Tuesday, July 22, 2003

...is crap.

Fairfax County government officials said yesterday that they oppose a D.C.-government-proposed commuter tax and demanded an apology from a D.C. Council member who last week called Virginians “backward” and “greedy” for not supporting the levy.

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“Our neighbors to the north intend to exact a new source of revenue out of the pockets of thousands of Fairfax County residents employed in the nation’s capital in order to compensate for their own financial mismanagement,” Supervisors Michael R. Frey and Stuart Mendelsohn, Sully and Dranesville Republicans, said in a joint written statement.

Virginia has it’s own financial problems as does Maryland. We don’t need to be subsidizing the District’s failed budget. Now, there are some in DC who claim that the commuters are a drain on DC funds - I bed to differ. Rather, they help or balance it out because they pay for parking, taxis, food, supplies, etc within the city limits in a work day. Many of the things the commuter pays for are taxes already. They shouldn’t have to be taxed again.