Comments on: Manager’s Proposed Budget to Include 3.2 Cent Tax Hike

By: ChefJ

ChefJ — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:13:58 +0000

…AND NOT RAISE THE VEHICLE TAX RATE!!!! LOL

By: ChefJ

ChefJ — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:06:40 +0000

Shameful!

By: ChefJ

ChefJ — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:05:42 +0000

EGGGZactly Greg!!! And is isn’t like the county doesn’t set the assessment rate. Was there really an effort to hint at Arlington having a lower real estate tax burden than other jurisdictions? What a farce.

By: BBMS

BBMS — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:44:31 +0000

The rants will not be gone if the aquatics center has the same type of revenue shortfall as Artisphere.

The logic is the same: government claims people want an Artisphere; usage figures show otherwise and then it becomes a bigger drag on the budget then they had initially forecast. Will people use the aquatics center? Yes. Will the revenue be as much as the county is banking on? That is the important question.

By: nom de guerre

nom de guerre — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:42:32 +0000

Just like the Artisphere?

By: speonjosh

speonjosh — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:38:32 +0000

I’m not sure there is a government jurisdiction in the country (nor many privately owned businesses) that would agree that “structural imbalances” lead to bond referendums to fund capital projects. It’s SOP. Sort of like how you buy your house. The asset is expected to last at least thirty years, so paying for it over thirty years is reasonable. Same with a park, road, etc. People can come here and rant all they want about the aquatic center, but will it get used? Most likely, yes. The rants will all be gone and forgotten in ten years, but the aquatic park will still be humming along, providing recreational and other benefits to thousands of users a year.

By: speonjosh

speonjosh — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:33:32 +0000

All right, $85B a month. Definitely a tremendous and disturbing number. It certainly seems unsustainable.

By: speonjosh

speonjosh — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:30:02 +0000

Patrick – huh? I’m failing to grasp your overall point of view on this issue. Should Arlington only have two board members and that would mean it’s no longer mob rule?

CW – huh? Who are “these people?”

By: speonjosh

speonjosh — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:27:32 +0000

Kat -

Yeah, the District bag law has been in place for three years and businesses report a sharp drop in the number of plastic bags used by customers.

It worked. And it worked because it is so simple.

By: Lucifer Bernanke

Lucifer Bernanke — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:36:49 +0000

lol —- no one man knows what to ‘replace’ the Fed with but I’m 100% sure that open discussion IN PUBLIC FORUMS by the top financial and economic brains in our country would be much better than a secret, PRIVATE central bank run by the British Crown, Rothschilds, etc.

Don’t you????