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why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Melinda_C ()
Date: September 02, 2008 10:04PM

why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?

(5% VA sales tax, plus 4% City of Fairfax meal tax)

doesn't anybody object to this?

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Guy Wire ()
Date: September 02, 2008 10:10PM

If you find confiscatory taxes objectionable then don't vote Democrat.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: hop ()
Date: September 02, 2008 10:42PM

they're sprucing up the old city!

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: vapreneur ()
Date: September 03, 2008 03:51AM

in response to guy wire..

if you want your home values to shed another 20% within the next year, elect a republican

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: September 03, 2008 08:06AM

Melinda_C Wrote:
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> why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within
> City of Fairfax?
>
> (5% VA sales tax, plus 4% City of Fairfax meal
> tax)
>
> doesn't anybody object to this?


Because... five plus four equals nine? Are you saying we should objecting to math? What other total besides nine do you think they should be charging? What is the objection we should have?

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Gravis ()
Date: September 03, 2008 09:03AM

Melinda_C Wrote:
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> why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within
> City of Fairfax?


fairfax city is run by elitist jackasses who want your money for their pet projects in their "quaint" little town. personally, i hope the whole place is burned down and the highways are expanded so it's not 25MPH everywhere. fairfax city is a huge bottleneck.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."095042938540

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Cutie Village ()
Date: February 17, 2010 03:52PM

Here's a thought - why don't you do us all a favor and go around? ;)

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: gmuarrest ()
Date: February 17, 2010 04:21PM

he's just mad at the whole area, especially since he was arrested by a female
GMU Officer...

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: TeaBagger ()
Date: February 17, 2010 04:27PM

If you don't like the taxes then you should join Palin's Boston teabagger party.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Good Guy ()
Date: February 17, 2010 04:32PM

vapreneur Wrote:
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> in response to guy wire..
>
> if you want your home values to shed another 20%
> within the next year, elect a republican


True. Also use the Republican idea of "Don't regulate banks." That worked well, the most corrupt banking system ever! Then use tax dollars to bail out the banks.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Good Guy ()
Date: February 17, 2010 04:34PM

TeaBagger Wrote:
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> If you don't like the taxes then you should join
> Palin's Boston teabagger party.

The Tea baggers, let's take the country back in time 200 years and make all the same mistakes again. Great idea.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: TeaBagger ()
Date: February 17, 2010 04:36PM

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: O. B. Sity ()
Date: February 17, 2010 05:55PM

its and obesity tax so you don't over eat and get fat.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: bug ()
Date: February 17, 2010 06:25PM

I refuse to eat in FFX City because of that. There are plenty of great restaurants outside of that 2 square miles.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: mcsmack ()
Date: February 17, 2010 06:33PM

Good Guy Wrote:
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> vapreneur Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > in response to guy wire..
> >
> > if you want your home values to shed another
> 20%
> > within the next year, elect a republican
>
>
> True. Also use the Republican idea of "Don't
> regulate banks." That worked well, the most
> corrupt banking system ever! Then use tax dollars
> to bail out the banks.

Christopher Dodd Senate Banking Committee Chairman.

Barney Frank: Frank became the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee in 2007 after the Democratic Party won a majority in the House. The committee oversees the entire financial services industry, which includes the securities, insurance, banking, and housing industries.

Their was also a gal named Jamie Gorelick: Jamie S. Gorelick (pronounced /ɡəˈrɛlɪk/; born May 6, 1950) is an American attorney and judicial officer who was Deputy Attorney General of the United States during the Clinton administration.

She was charged by her Boss Janet Reno to go after and enforce what amounted to affirmative action quotas for the mortgage banking industry.

The George W Bush Administration tried to call attention to the mortgage mess with Fannie May and Freddie Mac as they are known as early as 2002 and was promptly rebuked by Messrs Frank and especially Dodd. Senator Kennedy as usual was in the mix of ridicule too. This was even after Bush tried to "change the tone" in DC by letting Kennedy write the education bill in 2001.

GW Bush should have fought these morons a lot harder but was primarily occupied with the war on terror. Without a doubt it was his administrations biggest and most costly mistake. Most likely his Treasury Secretary Paul O'Niel thought it was too big of an issue to take on at a time when legislative cohesiveness was critical after 9-11-2001. As usual there is always a lot more to the story then what you'll read in The New York Times.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/2010 06:37PM by mcsmack.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Some Guy ()
Date: February 17, 2010 08:06PM

You're welcome!!

Sincerely,
Rob Lederer

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: former Vienna resident ()
Date: February 18, 2010 07:50AM

Gravis Wrote:
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> Melinda_C Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within
> > City of Fairfax?
>
> fairfax city is run by elitist jackasses who want
> your money for their pet projects in their
> "quaint" little town. personally, i hope the
> whole place is burned down and the highways are
> expanded so it's not 25MPH everywhere. fairfax
> city is a huge bottleneck.


That is true. Vienna is exactly the same story. Residents pay extra for their own police force, snow removal service, etc., instead of having the state or county do it. Boycott Fairfax City and Vienna business restaurant until the tax is removed.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Shadow ()
Date: February 18, 2010 09:46AM

The mess was caused by BOTH republicans and democrats. Neither side was free of blame. If you're looking for a scapegoat, look at the rich and wealthy. You know, the ones that got bailed out AND got millions in bonuses.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: VEIK ()
Date: February 18, 2010 10:10AM

Are there any good food establishments in Fairfax City?

I mean really..

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: mcsmack ()
Date: February 18, 2010 12:11PM

Shadow Wrote:
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> The mess was caused by BOTH republicans and
> democrats. Neither side was free of blame. If
> you're looking for a scapegoat, look at the rich
> and wealthy. You know, the ones that got bailed
> out AND got millions in bonuses.

Sure why not. All blacks are gang members,Jews control world banking and media,and the government damn sure controls the weather too! F-ing rich people everyone should quit their jobs and go to work for the homeless,....or the government.

Shadow your a stupid fucking idiot. Because of people like you our country is so fucked up. Not the rich. You are going to be a stupid fucking idiot until the day your carcass starts rotting in the sun. So continue on wasting away your pathetic and useless life.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2010 12:42PM by mcsmack.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: GDH ()
Date: October 22, 2014 02:19PM

Be advised that the idiot Fairfax City food tax is now 10%!!! Virginia state tax is 5.3% with an additional .7% allowed for certain lcoations. I am not certain how the leftist operatives in Fairfax City are getting away with charging 10% Va sales tax for food.

Only an unamerican fool would sit idle about such outrageous tax gouging or you could claim that you are a surper-enlgihtened democrat who thinks higher taxes is the way to go.

GDH

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: arguing over dems and reps? ()
Date: October 22, 2014 02:28PM

Why are you arguing about who's gonna fuck you harder?

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Streetcar rider ()
Date: October 22, 2014 02:40PM

GDH Wrote:
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> Be advised that the idiot Fairfax City food tax is
> now 10%!!! Virginia state tax is 5.3% with an
> additional .7% allowed for certain lcoations. I
> am not certain how the leftist operatives in
> Fairfax City are getting away with charging 10% Va
> sales tax for food.
>
> Only an unamerican fool would sit idle about such
> outrageous tax gouging or you could claim that you
> are a surper-enlgihtened democrat who thinks
> higher taxes is the way to go.
>
> GDH


That's why we eat at home now.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Goo-goo-goo-GOOBER ()
Date: October 22, 2014 02:55PM

GDH Wrote:
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> Be advised that the idiot Fairfax City food tax is
> now 10%!!! Virginia state tax is 5.3% with an
> additional .7% allowed for certain lcoations. I
> am not certain how the leftist operatives in
> Fairfax City are getting away with charging 10% Va
> sales tax for food.

How dumb are you? Fairfax City has a local meals tax. It happens to be 4%. Other nearby areas with a meals tax include Vienna, Herndon, Falls Church, Manassas, Manassas Park, Alexandria, Arlington, and of course, the District. Across Virginia, 39 cities, 47 counties, and well over 100 towns have a meals tax. Virginia is a low tax state.

> Only an unamerican fool would sit idle about such
> outrageous tax gouging or you could claim that you
> are a surper-enlgihtened democrat who thinks
> higher taxes is the way to go.
> GDH

You're an imbecile.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Ted Ginn ()
Date: October 22, 2014 03:41PM

FFX CITY is a douce-bag community with terrible restaurants and bars that rip you off when you patronize them and then the Keystone Kops of FFX CITY write you speeding tickets for exceeding the speed limit by 5 MPH.

Douche-bag city that needs to be consolidated and abolished....ARMPIT of FFX COUNTY.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Clue? ()
Date: October 22, 2014 03:45PM

Ted Ginn Wrote:
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> FFX CITY is a douce-bag community with terrible
> restaurants and bars that rip you off when you
> patronize them and then the Keystone Kops of FFX
> CITY write you speeding tickets for exceeding the
> speed limit by 5 MPH. Douche-bag city that needs
> to be consolidated and abolished....ARMPIT of FFX
> COUNTY.

Have you thought of not going there anymore? Of course, if you're just out on work-release, you won't have that option.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Travis Broomhall ()
Date: October 22, 2014 03:55PM

I don't patronize any of the stores or restaurants in Mayberry RFD but my commute compels me to drive through this throwback stink of a town. Soon as you enter the city limits, the Barney Fife and the Mayberry cops are all over you bumper looking for a way to generate revenue for the corrupt city treasurer. AVOID THIS PUS-PIMPLE CITY AT ALL COSTS AND AT ALL TIMES.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Terminally dumb? ()
Date: October 22, 2014 04:05PM

Travis Broomhall Wrote:
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> I don't patronize any of the stores or restaurants
> in Mayberry RFD but my commute compels me to drive
> through this throwback stink of a town. Soon as
> you enter the city limits, the Barney Fife and the
> Mayberry cops are all over you bumper looking for
> a way to generate revenue for the corrupt city
> treasurer. AVOID THIS PUS-PIMPLE CITY AT ALL
> COSTS AND AT ALL TIMES.

Try making it a little harder for them to find something. Thousands upon thousands of people drive through Fairfax City every day and never have any problems at all. What do they know that you don't?

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Gotta Admit ()
Date: October 22, 2014 04:06PM

Fairfax City has pretty much no redeeming value other than providing bedrooms for commuters. The "old town" area consists of hideous old offices, sprawling private parking lots, and traffic jams. The rest of the city is ugly old strip malls. Most pedestrian-unfriendly town you could imagine. Not sure why anyone would go to a restaurant in Fairfax City.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Dusty Roads ()
Date: October 22, 2014 04:14PM

The poster is correct, with the notation, that those Keystone Kops start sitting in their squad cars at night to catch the customers exiting bars and clubs.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Diners Club ()
Date: October 22, 2014 09:10PM

Gotta Admit Wrote:
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> Fairfax City has pretty much no redeeming value
> other than providing bedrooms for commuters. The
> "old town" area consists of hideous old offices,
> sprawling private parking lots, and traffic jams.
> The rest of the city is ugly old strip malls. Most
> pedestrian-unfriendly town you could imagine. Not
> sure why anyone would go to a restaurant in
> Fairfax City.

Well, they have some good restaurants, even if they wouldn't appeal to your tastes. Otherwise, what do you think "historic" building ought to look like? Unless you're Disney building Frontierland, you can't build new historic buildings. The ones that haven't burned or fallen down over time are the ones you are stuck with. There is more and more public parking in Old Town, and aside from being kind of hilly, it is quite easy to walk around.

Meanwhile, what alternative to strip malls do you offer? They are a staple of everywhere regardless of income level, and have been for decades.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: Last call for alcohol ()
Date: October 22, 2014 09:14PM

Dusty Roads Wrote:
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> The poster is correct, with the notation, that
> those Keystone Kops start sitting in their squad
> cars at night to catch the customers exiting bars
> and clubs.

Is this different from what County cops do? Every bar everywhere is staked out at closing time, and the cops will follow somebody waiting for a reason to pull them over and see what's up. That's just a fact of life.

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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: causeican ()
Date: October 23, 2014 01:18AM

Gotta Admit Wrote:
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> Fairfax City has pretty much no redeeming value
> other than providing bedrooms for commuters. The
> "old town" area consists of hideous old offices,
> sprawling private parking lots, and traffic jams.
> The rest of the city is ugly old strip malls. Most
> pedestrian-unfriendly town you could imagine. Not
> sure why anyone would go to a restaurant in
> Fairfax City.

Just wait... [the future] ...and I’m pretty-sure the bottle-necks; dead-ends; enforced stopping c o m p l e t e l y laws; speed traps are designed to discourage through traffic because the City doesn’t want YOU tearing through town So GO A DIFFERENT WAY it’s only going to get worse. MoooAAAHhaha!! Get on 66 you Centreville resident
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Re: why is the tax 9% at restaurants located within City of Fairfax?
Posted by: The Answer ()
Date: October 23, 2014 06:55AM

Why? Because liberals feel like they spend the money better than the people who earn it, so are entitled to it. Thieves also feel like they can spend your money "better" than you. They take it too.

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