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Anonymous wrote:This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on performative virtue signaling catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population, and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made

I really have no clue what this means (and I'm a MoCo resident), but I think you might be reading and watching too much right-wing media. MoCo is actually a leader in health sciences, pharma, and biomedical research, and there is tons of business formation around those industries. That might not be as splashy as Amazon, but Amazon wants to eliminate basically all jobs in favor of AI, so I'm fine with MoCo not catering to different industries besides tech and data centers.

There is more in Virginia than Amazon. Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Falls Church City were ranked higher in per capita income way before data centers and Amazon. Montgomery County started going down the tubes 10-15 years ago.

And this has nothing to do with “right wing media.” Angela Alsobrooks is 1,000x the leader that that bozo Elrich is. She and her predecessors have made PG County much nicer and more prosperous than it was in the 90s and the early 2000s. Ehrlich has done the opposite. Same thing with Arlington’s leadership and Arlington votes at least 80/20 Dem. It’s about competency and vision, not politics. Stop spinning your County lagging behind literally every other jurisdiction in the DMV, including PG County, in becoming nicer and welcoming more investment since the 80s and 90s.

Show us one Republican that has run for office in any race in MOCO that has a brain. The BOE elections showed us Republicans are liars and yes I know that is supposed to be bipartisan Diaz and Mandel & Mui were not. There isn't one republican that ever ran for one office in MOCO that had a brain.

This has nothing to do with Republicans. Every jurisdiction in the DMV is run by Dems and literally every other county has done a better job at attracting new businesses and making their jurisdictions more economically vibrant and dynamic in the past 20-30 years except MoCo. PG County and DC are far nicer than they were 20-30 years ago and have nicer public amenities that are paid for in part by all the new business and residential development they’ve welcomed. MoCo hasn’t kept pace with anyone in the region over the past 20-30 years, not just NoVa. And again, these places are all
run by competent Dems who don’t do whatever they can to stymie or mismanage economic development.

And I have never seen public infrastructure oversight and planning that was so incompetent as what had happened in MoCo with the Silver Spring transit center and then the Purple Line fiasco. It is astounding.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on performative virtue signaling catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population, and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made

I really have no clue what this means (and I'm a MoCo resident), but I think you might be reading and watching too much right-wing media. MoCo is actually a leader in health sciences, pharma, and biomedical research, and there is tons of business formation around those industries. That might not be as splashy as Amazon, but Amazon wants to eliminate basically all jobs in favor of AI, so I'm fine with MoCo not catering to different industries besides tech and data centers.

There is more in Virginia than Amazon. Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Falls Church City were ranked higher in per capita income way before data centers and Amazon. Montgomery County started going down the tubes 10-15 years ago.

And this has nothing to do with “right wing media.” Angela Alsobrooks is 1,000x the leader that that bozo Elrich is. She and her predecessors have made PG County much nicer and more prosperous than it was in the 90s and the early 2000s. Ehrlich has done the opposite. Same thing with Arlington’s leadership and Arlington votes at least 80/20 Dem. It’s about competency and vision, not politics. Stop spinning your County lagging behind literally every other jurisdiction in the DMV, including PG County, in becoming nicer and welcoming more investment since the 80s and 90s.

Show us one Republican that has run for office in any race in MOCO that has a brain. The BOE elections showed us Republicans are liars and yes I know that is supposed to be bipartisan Diaz and Mandel & Mui were not. There isn't one republican that ever ran for one office in MOCO that had a brain.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on performative virtue signaling catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population, and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made

I really have no clue what this means (and I'm a MoCo resident), but I think you might be reading and watching too much right-wing media. MoCo is actually a leader in health sciences, pharma, and biomedical research, and there is tons of business formation around those industries. That might not be as splashy as Amazon, but Amazon wants to eliminate basically all jobs in favor of AI, so I'm fine with MoCo not catering to different industries besides tech and data centers.

There is more in Virginia than Amazon. Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Falls Church City were ranked higher in per capita income way before data centers and Amazon. Montgomery County started going down the tubes 10-15 years ago.

And this has nothing to do with “right wing media.” Angela Alsobrooks is 1,000x the leader that that bozo Elrich is. She and her predecessors have made PG County much nicer and more prosperous than it was in the 90s and the early 2000s. Ehrlich has done the opposite. Same thing with Arlington’s leadership and Arlington votes at least 80/20 Dem. It’s about competency and vision, not politics. Stop spinning your County lagging behind literally every other jurisdiction in the DMV, including PG County, in becoming nicer and welcoming more investment since the 80s and 90s.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on performative virtue signaling catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population, and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made

I really have no clue what this means (and I'm a MoCo resident), but I think you might be reading and watching too much right-wing media. MoCo is actually a leader in health sciences, pharma, and biomedical research, and there is tons of business formation around those industries. That might not be as splashy as Amazon, but Amazon wants to eliminate basically all jobs in favor of AI, so I'm fine with MoCo not catering to different industries besides tech and data centers.

There is more in Virginia than Amazon. Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Falls Church City were ranked higher in per capita income way before data centers and Amazon. Montgomery County started going down the tubes 10-15 years ago.

And this has nothing to do with “right wing media.” Angela Alsobrooks is 1,000x the leader that that bozo Elrich is. She and her predecessors have made PG County much nicer and more prosperous than it was in the 90s and the early 2000s. Ehrlich has done the opposite. Same thing with Arlington’s leadership and Arlington votes at least 80/20 Dem. It’s about competency and vision, not politics. Stop spinning your County lagging behind literally every other jurisdiction in the DMV, including PG County, in becoming nicer and welcoming more investment since the 80s and 90s.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on performative virtue signaling catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population, and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made

I really have no clue what this means (and I'm a MoCo resident), but I think you might be reading and watching too much right-wing media. MoCo is actually a leader in health sciences, pharma, and biomedical research, and there is tons of business formation around those industries. That might not be as splashy as Amazon, but Amazon wants to eliminate basically all jobs in favor of AI, so I'm fine with MoCo not catering to different industries besides tech and data centers.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on performative virtue signaling catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population, and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made

I really have no clue what this means (and I'm a MoCo resident), but I think you might be reading and watching too much right-wing media. MoCo is actually a leader in health sciences, pharma, and biomedical research, and there is tons of business formation around those industries. That might not be as splashy as Amazon, but Amazon wants to eliminate basically all jobs in favor of AI, so I'm fine with MoCo not catering to different industries besides tech and data centers.

DP. There is almost no net business formation in Montgomery County. The employment metrics are all terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on performative virtue signaling catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population, and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made

I really have no clue what this means (and I'm a MoCo resident), but I think you might be reading and watching too much right-wing media. MoCo is actually a leader in health sciences, pharma, and biomedical research, and there is tons of business formation around those industries. That might not be as splashy as Amazon, but Amazon wants to eliminate basically all jobs in favor of AI, so I'm fine with MoCo not catering to different industries besides tech and data centers.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on performative virtue signaling catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population, and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made

Anonymous wrote:Ronald Reagan campaigned as a fiscal conservative, but once in office, he funneled a lot of money into defense contracts, some of them worthwhile, but many less so ("Star Wars") that were conducted by contractors in Va. We called them "Beltway Bandits" but they were almost all on the VA side. See the DCUM thread on "FFRDCs." Bush the younger doubled down with more money, and huge deficits, to contractors like Booz-Allen and CACI (waterboarding anyone?). The DoD financed a networking scheme that led to the Internet --- designed at a building on Wilson Blvd. in Rosslyn, where there is a plaque. SAIC bought the rights from Network Solutions in what may have been a very shady deal to allow them to charge a fee for registering a dot.com address. A license to print money. Bottom line: Defense money, paid for by taxpayers, made NOVA.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on performative virtue signaling catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population, and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made