Anonymous wrote:That one council member said he'll give us until Monday to clear the walks and here it is Thursday and they don't have the walks cleared for school to open. Yeah, they are messed up.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone get their assessments in the mail. I feel sick. 🙄

Why? The assessed value of your home decreased?

lol no it increased, and these people are mad because then they have to pay taxes on the actual value of their house.

If their houses don’t increase in value, they’re mad and if it does increase in value, they’re mad.

I do think that once you turn 70 there should be no more tax assessment so that you don’t get taxed out of your house.

Taxing unrealized capital gains on non-revenue generating, owner-occupied land is regressive. Taxing the value of improvements to land is stupid because it punishes development.

The least bad way to tax real property is to tax the value of the land (ignoring what’s on it), especially when undeveloped or underdeveloped land is sold. The state won’t allow this because land speculators donate a lot of money to campaigns.

Land value taxes would be unconstitutional the way you want to do it. A tax that zeros out the market value of land would be considered and uncompensated takings of private property.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone get their assessments in the mail. I feel sick. 🙄

Why? The assessed value of your home decreased?

lol no it increased, and these people are mad because then they have to pay taxes on the actual value of their house.

If their houses don’t increase in value, they’re mad and if it does increase in value, they’re mad.

I do think that once you turn 70 there should be no more tax assessment so that you don’t get taxed out of your house.

Taxing unrealized capital gains on non-revenue generating, owner-occupied land is regressive. Taxing the value of improvements to land is stupid because it punishes development.

The least bad way to tax real property is to tax the value of the land (ignoring what’s on it), especially when undeveloped or underdeveloped land is sold. The state won’t allow this because land speculators donate a lot of money to campaigns.

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax going downhill fast:

https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/12/22/delayed-data-shows-jump-in-fairfax-joblessness-as-regions-federal-workforce-shrinks/

Arlington also going downhill fast:

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/10/02/arlington-unemployment-up-38-over-2024-as-regional-leaders-brace-for-more/

Alexandria was already awful, now it's even worse:

https://www.alxnow.com/2025/09/24/federal-downsizing-hits-alexandria-hardest-among-virginia-suburbs-study-shows/

It’s cute that you keep on cherry picking stories and not posting related stories that address the growing unemployment in Montgomery County, but those of us who have lived in the area for 30-40 years have noticed a precipice decline in Montgomery County, while places like Arlington, Alexandria, Tysons, Falls Church, and the entirety of Loudoun County have grown so much economically that they have 4 of the top 10 richest counties per median household income in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States

Montgomery County, which used to be #1 in the nation, is trailing Stafford County and Calvert County now, both places that used to literally be known to have a fair share of rednecks in trailers flying Confederate flags in the 80s and 90s.

People like you who post these stupid statistics I don’t even believe that you lived here in the 80s.

decline?

In the 80s, high school students were allowed to smoke in schools. My brother took a glass blowing glass where he made bongs in high school . Kids were not getting into Ivy League schools. Gaithersburg was Calvert county.

In the 80s Montgomery County was the richest county in the country. Your personal anecdotes don’t change the data.

In the 1980s people were flying large Confederate flags on 395 south of Springfield and literally living in trailer parks in counties that have no passed Montgomery County in median household income.

If America went from #1 to #20 in median household income over a 30-40 year period voters would be livid and there would possibly be political unrest in the streets. For some reason most Montgomery County voters don’t care or worse yet welcome this depressing decline. It makes no sense, but here we are.

LOL

Virginia is Turing blue that’s why it’s successful and MD is heading red

History is glorious

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone get their assessments in the mail. I feel sick. 🙄

Why? The assessed value of your home decreased?

lol no it increased, and these people are mad because then they have to pay taxes on the actual value of their house.

If their houses don’t increase in value, they’re mad and if it does increase in value, they’re mad.

I do think that once you turn 70 there should be no more tax assessment so that you don’t get taxed out of your house.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone get their assessments in the mail. I feel sick. 🙄

Why? The assessed value of your home decreased?

lol no it increased, and these people are mad because then they have to pay taxes on the actual value of their house.

If their houses don’t increase in value, they’re mad and if it does increase in value, they’re mad.

I do think that once you turn 70 there should be no more tax assessment so that you don’t get taxed out of your house.

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Anonymous wrote:Moco is on the Baltimore city game plan. Just look to balt city if you want to see the future of moco.

Racists like YOU hate it? Yes please! Yes you’re racist. Your mother lied to you, you’re a bad person.

A lot of cope and deflection but no answers. Why did it slip from the richest county in the country to poorer than Calvert County and Stafford County?

Current Rankings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States

I’ve noticed a trend on this board from people that are in north Virginia. They seem to have an inferiority complex about MoCo. People in MoCo rarely think about NoVa or post about it but people from there seem to be obsessed with Montgomery county. It’s truly a mental illness.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is funny and delulu. No, we don’t care. Just stay off our roads. The number of numb n*ts with MD plates is staggering.

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax going downhill fast:

https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/12/22/delayed-data-shows-jump-in-fairfax-joblessness-as-regions-federal-workforce-shrinks/

Arlington also going downhill fast:

https://www.arlnow.com/2025/10/02/arlington-unemployment-up-38-over-2024-as-regional-leaders-brace-for-more/

Alexandria was already awful, now it's even worse:

https://www.alxnow.com/2025/09/24/federal-downsizing-hits-alexandria-hardest-among-virginia-suburbs-study-shows/

It’s cute that you keep on cherry picking stories and not posting related stories that address the growing unemployment in Montgomery County, but those of us who have lived in the area for 30-40 years have noticed a precipice decline in Montgomery County, while places like Arlington, Alexandria, Tysons, Falls Church, and the entirety of Loudoun County have grown so much economically that they have 4 of the top 10 richest counties per median household income in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States

Montgomery County, which used to be #1 in the nation, is trailing Stafford County and Calvert County now, both places that used to literally be known to have a fair share of rednecks in trailers flying Confederate flags in the 80s and 90s.

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Anonymous wrote:Moco is on the Baltimore city game plan. Just look to balt city if you want to see the future of moco.

Racists like YOU hate it? Yes please! Yes you’re racist. Your mother lied to you, you’re a bad person.

A lot of cope and deflection but no answers. Why did it slip from the richest county in the country to poorer than Calvert County and Stafford County?

Current Rankings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States

I’ve noticed a trend on this board from people that are in north Virginia. They seem to have an inferiority complex about MoCo. People in MoCo rarely think about NoVa or post about it but people from there seem to be obsessed with Montgomery county. It’s truly a mental illness.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone get their assessments in the mail. I feel sick. 🙄

Why? The assessed value of your home decreased?

lol no it increased, and these people are mad because then they have to pay taxes on the actual value of their house.

If their houses don’t increase in value, they’re mad and if it does increase in value, they’re mad.

I do think that once you turn 70 there should be no more tax assessment so that you don’t get taxed out of your house.