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Anonymous wrote:Elrich Wants to Drop Property Tax Hike, Impose Income Tax Hike Instead

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/04/23/elrich-wants-to-drop-property-tax-hike-impose-income-tax-hike-instead/

This man truly is a dullard.

Why is this a problem? I’ve lived in my home for quite a while. It is now valued at over 3 times its purchase price — and my property taxes have increased accordingly, although my income has not. If I have to sell my home, it will be in large part because of property taxes — which I have no control over. As a senior, this shift will benefit me, and will be the difference between my ability to age in place vs facing some very painful and possibly dire choices — with property taxes as one of my biggest expenses.

Meaning the tax burden will shift to younger residents...

Taxes are causing a housing crisis.

No Trump and musk are

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Anonymous wrote:Here's an idea: how about the county cuts some spending rather than raising taxes?

The council is looking for cuts. Problem is, they can't cut MCPS at all because of state law, so the cuts are to other services that take a disproportionate share of the reductions.

They could refuse to go over maintenance of effort for MCPS. Treat it as a ceiling and not a floor. Nobody will do that as they ramp up for reelection.

The Council recently voted in two cuts...to developer costs via Evan Glass' bill 22-24 and Andrew Friedson's & Natali Fani-Gonzalez's bill 2-25. One deferred tax collection, the other effectivelly eliminated it for mamy years for certain conversion projects.

Each was expedited, making public review more difficult. Each was put forward with measures to make them retroactive, applying to projects that clearly did not need the support.

Each failed to provide conditions to ensure the public cost was not borne in cases where it might not be needed. Each failed to account for its own budget effect and/or infrastructure burden, leaving a resulting need to cut programs, increase taxes or issue bonds in future years. Each typified the kinds of legislation put forth by the Council and obviated the constituencies the Council favors: the developer/real estate industry and incoming residents over neighborhoods and current residents.

Each was vetoed by Elrich, but the first had its veto overridden by the entire Council and the second likely will see the same, with only Jawando positioning himself differently in the lead-up to the next election.

Anonymous wrote:I also favor MoCo following Howard CO’s lead. They increased the employee share of health insurance as one way to save money.

I'm a county employee and agree with this.

I also favor MoCo following Howard CO’s lead. They increased the employee share of health insurance as one way to save money.

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Anonymous wrote:Elrich Wants to Drop Property Tax Hike, Impose Income Tax Hike Instead

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/04/23/elrich-wants-to-drop-property-tax-hike-impose-income-tax-hike-instead/

This man truly is a dullard.

Why is this a problem? I’ve lived in my home for quite a while. It is now valued at over 3 times its purchase price — and my property taxes have increased accordingly, although my income has not. If I have to sell my home, it will be in large part because of property taxes — which I have no control over. As a senior, this shift will benefit me, and will be the difference between my ability to age in place vs facing some very painful and possibly dire choices — with property taxes as one of my biggest expenses.

It's a problem because Elrich has never met a tax increase he doesnt like.
So whether it is property tax (which goes up anyway with assessments), or this.... its literally his only idea on governance. Taxes. More of them, all the time. As those with the means and choice leave moco, and those who move here are recipients of government programs.

If there was a good reason for an increase in income tax- I'm all ears. But Howard County literally just balanced their budgets without either a property or income tax increase.

Anonymous wrote:Here's an idea: how about the county cuts some spending rather than raising taxes?

The council is looking for cuts. Problem is, they can't cut MCPS at all because of state law, so the cuts are to other services that take a disproportionate share of the reductions.

They could refuse to go over maintenance of effort for MCPS. Treat it as a ceiling and not a floor. Nobody will do that as they ramp up for reelection.

Here's an idea: how about the county cuts some spending rather than raising taxes?

This guy just wants to tax tax tax everything. Does he ever cut anything?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elrich Wants to Drop Property Tax Hike, Impose Income Tax Hike Instead

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/04/23/elrich-wants-to-drop-property-tax-hike-impose-income-tax-hike-instead/

This man truly is a dullard.

Why is this a problem? I’ve lived in my home for quite a while. It is now valued at over 3 times its purchase price — and my property taxes have increased accordingly, although my income has not. If I have to sell my home, it will be in large part because of property taxes — which I have no control over. As a senior, this shift will benefit me, and will be the difference between my ability to age in place vs facing some very painful and possibly dire choices — with property taxes as one of my biggest expenses.

Meaning the tax burden will shift to younger residents...

Taxes are causing a housing crisis.

The developers are probably fine with an income tax increase because they don’t have to pay it. A property tax increase, on the other hand, hits the bottom line directly.

There were adjustments to federal maintenance of effort rules based on the stimulus funds.

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Anonymous wrote:Cut the friggin school budget. If times are tough for the country, then local govts need to stop spending money and increasing salaries. Period. MCPS doesn't get to keep increasing spending ad infinitum despite economic conditions. In fact, they should cut salaries.

Spending has little correlation with educational outcomes after a certain point. Why can countries like Sweden, Japan, South Korea, China, and Singapore produce a far better educational product than US public schools while spending 2-3x less? Most of the money in systems like MCPS go entirely to an over bloated bureaucratic mess that pays 100s and thousands of unnecessary people crazy salaries with cushy pensions. Then they have to hire consultants for $2000/h to come up with a modernized curriculum teaching math, even though math needs no updating, and then spend even more money on more consultants to study the potential impact and long term outcomes.

Cut and fire 80% in MCPS. Reduce taxes, make MoCo a better place to do business.

They can't. State law requires them to maintain at least the same per pupil spending as the year before. There is no way for the power of the purse, in this respect, to demand efficiencies.

Blah blah blah.. then change state law rapidly. It shouldn't be hard. Dems constantly tell us it can't be done, yet as trump showed, you can actually enforce immigration law, without massive reforms, overnight. MoCo needs massive austerities, IMMEDIATELY. They're going to blow up the enire ccountry because they still can't wrap their brain around the big picture - the flow of easy money is over. The govt left the area. There are no more jobs. The county is about to become Baltimore. Austerity NOW.

What did we do in 2008 during the recession? Were we temporarily exempted from the maintenance of effort funding rule?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elrich Wants to Drop Property Tax Hike, Impose Income Tax Hike Instead

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/04/23/elrich-wants-to-drop-property-tax-hike-impose-income-tax-hike-instead/

This man truly is a dullard.

Why is this a problem? I’ve lived in my home for quite a while. It is now valued at over 3 times its purchase price — and my property taxes have increased accordingly, although my income has not. If I have to sell my home, it will be in large part because of property taxes — which I have no control over. As a senior, this shift will benefit me, and will be the difference between my ability to age in place vs facing some very painful and possibly dire choices — with property taxes as one of my biggest expenses.

Meaning the tax burden will shift to younger residents...

Taxes are causing a housing crisis.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elrich Wants to Drop Property Tax Hike, Impose Income Tax Hike Instead

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/04/23/elrich-wants-to-drop-property-tax-hike-impose-income-tax-hike-instead/

This man truly is a dullard.

Why is this a problem? I’ve lived in my home for quite a while. It is now valued at over 3 times its purchase price — and my property taxes have increased accordingly, although my income has not. If I have to sell my home, it will be in large part because of property taxes — which I have no control over. As a senior, this shift will benefit me, and will be the difference between my ability to age in place vs facing some very painful and possibly dire choices — with property taxes as one of my biggest expenses.

Meaning the tax burden will shift to younger residents...

How so? I get that the tax burden will shift to people with higher incomes — but that doesn’t completely or even necessarily mean younger residents. I realize that these younger residents aren’t necessarily the same people, but I’ve paid significant chunks of my income in taxes that supported younger residents attending public school programs. I guess I should have been less community-minded and made a different, more selfish, set of personal decisions for myself.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elrich Wants to Drop Property Tax Hike, Impose Income Tax Hike Instead

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/04/23/elrich-wants-to-drop-property-tax-hike-impose-income-tax-hike-instead/

This man truly is a dullard.

Why is this a problem? I’ve lived in my home for quite a while. It is now valued at over 3 times its purchase price — and my property taxes have increased accordingly, although my income has not. If I have to sell my home, it will be in large part because of property taxes — which I have no control over. As a senior, this shift will benefit me, and will be the difference between my ability to age in place vs facing some very painful and possibly dire choices — with property taxes as one of my biggest expenses.

Meaning the tax burden will shift to younger residents...

Anonymous wrote:Elrich Wants to Drop Property Tax Hike, Impose Income Tax Hike Instead

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/04/23/elrich-wants-to-drop-property-tax-hike-impose-income-tax-hike-instead/

This man truly is a dullard.

Why is this a problem? I’ve lived in my home for quite a while. It is now valued at over 3 times its purchase price — and my property taxes have increased accordingly, although my income has not. If I have to sell my home, it will be in large part because of property taxes — which I have no control over. As a senior, this shift will benefit me, and will be the difference between my ability to age in place vs facing some very painful and possibly dire choices — with property taxes as one of my biggest expenses.

Elrich Wants to Drop Property Tax Hike, Impose Income Tax Hike Instead

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/04/23/elrich-wants-to-drop-property-tax-hike-impose-income-tax-hike-instead/

This man truly is a dullard.