FCTA 2026 Annual Luncheon: Sat Oct 3, 11:30am-2pm, P.J.Skidoos Restaurant
9908 Fairfax Blvd (Rt 50) / Fairfax, VA -- Meal $50 (cash or check)
  1. Grilled Lemon Chicken Breast, rice pilaf, green beans
  2. London Broil with mushroom wine sauce, mashed potatoes, green beans
  3. Fresh Broiled Salmon, red potatoes, green beans
  4. Garden Pasta - a vegetarian dish
    (Includes bread, butter, iced or hot tea, or coffee + salad; no dessert.)
After-Dinner Topic: "TBD"
  Featured Speaker: Pat Herrity (Fairfax County Board of Supervisors)
  Also speaking: FCTA president Arthur Purves - Q&A following speaker.
RSVP: luncheon@fcta.org with meal choice(s), before Sept 22

What's Wrong with Fairfax County

  • The Problem: Taxes Rising 3x Faster than Household Income
    Since 2000, Fairfax County real estate taxes have increased 281% -- three times faster than inflation (90%) and nearly four times faster than household income (78%). The average annual tax bill has gone from $2,123 to $10,009. Residents are leaving.

  • Why They're Rising: Raises and Benefits Drive Tax Hikes
    Raises and benefit rate hikes for 40,000 county and school employees account for 96 cents of every new tax dollar collected. Not roads. Not schools. Not public safety. A structural spending problem that compounds every year.

  • What We Get: School SAT Drops and Closed Buildings
    Half of all county taxes fund FCPS. Hundreds of millions more pay for county services. In return: declining academic performance, a closed government building, a road project a million dollars over budget, and a public health department ignoring the county's biggest health crisis.

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    The Solution: Cut Tax Rates and Freeze Salaries
    FCTA's four concrete demands to the Board of Supervisors: lower the FY2027 tax rate to $1.08, put the proposed rate on assessment notices, freeze county salaries until averages are published, and freeze school salaries until SAT scores recover.


Front and Center:
 ■  FCTA - What We Do:
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.

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 ■  Dec 2025 Special Bulletin ... How to Reverse Financial Disaster Coming to Fairfax Co
  -- 78% of tax increases go to County employees.
  -- 22,000 4-yr domestic out-migration, 2/3 of Virginia's.
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 ■  FCTA provides full text of Classics in Western Literature
... The Great Books provide valuable lessons in life, but unfortunately are not emphasized these days. Here are 70+ local HTML copies of books to help students compensate for the diminished FCPS reading requirements since the 1960s.


Recent Posts: Local, Virginia, and Perspective
FCTA Wonders: (1) Is it worse to not learn because gov't schools are closed, or to not learn reading, math, and 1776 history when gov't schools are open? (2) Will Va. adopt destructive and expensive green energy policies like California? (3) Can U.S. citizens' trust be restored in government, corporate, and educational institutions? (4) Will the U.S. return to equal justice under the law?

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2026-08-24 (Nat) AMAC: America's Unholy Marxist/Islamist Alliance, by Kelsey Reinhardt
This Red-Green partnership operates through campus activism, political organizing, and social-justice rhetoric that obscures what is actually being advanced -- destruction of the Judeo-Christian foundations of Western civilization and individual freedom.

2026-08-22 (Nat) Epoch Times: America's Education Crisis, by Jacki Thrapp
An Epoch Times survey of 1,378 readers shows that most Americans are not satisfied with what future generations are learning in the classroom.

2026-08-14 (SVa) NY Post: How to Wreck a State in 5 Easy Steps, by Jason Miyares
Political pros have a saying about how our two parties handle defeat and victory. When Republicans lose, the pundits say, they fear they'll never win again; when Democrats win, they govern as though they'll never have to win again. Virginia offers proof of the maxim.

2026-08-04 (Sch) Fx GOP: FCPS Spends $4B/Year, Superintendent Paid More Than the President.
Meanwhile: In 2021, Fairfax County voters approved the money to renovate Centreville High School. Five years later, it still hasn't been built -- and the students inside are done waiting.

2026-08-03 (SVa) AMAC: Democrats Don't Know Their Own Election Laws, by Matt Lamb
Va Senators Warner and Kaine: "In Virginia, we have voter ID and photo ID." If both Democrats had done their homework, they would know that Virginia did have Voter ID until 2020, when Democrat Governor Ralph Northam repealed the state's requirement.

2026-07-31 (SVa) Daily Caller: Bloomberg's Va Gun-Ban Efforts Backfire Spectacularly
Despite massive spending in the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial race, the gun-control organization backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have left the state with far more modern semiautomatic firearms than there were prior to a short-lived ban.

2026-07-30 (Nat) AMAC: DSA's Plan for Communist Revolution, by Sarah Katherine Sisk
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are scheming to gut the Constitution and implement full-scale communism in the United States – and they’re not being shy about it.

2026-07-14 (Nat) Am Greatness: The World Made Anew, by Victor Davis Hanson
With a whimper rather than a bang, the world has become a different place than it was in January 2021, when Donald Trump left office. Almost everything we are now told about the global status quo is mistaken.

2026-07-02 (Tax) FCTA: Fairfax Co, Vienna Real Estate Taxes Over Last 50 Years, by David Swink
A FCTA board member, and Vienna resident since 1975, provides raw real estate tax data for fifty years, from 1976 onward, for both Fairfax County and the Town of Vienna.

2026-06-30 (SVa) Fx GOP: Va Dems Finally Pass $207B Budget; New Energy Tax Added
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Of Interest:
News Today: ZeroHedge, plus front pages of WaPo and Wash Times
Weekly Vid: AMAC Weekly News -- Ben Ferguson's video summaries, updated every Friday
For Wisdom: Victor Davis Hanson ... Dennis Prager ... Jeffrey A Tucker
Political: Local Fairfax Democrat and Republican home pages
FCPS Watch: Fairfax Schools Monitor, -- tracking the latest "wokeness" from FCPS
Great Reads: Full Text of Classics in Western Literature, by FCTA's David Swink
Environmt: The History and Future of Climate Change -- video (5:31) w/transcript by Peter Temple
Poli-Toons: Mallard Fillmore -- latest political satire by Bruce Tinsley

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