taxes
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Why Is Montgomery County Giving Taxpayer Money to a “Micro-Lender” Requiring No Credit Score, No Employment, No Address, No Immigration Status from Its Borrowers
Read more: Why Is Montgomery County Giving Taxpayer Money to a “Micro-Lender” Requiring No Credit Score, No Employment, No Address, No Immigration Status from Its BorrowersIn yet another blow to fiscal stewardship of the taxpayer dollar in Montgomery County, data from the MoCo “Checkbook” in 2023 reveals that Montgomery County’s “Economic Development Fund” gave a nonprofit corporation called Life Asset Inc. a $50,000 check in May, 2023. See our screen shot below: Life Asset Inc. says it is a “nonprofit…
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Impasta LLC? Dollface Beauty Inc? Let’s Peek Into What Montgomery County’s “Economic Development Fund” Grants Your Tax Dollars To
Read more: Impasta LLC? Dollface Beauty Inc? Let’s Peek Into What Montgomery County’s “Economic Development Fund” Grants Your Tax Dollars ToEyelash extensions. Botox and dysport injections. Gluten-free pasta and baked goods. A company that sells “Virtual Reality simulations”, including “Implicit Bias Training” via something called HarmonyVR™. What do they all have in common? Companies selling these diverse services and wares received your tax dollars in 2020 via the Montgomery County “Economic Development Fund Grants” for…
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MoCo’s “Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone” of Left-Wing Special Interests Serves Nobody Besides Itself
Read more: MoCo’s “Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone” of Left-Wing Special Interests Serves Nobody Besides ItselfCASA is a self-bolstering system that has no purpose other than to sustain itself
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Maybe Local Government Officials Should Focus on Just…Local Taxes, Crime, Schools?
Read more: Maybe Local Government Officials Should Focus on Just…Local Taxes, Crime, Schools?The people of MoCo would be much more unified and probably much less ill-tempered with one another if they saw actual progress via accountable schools, new roads, more bridges and trains, and policy that promotes a lower cost of living – not a high tax, high inflation one.
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Proposed Elimination of “Tip Credit” in MoCo is Really About Raising Taxes on Working Class
Read more: Proposed Elimination of “Tip Credit” in MoCo is Really About Raising Taxes on Working ClassCM Will Jawando, wealthy owner of an estate on 2.8 acres, wants to raise taxes and cap earnings on working class Montgomery County employees in the restaurant and beverage services / bartending sector.
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Investor Beware: MoCo Govt Issues More General Obligation Bonds as ‘Debt Servicing’ Projects
Read more: Investor Beware: MoCo Govt Issues More General Obligation Bonds as ‘Debt Servicing’ ProjectsMoCo debt service cost are on a glide path to consume more and more resources in budgets that should be going into the actual MoCo body politic.
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Frequent MoCo Government Grant Recipients Have Dubious Ties to Foreign Nations like Iran, Questionable Keynote Speaker Invitees
Read more: Frequent MoCo Government Grant Recipients Have Dubious Ties to Foreign Nations like Iran, Questionable Keynote Speaker InviteesMontgomery County’s beleaguered taxpayers are asked to fund all kinds of nonsense, as documented frequently at CleanSlateMoCo. At the same time, MoCo politicians talk incessantly about “combating hatred” and bigotry. There has been 18+ years of combatting “hate” through government proclamations and other public acts. Now, more investigations are turning up some really outrageous taxpayer…
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Marc Elrich Thinks Montgomery County and Maryland Are Economically Competitive, Not “Overtaxed”
Read more: Marc Elrich Thinks Montgomery County and Maryland Are Economically Competitive, Not “Overtaxed”This came to my attention when reading a recent story by Ginny Bixby at MoCo360.media entitled “Ballot initiative would limit county executive to two terms” (September 15, 2023). In it, Marc Elrich, the County’s second term Chief Executive and a 36-year career politician with little practical real-world experiences or any background in economics or personal…
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Incredible Return on Investment? EDENS Secures Impressive Tax-Payer Windfall After Donations to MD14
Read more: Incredible Return on Investment? EDENS Secures Impressive Tax-Payer Windfall After Donations to MD14Yesterday I came across a crowing tweet (sorry, “post” on “X”) by County Exec March Elrich discussing the long-awaited “revitalization” of the vacant, neglected Burtonsville Crossing retail center in eastern Montgomery County. CE Elrich was basically issuing a press release on behalf of the “MD14 Team” which consists of a slate of local MoCo politicians…
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Montgomery County’s “Tree Canopy Law” is Having Consequences Each and Every Summer – and Making “Tree Expert” Companies Very Rich
Read more: Montgomery County’s “Tree Canopy Law” is Having Consequences Each and Every Summer – and Making “Tree Expert” Companies Very RichDid you know you can get a “free” shade tree (maybe, depending where you live) for your property in Montgomery County? It is true… the county runs something called “Tree Montgomery”. This government “program”, a part of the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection, says people in the county can indeed get “free” shade trees:…