn't bring themselves to pay a few cents more at a restaurant (which would also be paid by people who live outside the county). Such a shame because it would have generated well over $70 million in revenue for FCPS and programs like tour beloved summer school.

A "few cents" more? You're bad at math. Maybe summer school would have helped.

It would have added 4 cents to every dollar. A $10 meal would have cost 40 additional cents in taxes.

I'm not the PP, just stating what it would have added.

Well, 40 cents is more than a "few." Those in their white UMC bubbles have a hard time grasping what extra costs mean for a lot of people.

Anonymous wrote:OP, did you campaign for the meals tax? Folks couldn't bring themselves to pay a few cents more at a restaurant (which would also be paid by people who live outside the county). Such a shame because it would have generated well over $70 million in revenue for FCPS and programs like tour beloved summer school.

And, money to change the names of all schools named after slaveowners.

I taught elementary summer school back in the 90's and early 2000's. During that time the classes were all enrichment courses and were actually pretty fun.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, did you campaign for the meals tax? Folks couldn't bring themselves to pay a few cents more at a restaurant (which would also be paid by people who live outside the county). Such a shame because it would have generated well over $70 million in revenue for FCPS and programs like tour beloved summer school.

A "few cents" more? You're bad at math. Maybe summer school would have helped.

It would have added 4 cents to every dollar. A $10 meal would have cost 40 additional cents in taxes.

I'm not the PP, just stating what it would have added.

Anonymous wrote:OP, did you campaign for the meals tax? Folks couldn't bring themselves to pay a few cents more at a restaurant (which would also be paid by people who live outside the county). Such a shame because it would have generated well over $70 million in revenue for FCPS and programs like tour beloved summer school.

A "few cents" more? You're bad at math. Maybe summer school would have helped.

The best memories of my childhood were from summer vacation. Sitting in class for 16 years is bad enough!

Your, not tour. ^^^^

OP, did you campaign for the meals tax? Folks couldn't bring themselves to pay a few cents more at a restaurant (which would also be paid by people who live outside the county). Such a shame because it would have generated well over $70 million in revenue for FCPS and programs like tour beloved summer school.

Huh? What were you doing that was such a blast?

Before the 2008 recession hit FCPS had real summer school. I went and I had a blast. Does anyone else remember when FCPS had a real summer school?