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Anonymous wrote:Government issues a request for proposals. Companies have to respond showing they can meet the required contractual elements, and what they’d charge. Then the county takes the cheapest of the companies that can do the best work.

This. People are so dumb sometimes.

I wonder if they factor in the lost tax revenue on the MoCo company and on the MoCo residents that might work for the company when determining true cost. Not to mention the goodwill of creating jobs in their county and the votes it might garner. Might not be quite as dumb a question as you think. But, then again these are local government officials, so "smarts" doesn't usually enter into the equation.

Anonymous wrote:Government issues a request for proposals. Companies have to respond showing they can meet the required contractual elements, and what they’d charge. Then the county takes the cheapest of the companies that can do the best work.

This. People are so dumb sometimes.

Government issues a request for proposals. Companies have to respond showing they can meet the required contractual elements, and what they’d charge. Then the county takes the cheapest of the companies that can do the best work.

Anonymous wrote:I'm making a property tax payment, and I see that the mailing address where to send the payments is in Philadelphia. Why doesn't the county keep the payment-processing jobs IN THE COUNTY? Wouldn't that create at least a handful of jobs here? Nice going, county government.

This is taking protectionism to the extreme. Should all furniture purchased by the MoCo government have to be made in MoCo?

Idiot.

Taking things out of envelopes is a crappy job. If it can be done more cheaply in PA then go for it. Makes sound economic sense.

MCPS found out there is an income gap. Trying to close the gap by creating jobs in PA.

Nothing MoCo does is good for MoCo residents.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm making a property tax payment, and I see that the mailing address where to send the payments is in Philadelphia. Why doesn't the county keep the payment-processing jobs IN THE COUNTY? Wouldn't that create at least a handful of jobs here? Nice going, county government.

If the county keeps the work in-county, people complain: why are we wasting public money when this could be done more cheaply elsewhere?!

If the county does it elsewhere, people complain: why are we doing this elsewhere when it could be done in-county?!

They could contract it out to a local company.

Of course they could do that, but if they were required to contract it considering pricing, then the MoCo competitors probably lost. Do you think that every vegetable and piece of meat in MCPS cafeterias comes from Maryland farms? That every teacher in MoCo lives in MoCo?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm making a property tax payment, and I see that the mailing address where to send the payments is in Philadelphia. Why doesn't the county keep the payment-processing jobs IN THE COUNTY? Wouldn't that create at least a handful of jobs here? Nice going, county government.

If the county keeps the work in-county, people complain: why are we wasting public money when this could be done more cheaply elsewhere?!

If the county does it elsewhere, people complain: why are we doing this elsewhere when it could be done in-county?!

They could contract it out to a local company.

Anonymous wrote:I'm making a property tax payment, and I see that the mailing address where to send the payments is in Philadelphia. Why doesn't the county keep the payment-processing jobs IN THE COUNTY? Wouldn't that create at least a handful of jobs here? Nice going, county government.

If the county keeps the work in-county, people complain: why are we wasting public money when this could be done more cheaply elsewhere?!

If the county does it elsewhere, people complain: why are we doing this elsewhere when it could be done in-county?!

Want fiscally responsible government or locally performed government?

We could process it here with county employees. Your taxes would increase even more.

Ha! I wonder this every time I pay our property taxes.

Just pay with e-check.

Government, whether local or federal outsource, too, which is why the whole "bring back the jobs" thing is kind of a joke when Trump doesn't even do it for his own company.

I'm making a property tax payment, and I see that the mailing address where to send the payments is in Philadelphia. Why doesn't the county keep the payment-processing jobs IN THE COUNTY? Wouldn't that create at least a handful of jobs here? Nice going, county government.