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Anonymous wrote:While perhaps a year ago I may have been willing to gamble my vote on an annoyance issue like this, the Supreme Court has bought the Ds years of my loyalty by knocking down Roe. It is hard to imagine something they could do at this stage that would cause me to vote R in a purple state.

Because the Board of Supervisors has so much to do with who is picked for the Supreme Court.... fascinating logic.

Vote out the entire FFX Board of Supervisors (minus Herrity) and the entire FFX County School Board in Nov 2023.

Say the people who decided to punish the school boards by voting R at the state level?

There is a hole in YOUR logic

Ugh, I worked in a county board office in the early 2000s and had to explain tax rates to people constantly. Sadly, people still don’t get it. Not surprising, but frustrating all the same.

Interesting to hear that Fairfax actually gave their own reduction while the state reduction was not as good as previous years.

The value of houses and cars have skyrocketed. Tax rates tend to get reduced a bit in times like these, yet the cost for county services are not going down, either. The county has to find the balance between tax rate reduction yet still bringing in enough revenue to, I don’t know, pay and retain teachers (more than 50% of county taxes fund the schools)?

Yes, I hate paying car taxes and I hate our mortgage payment going up. It sucks. But, I also don’t want the county to cut services.

And this isn’t Jersey, thankfully

Anonymous wrote:For those blaming Rs, note the map:

https://www.tax-rates.org/virginia/property-tax

This link has nothing to do with the car tax, it's all about real estate taxes.

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Anonymous wrote:We told you he was a liar.

Seriously? You are blaming the governor for a county decision that is run by a supermajority of democrats???

Well, if Biden can be blamed for high global inflation and global energy prices then Youngkin can be blamed for this!

Utter fail. You blamed Trump for everything under the sun, but don't want Biden to be blamed now that he's president. Too bad - you dished it out, now you can take it. As for Youngkin, the PP is correct. Nothing he can do when Democrats continue to pass their idiotic bills that over tax Virginians.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:We told you he was a liar.

Seriously? You are blaming the governor for a county decision that is run by a supermajority of democrats???

Well, if Biden can be blamed for high global inflation and global energy prices then Youngkin can be blamed for this!

Time to get Youngkin out of office.

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Anonymous wrote:But Yungkin promised the property tax relief: https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2022/march/name-930544-en.html

He promised. Didn’t deliver. He lied.

Yep

I did my taxes under the assumption I moved to DC. It'd be marginally cheaper to live in DC. Was a bit surprised. For our house/car/spending profile, we'd need to make over 325k before most of NOVA was better.

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Anonymous wrote:But Yungkin promised the property tax relief: https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2022/march/name-930544-en.html

it turns out that he lied

Democrats control the virginia senate. Hard to pass republican legislation with democrats controlling the senate.

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Anonymous wrote:Drive old cars. It's the only way to keep you taxes relatively affordable in Virginia.

That then won’t pass the state-mandated inspections.

I am still paying over $100 for my 20 year old car. Anywhere else it would be practically zero. FFX is squeezing the hell out its residents and it needs to stop. The Springfield district Rep was the only one to vote No on raising taxes. Here's an idea, how about you raise the taxes of all the original home owners so they are more inline with what the new owners pay.

Are you aware that the used car market has skewed very high? Your used car is worth much more now than it was a couple years ago, and the car tax reflects that. Blame the pandemic, supply shortages, etc. Not Fairfax.

So my income didn’t change (or went down due to the government’s impulse to crush small business as a way to deal with a virus) but because someone else would have to pay more this year for my old car than last year, the government is justified in taking more of my income.

Ok

You live in VA voluntarily. I am in my 50s and from VA, there has been a auto tax since before I was born. Where are you from pp? Obviously not from around here.

If you don't want to pay a personal property tax on your car, move to MD.

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Anonymous wrote:Drive old cars. It's the only way to keep you taxes relatively affordable in Virginia.

That then won’t pass the state-mandated inspections.

I am still paying over $100 for my 20 year old car. Anywhere else it would be practically zero. FFX is squeezing the hell out its residents and it needs to stop. The Springfield district Rep was the only one to vote No on raising taxes. Here's an idea, how about you raise the taxes of all the original home owners so they are more inline with what the new owners pay.

Are you aware that the used car market has skewed very high? Your used car is worth much more now than it was a couple years ago, and the car tax reflects that. Blame the pandemic, supply shortages, etc. Not Fairfax.

So my income didn’t change (or went down due to the government’s impulse to crush small business as a way to deal with a virus) but because someone else would have to pay more this year for my old car than last year, the government is justified in taking more of my income.

Ok

Inflation works on taxes, too!

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Anonymous wrote:While perhaps a year ago I may have been willing to gamble my vote on an annoyance issue like this, the Supreme Court has bought the Ds years of my loyalty by knocking down Roe. It is hard to imagine something they could do at this stage that would cause me to vote R in a purple state.

Larry Hogan, Charlie Baker, Mitt Romney, all promised to not touch abortion.

What does abortion have to do with car taxes?

OP’s thread was about voting out Dems because of taxes. My point was the Ds have my vote at every level except things like school board for the foreseeable future now that abortion is up to state/local government to set policy on. Irritant topics are not worth risking electing Rs that may vote in new restrictions.

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Anonymous wrote:Drive old cars. It's the only way to keep you taxes relatively affordable in Virginia.

That then won’t pass the state-mandated inspections.

Say what? My 19yo Acura passes with flying colors. Low mileage, good mpg, …

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Anonymous wrote:Drive old cars. It's the only way to keep you taxes relatively affordable in Virginia.

That then won’t pass the state-mandated inspections.

I am still paying over $100 for my 20 year old car. Anywhere else it would be practically zero. FFX is squeezing the hell out its residents and it needs to stop. The Springfield district Rep was the only one to vote No on raising taxes. Here's an idea, how about you raise the taxes of all the original home owners so they are more inline with what the new owners pay.

Are you aware that the used car market has skewed very high? Your used car is worth much more now than it was a couple years ago, and the car tax reflects that. Blame the pandemic, supply shortages, etc. Not Fairfax.