[muawiyah]

Northern Virginia used to be a bit inaccessible to the churning DC masses seeking to be free. If you had a small private plane there were half a dozen small airfields throughout the area which the rich could use, but otherwise all they had was the two-lane Chain Bridge, Key Bridge Memorial Bridge and an older railroad bridge.

It was all Roy Chalk's bus fleet could do to get folks to nearby Arlington in under an hour.

Maryland began to become exceedingly repressive in the early to mid 1960s and it hasn't gotten better. Sometimes there are entire decades go by when the only construction there is for housing ~

Maryland's tax and spend policies created Northern Virginia.

[pie_eater]

Maryland has gone “all-in” on government. We have watched year after year while industries, corporate headquarters, and other types of private business leave the state. Maryland exists as a support community for the federal government and the defense industry dependent upon it. The only planned growth in the last ten years has been from base realignment (BRAC) jobs. So while the government is growing, Maryland is growing. We have been spared most of the downturn of the last few years. Government employees don’t feel the pain, so they continue to vote Democrat. Our two main constituencies are government employees and welfare recipients/retirees.

Meanwhile, the Democrat administration targets anyone who isn’t in those two constituencies. Industries leave. Millionaires leave. Farmers sell out to factory farms.

Maryland will hit the wall as soon as the federal government stops growing, which is hopefully very soon.