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[Mark was here]

What is a meals tax exactly?

[freespirited]

Would you gladly pay more for a cheeseburger today if it keeps your local librarian working tomorrow?

Nope. And BTW how many persons employed by the Crazy County make >100K/year?

[muawiyah]

Fairfax County board and "staff" ~~

[Nervous Tick]

>> Hyland said the budget picture is so grim that voters might be more willing than in the past to support a meals tax.

You know what, Hyland? I bet voters would be even MORE willing to FIRE about 35% of all the local government employees, and cut the wages of the other 65% by 20%, to balance the budget. Have you asked them?

[Westlander]

[relictele]

"The best thing to say to a room full of people is that even though we're in a tough time and a recession, you still go out to eat," Hyland said. "It's discretionary."

Collectivists do love to generalize don't they?

[Felis_irritable]

"The best thing to say to a room full of people is that even though we're in a tough time and a recession, you still go out to eat," Hyland said. "It's discretionary."

Yet more proof, if any was needed, that democrats don't understand economics. If it's discretionary people are more likely to stop doing it when their income goes down.

Sheesh.

Next lesson: elastic versus inelastic. Hint: it's relevant.

[smokingfrog]

I propose that all elected officials pay double the taxes of everyone else. When they are re-elected, it should go up again each time.

[NurdlyPeon]

Why bother with a meal tax? Why not just go directly to a tax on breathing? If we could just get some court to declare carbon-dioxide as a pollutant.

[goldstategop]

A meals tax huh? Next thing they'll tax us for breathing. They have to nickel and dime us to death at a time when we're just barely hanging on for dear life!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[silverleaf]

well well, the restaurants in Fairfax County must not have seen any drop in business, with only 10% unemployment and climbing

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This shows how out-of-touch these arrogant axxhats are
No doubt his per diem pays for many a restaurant meal

[TLI]

How about a tax just on Fairfax County Board Supervisors?

Hey, nobody made the run for the office, "It's discretionary."

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[dalebert]

ya feed the dems

[PistolPaknMama]

I’ll bite. What the crapp is a meals tax? Last time I was in Fairfax, VA, I drove through a Burger King and could barely understand the person taking my order. I asked for somene who spoke English. I assume they charged her a tax for not being able to place my order for my meal...yes? Maybe they charged me more for not being able to understand not-English-exactly.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The best thing to say to a room full of people is that even though we're in a tough time and a recession, you still go out to eat," Hyland said. "It's discretionary."

To the degree you still go out to eat, you will do it less if it costs more, which it will if they tax it.

[khnyny]

Supervisor Gerald W. Hyland (D-Mount Vernon) is an example of the typical idiotic government worker.

Who knows though - perhaps the big chain restaurants are attempting to pay off the County Supervisors, etc., to eliminate the competition. In which case it’s not stupidity...just sayin’.

[A_Former_Democrat]

I’m so sick of people like this.

Why don’t you cowardly bastards actually CUT something? And I’m not talking essential services. Lay off marginal employees. Freeze salaries and benefits. Make some tough choices instead of slurping at the public trough. And cut benefits in the welfare state. You’re not helping anyone by creating and maintaining dependency classes.

Disgusting.

[VanShuyten]

"He said a meals tax would bring in about as much as a property tax increase of 5 cents per $100 of assessed value and would be spread over a larger group of people."

This really makes me angry. They just raised the property tax here this year. They had the audacity to tell everyone that since their property values had dropped so much that most people would be paying less. Ummm, wait a second. Most people would be paying even less if the losers hadn't RAISED the tax. And now they're considering raising it even more?!?!