I think by now most people realize it was a huge mistake to vote down the meals tax last time.

Trained douchebags can be hard to deprogram. The need for more diverse revenue streams hasn't gone anywhere though, so as meals tax nay-sayers are now coming to lament, the Board is looking at other means of accomplishing that same end. The stooges don't realize that this was all their own doing. Bunch of freaking dummies!

taxpayer 8605 Wrote:
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> I think by now most people realize it was a huge
> mistake to vote down the meals tax last time.


Just vote 4 Wexton! U'll get all the taxes U kin pay and even more U kain't pay!

Blowback from meals tax vote Wrote:
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> I'm a Trained douchebags can be hardwho doesn't want to be deprogramed[. The
> need for more diverse revenue streams hasn't gone
> anywhere though, so as meals tax nay-sayers are
> now coming to lament, the Board is looking at
> other means of accomplishing that same end. The[]bI'm a[/b]
> stooges don't realize that this was all their own
> doing. Bunch ofand a freaking dummyies!


FIFY

LibTARD NPC Wrote:
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> taxpayer 8605 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > I think by now most people realize it was a
> huge
> > mistake to vote down the meals tax last time.
>
>
> Just vote 4 Wexton! U'll get all the taxes U kin
> pay and even more U kain't pay!


Seems like everyone is going to vote for Wexton. The great thing about the meals tax is that half of it would have come from non-county residents. We need the meals tax desperately.

Revenue available to counties in Virginia is mostly from real estate and property taxes. In Fairfax, that is about 80 percent of what we have available to provide county services. The one opportunity we have to increase and diversify our revenue sources would be to implement a meals tax. This would bring us in line with the cities of Fairfax, Falls Church, Alexandria, Manassas, Manassas Park and the District, Arlington County, and the towns of Leesburg, Middleburg, Herndon and Vienna. Unlike cities and towns, counties in Virginia may adopt a meals tax only if approved by the voters. Without the meals tax other forms of taxation simply have to be increased.

Fixer of It for You Wrote:
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> FIFY

FIFY = ASSHOLE. A really big ASSHOLE,

taxpayer 8605 Wrote:
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> Seems like everyone is going to vote for Wexton.

Not everyone, but way more than enough to kick Babsy's can down the road,

> The great thing about the meals tax is that half
> of it would have come from non-county residents.
> We need the meals tax desperately.

Not half actually, but on the order of 25% of revenues would have come from non residents -- commuters, tourists, and business travellers mostly. Now all that revenue has to come from those of us who live in the County instead. Ouch! How dumb was that? A meals tax would also have hit hardest on those wealthy locals who can afford to dine out often and at expensive places. Maybe that's why so many fat cats were against it? Either way, it was a big mistake to vote the meals tax down. Fairfax County is about the only area jurisdiction that doesn't have a meals tax, so we support everywhere else when we eat out there, but those folks never have to pay us back. Makes no sense.

Revenue diversification is great. When over 50% of the money from the new revenue source is coming from the same source as over 50% of the existing revenue, you do not have revenue diversification. The County was never in a position to show how much of that tax revenue was coming from nonresidents who were not already paying taxes to the County because they never did a proper study to generate this information. They instead made up a figure based on information obtained from a study done for different purposes. Plus the meals tax was intended to increase revenues, not simply diversify them.

Menu, please... Wrote:
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> taxpayer 8605 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Seems like everyone is going to vote for
> Wexton.
>
> Not everyone, but way more than enough to kick
> Babsy's can down the road,
>
> > The great thing about the meals tax is that
> half
> > of it would have come from non-county
> residents.
> > We need the meals tax desperately.
>
> Not half actually, but on the order of 25% of
> revenues would have come from non residents --
> commuters, tourists, and business travellers
> mostly. Now all that revenue has to come from
> those of us who live in the County instead. Ouch!
> How dumb was that? A meals tax would also have
> hit hardest on those wealthy locals who can afford
> to dine out often and at expensive places. Maybe
> that's why so many fat cats were against it?
> Either way, it was a big mistake to vote the meals
> tax down. Fairfax County is about the only area
> jurisdiction that doesn't have a meals tax, so we
> support everywhere else when we eat out there, but
> those folks never have to pay us back. Makes no
> sense.

A great idea- since it is a regressive tax, the poor and minorities will be hit the hardest. since they frequent fast food more often then the elite, it is hurt the most. pretty soon they wont be able to live in Fairfax county...its almost like thats the plan.

You’d have to go to Mickey D’s fifty times to match a single check at an upscale restaurant.

Pro meals tax Wrote:
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> Fixer of It for You Wrote:
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> > FIFY
>
> FIFY = ASSHOLE. A really big ASSHOLE,


Howzittfeel to have a 'really big asshole' living in Ur head rent-free? Some1 who's 'aposta' be as smart & clever & witty as U tell us U R wooden even let a standard asshole live in his head rent-free, never mind a really big one.

Guess U ain't as smart as U say U R.

The way I understand it hotels that serve breakfast would have to chip in on that meals tax too. That puts a big chunk of the revenue on tourists and business travellers. Not having the meals tax costs Fairfax county millions in lost revenue from sources outside the area.

With the pending demolition of the Wolf Trap and Tequila Grande, they have decided the revenue generated by the meals tax would be negligable and not worth the effort. Furthermore, Rolling Thunder will no longer be held as the organizers have learned of the demise of the Wolf Trap. "The Wolf Trap was integral to the success of Rolling Thunder year after year. Many important decisions were made while waiting at the crosswalk at Nutely and Maple to go get beer and snacks at 7-11" said Rolling Thunder spokesman Sergeant Fourth Class Lee (USA, Ret.).

Breathing and taking a crap taxes would also generate more income.
Asswipes like the OP will soon post that we
NEED taxes on those activities.

Sensible people will simply post that you are an asshole. This is a low-tax area, and JOKERS like you still can’t handle it. Fail, fail, fail, fail, fail.

cancelled........ Wrote:
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> With the pending demolition of the Wolf Trap and
> Tequila Grande, they have decided the revenue
> generated by the meals tax would be negligable and
> not worth the effort. Furthermore, Rolling Thunder
> will no longer be held as the organizers have
> learned of the demise of the Wolf Trap. "The Wolf
> Trap was integral to the success of Rolling
> Thunder year after year. Many important decisions
> were made while waiting at the crosswalk at Nutely
> and Maple to go get beer and snacks at 7-11" said
> Rolling Thunder spokesman Sergeant Fourth Class
> Lee (USA, Ret.).


The town of Vienna has had a meals tax for years dumbshit.

Turn all the illegals over to the ICE and we won't need to increase taxes or create new ones.

wolf trap1 Wrote:
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> cancelled........ Wrote:
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> -----
> > With the pending demolition of the Wolf Trap
> and
> > Tequila Grande, they have decided the revenue
> > generated by the meals tax would be negligable
> and
> > not worth the effort. Furthermore, Rolling
> Thunder
> > will no longer be held as the organizers have
> > learned of the demise of the Wolf Trap. "The
> Wolf
> > Trap was integral to the success of Rolling
> > Thunder year after year. Many important
> decisions
> > were made while waiting at the crosswalk at
> Nutely
> > and Maple to go get beer and snacks at 7-11"
> said
> > Rolling Thunder spokesman Sergeant Fourth Class
> > Lee (USA, Ret.).
>
>
> The town of Vienna has had a meals tax for years
> dumbshit.

Ummm yeah. I will just leave it for you to figure out.

New taxes Wrote:
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> Breathing and taking a crap taxes would also
> generate more income.
> Asswipes like the OP will soon post that we
> NEED taxes on those activities.


They had a rain tax in Owe'Malleyland.

Tax Man Wrote:
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> Sensible people will simply post that you areI am an
> asshole. This is a lowhigh-tax area, and JOKERS like
> youme still can’t handle it in a reasonable argument. All I can do is Fail, fail, fail,
> fail, fail.


FIFY

taxpayer 8605 Wrote:
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> I think by now most people realize it was a huge
> mistake to vote down the meals tax last time.
Attachments:

HooLeo Wrote:
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> Turn all the illegals over to the ICE and we won't
> need to increase taxes or create new ones.


In reality the opposite is true. Undocumented Americans are important to our economy.

FIXER OF |T FOR YOU Wrote:
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> Tax Man Wrote:
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> > Sensible people will simply post that you
> areI am an
> > asshole. This is a lowhigh-tax
> area, and JOKERS like
> > youme still can’t handle it in a
> reasonable argument. All I can do is Fail,
> fail, fail,
> > fail, fail.
>
>
> FIFY


You toothless, backwoods Virginia people are clueless as fuck about taxes. You are living in a extremely low tax area.

The problem with the meals tax is how they sold it, they said property taxes would go DOWN. We all know that's a lie. If FXco had extra tax revenue, they would find a way to spend it. That's what you call tax and spend liberalism.

long island 12 Wrote:
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> You toothless, backwoods Virginia people are clueless as fuck
> about taxes. You are living in an extremely low tax area.

The majority of us here in NoVa have both healthy teeth and healthy incomes. We fully understand that we enjoy low-tax living in this area. The packs of backwater goober assholes that we haven't managed to stamp out yet are over-represented on this site.

Lies, all lies Wrote:
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> The problem with the meals tax is how they sold
> it, they said property taxes would go DOWN. We all
> know that's a lie. If FXco had extra tax revenue,
> they would find a way to spend it. That's what you
> call tax and spend liberalism.

That's wrong. Pro-tax groups pointed out that passing the meals tax would increase County revenues by almost $100 million, thereby reducing pressure on the Board to raise property tax rates.

That fact that you completely misunderstood what was being said is on YOU, and nobody else, you pathetic stupid shit!

Nothing is stopping anyone from paying more in tax than they owe. If you want to pay more, simply send a check to the County. That will show your commitment. Whining of FFXU does not demonstrate commitment.

Those who support a new tax are simply saying they want their neighbors to pay under threat of prison.

Nice people.

Spot the trailer-trash Wrote:
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> long island 12 Wrote:
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> > You toothless, backwoods Virginia people are
> clueless as fuck
> > about taxes. You are living in an extremely low
> tax area.
>
> The majority of us here in NoVa have both healthy
> teeth and healthy incomes. We fully understand
> that we enjoy low-tax living in this area. The
> packs of backwater goober assholes that we haven't
> managed to stamp out yet are over-represented on
> this site.

to each other. This guy's just as whacko as Gerry on the troll board.

Spot the trailer-trash Wrote:
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> long island 12 Wrote:
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> > You toothless, backwoods Virginia people areI'm
> clueless as fuck
> > about taxeseverything. Youwe are living in an extremely lowhigh
> tax area. Now take a peek below and see what my sock puppet has to say vvvvv


> Hi, I'm that guy's sock puppet ^^^^ See how witty I am?
> The majority of us here in NoVa have both healthy
> teeth and healthy incomes. We are fully programmed to "understand"
> that we "enjoy" lowhigh-tax living in this area. We know, as good Democrats, that we're supposed to enjoy paying taxes. Too bad Hillary didn't win so EVERYBODY could be required to enjoy paying taxes or get shipped off to the gulag The
> packs of backwaterI'm a programmed goober assholes that we haven't
> managed towith my programming stamp on my forehead out yet areall my trolling makes liberal opinions over-represented on
> this site.


FIFY--BOTH of 'em. Think you're clever, huh?

Not a whiner Wrote:
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> Nothing is stopping anyone from paying more in tax
> than they owe. If you want to pay more, simply send
> a check to the County. That will show your commitment.
> Whining of FFXU does not demonstrate commitment.

It's amazing that you don't realize how FUCKING LAME that is.

> Those who support a new tax are simply saying they
> want their neighbors to pay under threat of prison.

You are saying that you are a tax cheat? Sure sounds like it.

Meanwhile, the costs of County services increase each year with inflation and population increases. Revenue needs to expand each year simply to keep up. The meals tax offered a chance to pass some of those cost increases off onto non-residents who venture into and enjoy the County at our expense. BUt you assholes voted that down. How simply stupid of you.

^^^ You're not good at this.

So fucking stupid... Wrote:
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> Not a whiner Wrote:
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> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> > Those who support a new tax are simply saying
> they
> > want their neighbors to pay under threat of
> prison.
>
> You are saying that you are a tax cheat? Sure
> sounds like it.
>
>



Obviously, despite your so called "superior" education, you can't read English. He doesn't say anywhere he cheats on his taxes or doesn't pay. You're just one of these typical programmed DNC NPCs who's programmed to like paying taxes and is programmed to believe anyone who doesn't like paying taxes is obviously a tax cheat. If you like paying taxes, move to MoCo. You'd be much happier there. Everybody there likes paying taxes.

Why would the Board of Supervisors reduce taxes on real estate?

Do you really believe this is a low tax jurisdiction? What source are you using? Are you taking account of the very high cost of living?

What does the BOS need more money for?

It's no wonder that Fairfax can't attract more people to work and live here - it's not competitive, or attractive, or responsible with spending - see County Demographic report for data on population stagnation in FFX).

HEY! Illiterate buttholebreath! Wrote:
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> Obviously, despite your so called "superior" +education,
> you can't read English. He doesn't say anywhere he cheats
> on his taxes or doesn't pay.

Read for context as much as content, you low-grade moron.

> You're just one of these typical programmed DNC NPCs who's
> programmed to like paying taxes and is programmed to believe
> anyone who doesn't like paying taxes is obviously a tax cheat.

No, I'm just far better educated and much more experienced than you are. Tax cheats abound among right-wingers, and espcieally among those right-wingers who claim to run small businesses.

> If you like paying taxes, move to MoCo. You'd be much
> happier there. Everybody there likes paying taxes.

No, they don't. But the sensible ones -- a group that you would not likely have much familiarity with -- understand that public goods and services are a necessity to any sort of quality of life, and that taxes are the means of bringing those public goods and services into existence. It seems that you are simply too stupid to understand that much without a whole lot of help.

Another clueless chump... Wrote:
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> HEY! Illiterate buttholebreath! Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> >
> Read for context as much as content, you low-grade
> moron.
>
>
> No, I'm just far better educated and much more
> experienced than you are. Tax cheats abound among
> right-wingers, and espcieally among those
> right-wingers who claim to run small businesses.
> er there. Everybody there likes paying
> taxes.
>
> No, they don't. But the sensible ones -- a group
> that you would not likely have much familiarity
> with -- understand that public goods and services
> are a necessity to any sort of quality of life,
> and that taxes are the means of bringing those
> public goods and services into existence. It
> seems that you are simply too stupid to understand
> that much without a whole lot of help.



There's nothing even in any context that implies he's cheating on his taxes. Simple Simon. You just tried to read it into what he wrote even though it's not there and there's no hint of it, either. Just because people complain about taxes doesn't mean they don't pay them. You liberals have made all kinds of efforts to make us like paying taxes, since merely doing what you say isn't enough for you, we have to like it, too. No thoughts of our own, we have to think like the Democrats tell us to think.


No, NPC, you're programmed and indoctrinated and I'm not. The only thing you have more experience with is being programmed and that's b/c I won't allow myself to be programmed. If you think only right wingers cheat on their taxes, it proves you're a programmed DNC NPC. Sharpton is just one example of a leftie who cheats on his taxes. There are more. Sharpton is a darling of the DNC, so nobody on your side mentions him. It's typical of your kinds hypocrisy.

Yes they do, why do you think they have so many taxes in MoCo? Spendthrift Simpletons and dissolute shit for brains like you don't understand what sensible people already know which is the gov't is supposed to live within its means and not give away the people's money to themselves, their cronies and other undeserving groups that vote for them. DC has all these taxes and is the most corrupt, inefficient gov't in this area and its run by liberals like you.

What a fucking moronic retard. There's a reason people in the know call you "libtards".

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> Why would the Board of Supervisors reduce taxes on real estate?

Ah, so you admit to your basic ignorance. That's a good start. What the Board does meanwhile is identify what it believes to be proper levels of expenditure over the budget period. Then it looks at the levels of revenue that it can expect to receive. As the County receives such a inordinately large share of its revenues from real estate taxes, those rates are adjusted to try to create a balance. If you hadn't had your head just as far up your ass then as you do now, you would have noticed that the Board reduced rates several times in the years before the Great Bush Recession.

> Do you really believe this is a low tax jurisdiction?

It's a low tax AREA, That includes all forms of taxation. You probably ate not familiar with any, but check any credible source you like.

> Are you taking account of the very high cost of living?

The cost of living here is 'very high' in comparison to East Dustburg. Perhaps that is where you are from? For a major metro area with the array of first class amenities that we have, our COL is quite modest. Of course, there are still many who can't really afford to live here due to qualifying only for unskilled, low-wage employment.

> What does the BOS need more money for?

Come on. Nobody is actually THAT dumb!

> It's no wonder that Fairfax can't attract more
> people to work and live here - it's not
> competitive, or attractive, or responsible with
> spending - see County Demographic report for data
> on population stagnation in FFX).

Population continues to boom in Northern Virginia and shrink in many rural localities in the southern and southwestern parts of the state. Since 2010, Loudoun County's population has increased more than 27 percent, to more than 380,000. That percentage increase ranks fourth among all U.S. counties with at least 200,000 people. Since 2010, Fairfax County's population has grown more than 6 percent, to almost 1.15 million. The County is larger by population than eight states. National and state population growth since 2010 has been about 3%.

Another clueless chump... Wrote:
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> shrub Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> >
>
>
> Ah, so you admit to your basic ignorance. That's a
> good start. What the Board does meanwhile is
> identify what it believes to be proper levels of
> expenditure over the budget period. Then it looks
> at the levels of revenue that it can expect to
> receive. As the County receives such a
> inordinately large share of its revenues from real
> estate taxes, those rates are adjusted to try to
> create a balance. If you hadn't had your head
> just as far up your ass then as you do now, you
> would have noticed that the Board reduced rates
> several times in the years before the Great Bush
> Recession.
>
> >
>
>
> It's a low tax AREA, That includes all forms of
> taxation. You probably ate not familiar with any,
> but check any credible source you like.
>
> >
>
>
> The cost of living here is 'very high' in
> comparison to East Dustburg. Perhaps that is where
> you are from? For a major metro area with the
> array of first class amenities that we have, our
> COL is quite modest. Of course, there are still
> many who can't really afford to live here due to
> qualifying only for unskilled, low-wage
> employment.
>
> >
>
> Come on. Nobody is actually THAT dumb!
>





^^^Obvious troll is obvious.

You're still illiterate Wrote:
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> There's a reason people in the know call you "libtards".

There's a reason why you aren't ever worth paying any attention to. That reason is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D-I-T-Y. You are as dumb as a fucking stick.

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Rubes and goobs... Wrote:
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> You're still illiterate Wrote:
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> > There's a reason people in the know call you
> "libtards".
>
> There's a reason why you aren't ever worth paying
> any attention to. That reason is spelled
> S-T-U-P-I-D-I-T-Y. You are as dumb as a fucking
> stick.


Yeah, well YOU paid attention, illiterate. You can't even read your own posts. If you want someone dumb as a fucking stick, take a selfie. Never mind, you're probably too stupid to even work a cell phone.

What a fucking dolt.

Rubes and goobs... Wrote:
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> You're still illiterate Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > There's a reason people in the know call you
> "libtards".
>
> There's a reason why you aren't ever worth paying
> any attention to. That reason is spelled
> S-T-U-P-I-D-I-T-Y. You are as dumb as a fucking
> stick.


^^^It's obvious this obviously obvious troll is obvious, obviously.

Too stupid. Being laughed at over and over is all the attention you’ll ever earn. You’re basically a 20 on the old 20-to-80 scale.

Rubes and goobs Wrote:
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> Too stupid. Being laughed at over and over is all
> the attention you’ll ever earn. You’re
> basically a 20 on the old 20-to-80 scale.


You're the one people are laughing at, illiterate. Everybody here knows what a dolt you are. Maybe they'll introduce you to Gerry and we can have 2 abject dolts here.

You’re a useless nobody. You bring exactly nothing to the table. Except reasons to laugh.

Rubes and goobs Wrote:
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> You’re a useless nobody. You bring exactly
> nothing to the table. Except reasons to laugh.


^^^Must be looking in the mirror as he types.

Programmed = "We need more taxes"

Just pitiful on so many levels.

There is ZERO need to "diversify" anything.

No where in the entire USA "needs" to tax people more. All government NEEDS to cut their size/cost to create funds.

Anyone who disagrees with the above is either ignorant of reality or a simple sheep being led to the slaughter.

By all means let’s have more taxes so that there will be more money to spend on illegal immigrants. OP is a fool

You're still illiterate Wrote:
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> ^^^Must be looking in the mirror as he types.

Hahahaha! Thanks for yet another laugh, you impotent and impoverished little dumbfuck. You are otherwise just completely fucking worthless.

need taxes LOL Wrote:
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> Programmed = "We need more taxes"

We need the right amount of taxes. Contrary to the addled beliefs of ridiculous dumbfucks, that amount is greater than zero. Our elected reps have the job of determining the needs of their constituents. Unless they are all lying asses like Trump, they then have the obligation of creating the revenues needed to meet those needs. This is perhaps the most elementary process that governments go through, but morons have no problem screwing it up entirely. What a bunch of babbling uneducated losers.

taxpayer 8605 Wrote:
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> I think by now most people realize it was a huge
> mistake to vote down the meals tax last time.

If you want the tax, just write a check to the county.

Just stay the F out of MY wallet.

Tired of subsidizing failed dems Wrote:
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> If you want the tax, just write a check to the
> county. Just stay the F out of MY wallet.

Not how it works, Gumby. You were taught better than that in 3rd grade civics.

GOV 101... Wrote:
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> need taxes LOL Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > Programmed = "We need more taxes"
>
> We need the right amount of taxes.
>
> Our elected reps
> have the job of determining the needs of their
> constituents.
> they then have the obligation of
> creating the revenues needed to meet those needs.
>
>
>
>


and like a good little DNC trained doggie, you believe that "R lektidd reppuhzennuhtives" ALWAYS do the right thing if they have D after their name so when there's mo' taxes, that B MO' MONEY! so it MUST B good!

What an indoctrinated, programmed, trained doggie loser.

Pointer outer of things Wrote:
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> and like a good little DNC trained doggie, you
> believe that "R lektidd reppuhzennuhtives" ALWAYS
> do the right thing if they have D after their name
> so when there's mo' taxes, that B MO' MONEY! so it
> MUST B good!

You're just making a total ass of yourself again. Because that's all you really CAN do.

> What an indoctrinated, programmed, trained doggie loser.

Hardly. I'm just one of your many superiors. By education and by experience. Also by wealth, status, and influence.

pgfyu

GOV 101... Wrote:
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>
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> >
>
> >
>
> You'reI'm just making a total ass of myourself again.
> Because that's all Iyou really CAN do.
>
> > What an indoctrinated, programmed, trained
> doggie loser.
>
> Hardly. I'm just one of your many superiors. By
> education and by experience. Also by wealth,
> status, and influence.


FIFY


& on the second one, you keep repeating the same bullshit about yourself. Maybe 1 or 2 people here believe you, but nobody else does. U C, we have a lot of trolls here who are far more experienced at it than you and can see right thru it.

You're nothing but a poopseller and nobody wants to buy what you're selling. It's total BS, everybody knows it.

You're Mr. Wealthy Influential Educated Retiree. Glad to meetcha', I'm Tamerlane.

That FIFY stuff was pretty clever in 1997. Get some new material retard.

FIFY fool u Wrote:
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> That FIFY stuff was pretty clever in 1997. Get
> some new material retard.


^^^Obvious sock puppet is obvious.

Fairfax city alone generates about 5 million a year from their meals tax. Fairfax county could gain 5 times that figure each year. The county will harvest the funds from us one way or another so the meals tax is the least painful way to do it. We still have enough brain dead conservatives in this county to vote down a meals tax but thankfully they are dying off steadily and being replaced with educated and intelligent liberals.

County can cut excessive expenditures and not need a meals tax. Some ideas:

* County does not need to support translation into dozens of languages. If you are going to live here, have at least one family member that speaks English reasonably well as a translator. Savings of millions of dollars.

* Eliminate transgender initiatives in the schools. Savings, at least hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.

* There are Fairfax Connector bus routes that regularly have 10 or less passengers. As one area, western Fairfax County off peak hours. As taxpayers, the county is paying the contractor $115 per hour to run this service that serves so few.

VUUFG Wrote:
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> County can cut excessive expenditures and not need
> a meals tax. Some ideas:
>
> * County does not need to support translation into
> dozens of languages. If you are going to live
> here, have at least one family member that speaks
> English reasonably well as a translator. Savings
> of millions of dollars.
>
> * Eliminate transgender initiatives in the
> schools. Savings, at least hundreds of thousands
> or millions of dollars.
>
> * There are Fairfax Connector bus routes that
> regularly have 10 or less passengers. As one
> area, western Fairfax County off peak hours. As
> taxpayers, the county is paying the contractor
> $115 per hour to run this service that serves so
> few.


The problem with these "thoughts" of yours is that they would cost the county money in the long run.

problem is................. Wrote:
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> VUUFG Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > County can cut excessive expenditures and not
> need
> > a meals tax. Some ideas:
> >
> > * County does not need to support translation
> into
> > dozens of languages. If you are going to live
> > here, have at least one family member that
> speaks
> > English reasonably well as a translator.
> Savings
> > of millions of dollars.
> >
> > * Eliminate transgender initiatives in the
> > schools. Savings, at least hundreds of
> thousands
> > or millions of dollars.
> >
> > * There are Fairfax Connector bus routes that
> > regularly have 10 or less passengers. As one
> > area, western Fairfax County off peak hours.
> As
> > taxpayers, the county is paying the contractor
> > $115 per hour to run this service that serves
> so
> > few.
>
>
> The problem with these "thoughts" of yours is that
> they would cost the county money in the long run.

Please explain for us whose minds are dense.

VUUFG Wrote:
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> County can cut excessive expenditures and not need
> a meals tax. Some ideas:

> County does not need to support translation into
> dozens of languages.

How about five, you ignorant dumbfuck? And consider that FCPS needs to communicate with both students and parents and that more than half of all elementary school students speak a language other than English at home. You Mayflower phonies are already a minority at that level and the level is climbing fast.

> If you are going to live here, have at least one family
> member that speaks English reasonably well as a translator.

How about you have at least one person smarter than a grapefruit living at your house, dumbfuck. Can you go along with that?

> * Eliminate transgender initiatives in the
> schools. Savings, at least hundreds of thousands
> or millions of dollars.

Thanks for narrowing that down so well for us, you waste-of-time asshole. Actual costs are of course trivial.

> * There are Fairfax Connector bus routes that
> regularly have 10 or less passengers.

'Less' refers to amounts, churl. 'Fewer' refers to countable items. And why don't we also save money by not enforcing speed limits? You know it's only a small number of douchebags who try to drive all that fast. Why use all that expensive manpower and technology to go after something as trivial as speeding?

Sorry, moral people do not listen to and ignore arguments presented by name callers and those using foul language (Period).

Go fuck yourself, Father. Nobody buys that crap. You are just another low-life rat caught in a trap.

Security, get this rude, insensitive LOLife out of this forum.

Trump is a dick. It's as plain as day to people with any sense at all.

JC3VT Wrote:
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> Sorry, moral people do not listen to and ignore
> arguments presented by name callers and those
> using foul language (Period).


Especially when the name caller and foul language user takes on an air of superiority while gives other people a bunch of grief over their name calling and use of foul language. There's a name for that: hypocrisy.

FIFY = ASSHOLE

Here's a novel idea. The county should spend less money than they take in.

How about a moratorium on unnecessary traffic roundabouts?

Those darned Democrats.

Those with IQ's below 50 seem to struggle with round-abouts. The rest of us just take them in stride. After all, a dimmer-switch is a more complicated thing to have to work with.

Taxing food is nothing. Wait 'til 2020 if Libs win; there will be a tax on the air you breathe. No joke, it's in the works. A carbon tax on everyone. Liberals will use the money for hiring all their relatives to implement it, and the excess on gated Liberal Elite communities and posh junkets.

You guys are so screwed.

Carbon taxes provide a market-based means for those who pollute to become those who clean up. How clever, right?

VUUFG Wrote:
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> County can cut excessive expenditures and not need
> a meals tax. Some ideas:
>
> * County does not need to support translation into
> dozens of languages. If you are going to live
> here, have at least one family member that speaks
> English reasonably well as a translator. Savings
> of millions of dollars.
>
> * Eliminate transgender initiatives in the
> schools. Savings, at least hundreds of thousands
> or millions of dollars.
>
> * There are Fairfax Connector bus routes that
> regularly have 10 or less passengers. As one
> area, western Fairfax County off peak hours. As
> taxpayers, the county is paying the contractor
> $115 per hour to run this service that serves so
> few.


Remember that the USA has no official language so those translators are quite necessary.

Try to eliminate the money being spent on the transgender bathrooms that are going in an watch how many lawsuits will have to be defended. It is much cheaper to keep making the modifications.

All bus routes have slow times. The last thing we need with all the traffic we have around here is fewer bus routes.

How dumb are you? Wrote:
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> Carbon taxes provide a market-based means for
> those who pollute to become those who clean up.
> How clever, right?


^^^Obvious troll is obvious.

We need higher taxes!

Taxes are a necessity. The plan is to collect them on a rational basis. Idiots are no help with that at all.

Pity that government is unable to live within its means, like citizens are forced to do. Or, do more with less like most businesses...

MOSTLY BECAUSE OF TAXES!

Yeah, you’d be one of the idiots.

Revenue agent Wrote:
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> . The plan is to collect them
> on a rational basis. Idiots are no help with that
> at all.


Liberals like you aren't either. You don't want to collect them on a rational basis. And when you collect them, you don't spend them wisely. Besides pocketing the money, you give out whatever's left as handouts to your pet voting blocs.

Yup, you're CLEARLY one of the idiots.

Calm down everyone. I'm sure the BOS will do the right thing and raise property taxes to make up the shortfall.

LOL!

BS Detective Wrote:
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> By all means let’s have more taxes so that there
> will be more money to spend on illegal immigrants.
> OP is a fool


Again, apologize for being a fucking idiot here too.

non-Fairfax Co. resident Wrote:
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> Calm down everyone. I'm sure the BOS will do the
> right thing and raise property taxes to make up
> the shortfall.
>
> LOL!


You are right. The BOS is going to get the funding they need one way or another. That is why the meals tax is such a good tax. Nearly half the revenue will come from outside the county.
These fucking conservatives that think any tax is a bad tax really fucked us all over by voting down the meals tax. Now we all have to pay more.

The biggest problem with Fairfax County is.... The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. There is already a hotel occupancy tax and they were advised to just raise that a little bit. Most people staying here are coming for business purposes and their employer is going to pick up the tab.

The Donkeys in the Taj Mahal actually think there are tourists staying in Fairfax County. Newsflash, its incidental. They're coming to visit DC. The only thing worth seeing in this county is the Mount Vernon Estate and the Udvar Hazy branch of the Air & Space museum. That's it.

Believe me I tried. You can't fix stupid.

I don't want to pay any more taxes.

nOT liker of taxes Wrote:
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> I don't want to pay any more taxes.


Nobody cares what you want or don't want. Taxes are going up and you will pay them or you will have to go to prison for awhile. Taxes are pretty low in this area you should be happy to pay them.

Just be happy you don’t live in PG county FAGGGGGETS!
So much of their law enforcement budget goes to policing.
Too much crime there

The taxes you pay throughout your life in this country are the greatest bargain you will ever get.
You get a whole lot for the little you pay. There is always room for slightly higher taxes.

Localadvocate Wrote:
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> There is already a hotel occupancy tax and they were
> advised to just raise that a little bit.

Elasticity of demand relative to hotel occupancy taxes is significant. As it can be seen up front by individual and corporate decision-makers, anyone advising any increase at all was economically ignorant.

> The Donkeys in the Taj Mahal actually think there
> are tourists staying in Fairfax County. Newsflash,
> its incidental.

You have not done your homework. Tourism is actually quite a big deal in Fairfax County. Tourists spend more than $3 billion (with a 'b') here each year.

Imagine if the county was more white. Less taxes and better off.

Imagine of people like you were smart enough to have decent incomes and own decent homes.

Why don't they pay a meals rax Wrote:
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> Localadvocate Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > There is already a hotel occupancy tax and they
> were
> > advised to just raise that a little bit.
>
> Elasticity of demand relative to hotel occupancy
> taxes is significant. As it can be seen up front
> by individual and corporate decision-makers,
> anyone advising any increase at all was
> economically ignorant.
>
> > The Donkeys in the Taj Mahal actually think
> there
> > are tourists staying in Fairfax County.
> Newsflash,
> > its incidental.
>
> You have not done your homework. Tourism is
> actually quite a big deal in Fairfax County.
> Tourists spend more than $3 billion (with a 'b')
> here each year.


I can easily believe that. Here at the Wolftrap we have a core group of about 40 tradesman that stay here Monday through Thursday for their jobs but the rest of rooms rent to tourists mostly. Check out our vacation package specials,

https://www.viennawolftraphotel.com/en-us/packages

Better hurry over there one last time. Like all those mattress stores, the Vienna Wolftrap Hotel is going, going, gone. I wonder if there will be yet another first-class dining option built on the site.

....If you did not vote or voted against the meals tax you have no right to complain about high taxes in Fairfax county.

Hmmm... Wrote:
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> Imagine of people like you were smart enough to
> have decent incomes and own decent homes.

My retirement and stock portfolio are just fine Jose.

Taxation is the Fentanyl of the ruling class.

Problem is, it's us who are being killed by it.

If you cannot afford to live here, don't.

Brown Onion Wrote:
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> My retirement and stock portfolio are just fine Jose.

By your own 18-inch yardstick?

The vote will come around again after some further years of having owners and renters pay for all the freight. The wisdom of having non-residents such as commuters, tourists, and business travelers pitch in to pick up part of the tab will eventually dawn on the County, as it has in almost every other jurisdiction in the area.

Plainly overcooked Wrote:
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> Brown Onion Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > My retirement and stock portfolio are just fine
> Jose.
>
> By your own 18-inch yardstick?


Mow my grass, use the weed whacker and drink some piss Coronas.