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Anonymous wrote:Northern Virginia should secede from the rest of Virginia, as Northern Virginia carries the state, financially. Same with Fairfax County - it should be divided by town, and each town should be independent, and people should live where they can afford - instead of certain parts of Fairfax County being carried by one or two places. But the locals would never hear of it.

+1 cut it off after Woodbridge.

Yes, they should split Prince William County in two parts East and West.

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Anonymous wrote:Has Virginia ever given thought to breaking up Fairfax? Its massive in size and could easily be broken up into 5 separate jurisdictions.

Doing so would almost certainly mean seperating higher income areas from lower income areas, resulting in some areas that now benefit from FFX's resources becoming stressed with the need to pay for services on a proportionately lower tax base. Its even more complicated because a lot of FFX's tax base is Tysons - why should the residents of the NE part of the County get all the benefit of that?

Because of those issues the FFX BOS will not try to do that, and the General Assembly would be reluctant to approve it.

Have you seen the property tax bill increases this year? Yes, some of us are tired of paying more and more for handout. The school board trying to push changes that would harm middle class kids is going to be the last straw.

Anonymous wrote:Look at property taxes in NJ if you want to see what road this leads down.

NJ has a lot of very nice small towns that are not completely ruined by the dysfunctional residents living nearby. When you let local communities make decisions for themselves they are not forced to subsidize neighbors that don’t contribute their weight economically. Administrative bloat is actually the worst in very large local governments, look at NYC or San Francisco. There is a happy medium that allows for more local control an efficiency between Fairfax County and a small NJ town with 2,000 residents. Fauquier County, has 1/15th the population lower property tax rates/government spending.are lower than a Fairfax county. The crime violent crime rate is lower and it has higher pass rates on state exams. Fairfax county is declining because it is in a handout death spiral where politicians spend increasingly larger amounts of taxpayer money to subsisdize residents that are dependent on social services. This overly generous local government spending entices more low income taxpayers to relocate to the county and increases the number of voters that support frivolous government spending. The cycle will only get worse unless the county splits up.

Look at property taxes in NJ if you want to see what road this leads down.

Anonymous wrote:Northern Virginia should secede from the rest of Virginia, as Northern Virginia carries the state, financially. Same with Fairfax County - it should be divided by town, and each town should be independent, and people should live where they can afford - instead of certain parts of Fairfax County being carried by one or two places. But the locals would never hear of it.

Another benevolent overseer knowing what the "locals" will do. Go back to your policy wonkism.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, and we should break up California and Alaska to while we're at it.

Each county in Oklahoma should be its own state. I’m all for that.

Virginia used to regularly divide counties that got too big. FFX is way past that point.

They should split up the county in 4 or 5 new counties and make Tyson’s an independent city. Fairfax county is too big to function efficiently and voters should have more local control you over what happens where they live.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, and we should break up California and Alaska to while we're at it.

I love you!

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Anonymous wrote:The school district should be broken into smaller districts.

+1

It's way too big.

Do you seriously want more administration and overhead costs? Why?

They already have separate superintendents for each cluster.

Costs would be a draw or less.

Stupid idea, OP.

Fairfax County should secede from Virginia. The People's Republic of Fairfax.

Anonymous wrote:Northern Virginia should secede from the rest of Virginia, as Northern Virginia carries the state, financially. Same with Fairfax County - it should be divided by town, and each town should be independent, and people should live where they can afford - instead of certain parts of Fairfax County being carried by one or two places. But the locals would never hear of it.

+1 cut it off after Woodbridge.

Manassas Park should annex McLean. They've always wanted to live in MP; their jealousy is palpable.

We get it.. You hate poor people