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Does NOVA pay higher taxes than other areas of the state?
Posted by:
Joke Insurance
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Date: December 13, 2015 12:03AM
This question comes after I found and read this article, circa 2008: http://www.washingtonian.com/2008/11/01/will-northern-virginia-become-the-51st-state/
If the area still does, where can I find detailed information the amount of taxes NOVA pays, compared to the rest of the state?
Thanks.
If the area still does, where can I find detailed information the amount of taxes NOVA pays, compared to the rest of the state?
Thanks.
Re: Does NOVA pay higher taxes than other areas of the state?
Posted by:
Mixed bag
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Date: December 13, 2015 05:36AM
We aren't all the same. We pay state and county taxes, but if you live in a town, you pay town taxes as well, and if you live in a city, you don't pay county taxes, but pay city taxes instead. There are also variable fuels and meals taxes and various special tax districts that help fund specific projects or services.
Re: Does NOVA pay higher taxes than other areas of the state?
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Yes Dolly, the taxes are higher.
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Date: December 13, 2015 05:42AM
Higher population and income, then higher taxes. Carpetbaggers moving here to seek enployement puts stress on the area.
Don't ask stupid questions.
Don't ask stupid questions.
Re: Does NOVA pay higher taxes than other areas of the state?
Posted by:
Thank you, New Jersey
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Date: December 13, 2015 06:13AM
Yes Dolly, the taxes are higher. Wrote:
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> Higher population and income, then higher taxes.
> Carpetbaggers moving here to seek enployement puts
> stress on the area. Don't ask stupid questions.
LOL @ "carpetbaggers". How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree? The big city is a people-magnet. Particularly the big cities that have open, progressive, bohemian areas and attitudes around them. Nobody ever lined up to live in some backward, bigoted, dust-bowl. These "carpetbaggers" of yours are what give the region its importance and its social and economic vitality. And very likely your sorry-ass job as well. Without them, NoVa would still be just some off-hand branch of Appalachia.
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> Higher population and income, then higher taxes.
> Carpetbaggers moving here to seek enployement puts
> stress on the area. Don't ask stupid questions.
LOL @ "carpetbaggers". How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree? The big city is a people-magnet. Particularly the big cities that have open, progressive, bohemian areas and attitudes around them. Nobody ever lined up to live in some backward, bigoted, dust-bowl. These "carpetbaggers" of yours are what give the region its importance and its social and economic vitality. And very likely your sorry-ass job as well. Without them, NoVa would still be just some off-hand branch of Appalachia.
Re: Does NOVA pay higher taxes than other areas of the state?
Posted by:
Urine idiot
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Date: December 13, 2015 07:48AM
Thank you, New Jersey Wrote:
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> Yes Dolly, the taxes are higher. Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Higher population and income, then higher
> taxes.
> > Carpetbaggers moving here to seek enployement
> puts
> > stress on the area. Don't ask stupid
> questions.
>
> LOL @ "carpetbaggers". How you gonna keep 'em
> down on the farm after they've seen Paree? The
> big city is a people-magnet. Particularly the big
> cities that have open, progressive, bohemian areas
> and attitudes around them. Nobody ever lined up
> to live in some backward, bigoted, dust-bowl.
> These "carpetbaggers" of yours are what give the
> region its importance and its social and economic
> vitality. And very likely your sorry-ass job as
> well. Without them, NoVa would still be just some
> off-hand branch of Appalachia.
Yes, you have no idea what a carpet bagger is. Gotta be a lib.
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> Yes Dolly, the taxes are higher. Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Higher population and income, then higher
> taxes.
> > Carpetbaggers moving here to seek enployement
> puts
> > stress on the area. Don't ask stupid
> questions.
>
> LOL @ "carpetbaggers". How you gonna keep 'em
> down on the farm after they've seen Paree? The
> big city is a people-magnet. Particularly the big
> cities that have open, progressive, bohemian areas
> and attitudes around them. Nobody ever lined up
> to live in some backward, bigoted, dust-bowl.
> These "carpetbaggers" of yours are what give the
> region its importance and its social and economic
> vitality. And very likely your sorry-ass job as
> well. Without them, NoVa would still be just some
> off-hand branch of Appalachia.
Yes, you have no idea what a carpet bagger is. Gotta be a lib.
Re: Does NOVA pay higher taxes than other areas of the state?
Posted by:
Joke Insurance
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Date: December 13, 2015 09:43AM
Yes Dolly, the taxes are higher. Wrote:
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> Higher population and income, then higher taxes.
> Carpetbaggers moving here to seek enployement puts
> stress on the area.
> Don't ask stupid questions.
You must be a silly Liberal.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/13/2015 09:43AM by Joke Insurance.
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> Higher population and income, then higher taxes.
> Carpetbaggers moving here to seek enployement puts
> stress on the area.
> Don't ask stupid questions.
You must be a silly Liberal.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/13/2015 09:43AM by Joke Insurance.
Re: Does NOVA pay higher taxes than other areas of the state?
Posted by:
where do you think…
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Date: December 13, 2015 10:47AM
FCPS gets money to pay for turf fields, band trips, conferences, fancy meals, consultants, administrators, instructional coaches, and Karen Garza's $2,000 a month housing allowance?
TAXES. FCPS cons the Board of Supervisors into setting high tax rates. FCPS has been pushing for a meals tax for the schools, but Sharon Bulova knows it will not pass. FCPS has been trying to get its own taxation authority, but guess, what, the two school board members pushing for it and working on it, Patty Reed and Ted Velkoff, got voted out of office in the last election!
TAXES. FCPS cons the Board of Supervisors into setting high tax rates. FCPS has been pushing for a meals tax for the schools, but Sharon Bulova knows it will not pass. FCPS has been trying to get its own taxation authority, but guess, what, the two school board members pushing for it and working on it, Patty Reed and Ted Velkoff, got voted out of office in the last election!
Re: Does NOVA pay higher taxes than other areas of the state?
Posted by:
Joke Insurance
()
Date: December 13, 2015 10:56AM
At the most basic level - Yes, thanks to the "big win" transportation bill from Bob McDonnell, we get to pay extra sales tax to pay for Northern VA road projects.
Don't fix the ~$0.20 on the dollar we get back from Richmond. Just tax us again and tell us we'll get to keep it in the area this time. High five your local politician for this one.
FWIW, the Hampton Roads area got the same "fix" from Richmond.
Don't fix the ~$0.20 on the dollar we get back from Richmond. Just tax us again and tell us we'll get to keep it in the area this time. High five your local politician for this one.
FWIW, the Hampton Roads area got the same "fix" from Richmond.
Re: Does NOVA pay higher taxes than other areas of the state?
Posted by:
Carpetbagging Virginian
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Date: December 13, 2015 12:31PM
Proportionally, with the exception of the extra sales tax for transportation along with special tax districts for local projects (like the ones for utilities and the Potomac Yards metro station), Northern Virginia doesn't pay more in taxes than the rest of the state. There is no county tax like MD, maybe a town tax (but these are all over the state), and everyone pays income tax at the same 5.75% rate across VA. Personal property taxes on vehicles and real estate taxes paid to the county are easily managed by driving an older car/truck and by not buying too much house.
Now the real problem is that the VA income tax revenues get spread around the state and does not get spent proportionally in where it was collected. Pretty much everywhere in Virginia beyond Manassas and south of the Rappahannock River has freshly paved roads with very little traffic, dozens of public water depts all over serving only a few thousand homes, and T1 fiber internet availability running along almost every US and state highway that's practically free to small businesses. Someone's paying for all this, but it certainly isn't the households outside of Northern Virginia that have an annual HHI of around $30-35k/year (and even much lower than that in the 15 counties of far Southwest VA).
The vast amount of income generated and earned in Northern Virginia basically keeps the Virginia west and south of Charlottesville from being Mississippi.
Now the real problem is that the VA income tax revenues get spread around the state and does not get spent proportionally in where it was collected. Pretty much everywhere in Virginia beyond Manassas and south of the Rappahannock River has freshly paved roads with very little traffic, dozens of public water depts all over serving only a few thousand homes, and T1 fiber internet availability running along almost every US and state highway that's practically free to small businesses. Someone's paying for all this, but it certainly isn't the households outside of Northern Virginia that have an annual HHI of around $30-35k/year (and even much lower than that in the 15 counties of far Southwest VA).
The vast amount of income generated and earned in Northern Virginia basically keeps the Virginia west and south of Charlottesville from being Mississippi.
Re: Does NOVA pay higher taxes than other areas of the state?
Posted by:
I don't think so
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Date: December 13, 2015 07:46PM
Carpetbagging Virginian Wrote:
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> Pretty much everywhere in Virginia
> beyond Manassas and south of the Rappahannock
> River has freshly paved roads with very little
> traffic, dozens of public water depts all over
> serving only a few thousand homes, and T1 fiber
> internet availability running along almost every
> US and state highway that's practically free to
> small businesses.
Are you just makin shit up you stupid fuck?
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> Pretty much everywhere in Virginia
> beyond Manassas and south of the Rappahannock
> River has freshly paved roads with very little
> traffic, dozens of public water depts all over
> serving only a few thousand homes, and T1 fiber
> internet availability running along almost every
> US and state highway that's practically free to
> small businesses.
Are you just makin shit up you stupid fuck?
Re: Does NOVA pay higher taxes than other areas of the state?
Posted by:
YMjdF
()
Date: December 13, 2015 08:25PM
Thank you, New Jersey Wrote:
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>
> LOL @ "carpetbaggers". How you gonna keep 'em
> down on the farm after they've seen Paree? The
> big city is a people-magnet. Particularly the big
> cities that have open, progressive, bohemian areas
> and attitudes around them. Nobody ever lined up
> to live in some backward, bigoted, dust-bowl.
> These "carpetbaggers" of yours are what give the
> region its importance and its social and economic
> vitality. And very likely your sorry-ass job as
> well. Without them, NoVa would still be just some
> off-hand branch of Appalachia.
Around here it's that the government is feeding a ton of money to defense and other contractors. "Progressive" and "bohemian" are some of the least applicable terms ever used to describe the DC area.
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>
> LOL @ "carpetbaggers". How you gonna keep 'em
> down on the farm after they've seen Paree? The
> big city is a people-magnet. Particularly the big
> cities that have open, progressive, bohemian areas
> and attitudes around them. Nobody ever lined up
> to live in some backward, bigoted, dust-bowl.
> These "carpetbaggers" of yours are what give the
> region its importance and its social and economic
> vitality. And very likely your sorry-ass job as
> well. Without them, NoVa would still be just some
> off-hand branch of Appalachia.
Around here it's that the government is feeding a ton of money to defense and other contractors. "Progressive" and "bohemian" are some of the least applicable terms ever used to describe the DC area.