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« on: April 14, 2014, 05:19:40 PM »
I have to believe that in a year when so many VT budgets were voted down this is about more than the relatively tiny cost of iPads, for goodness' sake. In a continuing uncertain economy with many taxpayers' incomes fixed or effectively frozen, for many voters it's about the continued, almost highest in the nation, unsustainable levels of spending. While Fairfax can't fix what is largely a broken state funding model, the local focus nonetheless has to be on the biggest short and long term levers - people and positions. Unfortunately easy to say but tough to do. You can get away with 5%+ budget increases for a few years but after awhile property taxes start to skyrocket and the bite becomes just too much to take. My two cents, anyway (well in the spirit of this coversation, four cents I suppose ...).
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