Fairfax Co supervisors are deciding on next year's tax rate. Since residential assessments have increased 4%, the supervisors must reduce the tax rate to keep real estate taxes "affordable": $1.08, down from the current $1.1225 tax rate!

IMPORTANT: Email the supervisors at FY27Budget@publicinput.com and tell them to set the tax rate at $1.08.

SHOW UP at the Gov't Center with friends and neighbors on April 14; help us protest the soaring taxation in Fairfax County!

FCTA is a non-profit, non-partisan, volunteer organization founded in 1956 to prevent excessive real estate tax and spending increases. We analyze and publicize county and school board spending. We are the only organization that challenges school and county employee compensation. We testify at school and county budget hearings. Over 90% of tax increases are for employee compensation. County employees can retire at age 55 with 75% of final salary. We are working to keep school and county pay in line with the private sector.

Before year 2000, the County was still a modestly-run suberb with low and first-rate schools. We lost the excellent private bus systems of the 1950s, but cars were cheap. Outsiders were migrating here.

Since 2000, the County has gradually devolved to a one-party fifedom with a bloated and expensive governance. Residential real estate taxes have skyrocketed due to excessive employee benefits and immigrants in schools. The Metrorail boondogle has become an annual financial "black hole", lacking the flexabilty of bus transit system. Public school academic standards and SAT scores have plummeted. Our leadership has given us bicycle paths instead of roads, future planning that does not match reality, and a residential and commercial tax base that is gradually moving elsewhere. We are becoming "Los Angeles East"!

(Avg RE tax: 1976-$822; 2000-$2,123; 2026-$10,031 ... Ref HERE.)

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(Avg RE tax: 1976-$822; 2000-$2,123; 2026-$10,031 ... Ref HERE.)

1. Limit annual RE tax hikes to merely twice the 1% set in Va code.
2. Keep County employee benefits in line with the private sector.
3. Contract gov't tasks to the private sector whenever feasible ...
4. ... including an independent auditor for Fx Co.
5. Provide for affordable housing by simply creating a dozen or more zoning allowances for mobile home parks throughout Fx Co.
6. Fx Co to eschew Metrorail "black hole" funding where legally possible; replace with free bus service at a fraction of the cost.
7. Stop all funding and legislation related to the Climate hoax.
8. No more bonds. Fund improvements from operating budgets.
9. Restore '60s-level academic excellence: go back to hardcopy.
10. Add Virginia to states with unconditional parental school choice.
11. Restore pre-Covid same-day elections, limited absentee ballots.
12. More information and details ... HERE.

• Northam Excesses on Steriods?
• New Virginia motto: Sic nunc ad cives!?
• Numerous "affordability" tax proposals "of choice" ...
  -- New tax on deliveries from Amazon, Uber Eats, and more?
  -- Higher income tax brackets at 8% and 10% on high earners?
  -- New personal property tax on landscaping equipment?
  -- New taxes on guns and ammo?
  -- Raise hotel taxes?
  -- Increase electricity costs by rejoining RGGI?
• Target Virginia's Right-To-Work laws to appease Big Labor?
• Gerrymander Congressional districts midterm? (Judge said NO!)
• Efforts to decrease election security?
• Add typical blue-state gun control laws?
• Pander to criminals and illegal aliens?

Have a suggestion or complaint about a Fairfax Co issue? Contact your Supervisor. (Go HERE to find out who that is.) Include your name and street address in your email, so they know you are a County resident. (Each Supervisor's hot-linked email below also CCs to the Chairman.)

-- Chairman: Jeffrey McKay (chairman@fairfaxcounty.gov)
-- Braddock: Rachna Heizer (braddock@fairfaxcounty.gov)
-- Dranesville: James Bierman, Jr. (dranesville@fairfaxcounty.gov)
-- Franconia: Rodney Lusk (franconia@fairfaxcounty.gov)
-- Hunter Mill: Walter Alcorn (huntermill@fairfaxcounty.gov)
-- Mason: Andres Jimenez (mason@fairfaxcounty.gov)
-- Mount Vernon: Daniel Storck (mtvernon@fairfaxcounty.gov)
-- Providence: Dalia Palchik (providence@fairfaxcounty.gov)
-- Springfield: Pat Herrity (springfield@fairfaxcounty.gov)
-- Sully: Kathy Smith (sully@fairfaxcounty.gov)

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