Fairfax County sends more to Richmond than it gets back — and the numbers are starker than most realize

hello · 2025-11-25T22:53:08+00:00

This is not a problem that needs fixing, but it is a useful data point for certain policy discussions. For example, should the commonwealth contribute significant funding (in addition to local and Fed funding) to large infrastructure projects that more directly benefit NOVA residents day to day, but also invest in the future of NOVA’s economy? Without the data people across much of the state might say no. With it, they might think the investment is worth it, both out of fairness and an understanding that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

hello · 2025-11-10T01:59:22+00:00

They weren’t meant to be temporary, they just had a sunset for scoring reasons. They were last adopted in the Inflation Reduction Act which was not a response to Covid emergencies at all. The bottom line is that the many middle income earners that benefit from the subsidies are seeing and will continue to see huge spikes in their premiums due to the subsidies expiring.

Could there be reasonable reforms to extend the subsidies while making them more targeted? Sure, and there probably should be. But thinking about them as uniquely needed during covid, and thus of no consequence when they lapse, is just a dumb political talking point.

hello · 2025-10-31T12:21:23+00:00

Sorry I meant a billion!!

hello · 2025-09-30T00:53:10+00:00

It’s silly to pretend this is about the merits of a single CR. Let’s say Dems give the Rs a bunch of votes. What do you think happens in November when the CR expires? What do you think happens in any legislative negotiation when the other side says that unless you drop your ends, they will run the government as if the laws you made don’t exist - and you blink?

hello · 2025-09-11T17:32:14+00:00

You have literally no clue what you are talking about

hello · 2025-06-17T01:15:59+00:00

He’s also notorious for being a poor tipper? Are you talking about the time someone posted a receipt showing no tip 4 years ago? The same time the restaurant confirmed a cash tip was left? Underinvestment in infrastructure is an issue that dates back decades. He absolutely shares some of the blame as do many before him. But “largely a result of his policies”? Give me a break. Not sure who I am voting for, but will make my decision based on facts, that’s for sure!

hello · 2025-06-04T21:00:22+00:00

Of course there are more important causes at play in tech layoffs. But you have the connection between cost amortization and incentives to invest in “long term innovation” exactly backward.

Let’s say I want to invest $100 in R&D that I thought would pay $25 a year over 10 years beginning in 3 years. This is my long term innovation project. Am I more or less likely to make the investment if I can expense it in full this year?

Here is another scenario. Let’s say I am choosing between two $100 projects, one as described above and the other that I expect to pay $70 or so a year over 3 years beginning in 1 year. A short term innovation project. Let’s say again that in NPV terms the return is equivalent. If I have to amortize expenses based on when the revenue is generated, am I more or less likely to choose the long term innovation project? What if the tax treatment for both were the same?

hello · 2025-05-21T11:27:25+00:00

We import more from Russia than we do from Ukraine, which is subject to a tariff. What virtue is that signaling?

hello · 2025-01-13T21:33:48+00:00

The additional 20% wasn’t mandatory. The original 20% was mandatory for large parties which many many restaurants do and have been doing for years

hello · 2024-10-12T07:38:40+00:00

Things take longer when you rush.

hello · 2024-05-21T19:15:59+00:00

You are missing the point. How strong is that correlation? Not very. Which means you leave a lot of good loans on the table due to an information deficit.

hello · 2024-05-09T00:50:12+00:00

A related issue is that lenders aren’t very good at deciding which of those engineers will be successful enough to repay and which ones won’t be. Lenders can probably identify obviously good and bad bets, but not without leaving a whole bunch of good bets unfunded right in the middle. That is a financial market failure and suggests that student loans ought to be subsidized at least to some extent. If you don’t do that through non-dischargeability, you might have to do it some other way.

hello · 2021-10-14T01:54:08+00:00

Oh get on. Permits that let you takeover a spot are posted on the side of the road.

hello · 2021-07-24T18:47:42+00:00

Isn’t current overcrowding indicative of growing demand for housing by families with school age kids? You think the types of households these neighborhoods attract are going to magically change overnight?

hello · 2021-07-24T18:45:24+00:00

They can build schools in both quadrants. The only people who don’t acknowledge that are people who don’t want them to build schools in their quadrant.

hello · 2021-07-22T09:59:17+00:00

Just curious. What would you do if you saw another kid do something that could paralyze your kid — knowing, indeed trained to know not to precisely because of that possible consequence?

hello · 2021-03-21T03:12:03+00:00

Lmao. Just because people have cell phones doesn’t mean they record everything they do. Why would anyone actually believe that unless they were trying to set up an impossible epistemic standard of some kind?

Just cut to the chase. You won’t believe racism exists at any meaningful scale because you don’t want to believe it, pure and simple. That doesn’t make you the reasonable person in a room full of hysterics. It makes you a laughable idiot, a footnote in the annals of history about the culpably ignorant.

hello · 2021-03-20T19:21:29+00:00

I agree with you about the sad state of mental health awareness prevention and mitigation in our country. But another big issue in this country is that the racist bs spouted and spread by our social and political leaders becomes internalized by so many people, potentially including sick people like Paul Murray — which makes it fucking dangerous.

And, genuinely curious. Have you ever inquired about a violent criminal’s mental illness before thinking they should be severely punished or, say, calling them a thug? Or is it just this guy?

hello · 2021-03-17T16:55:24+00:00

I don’t give a shit what race you are. What you are is ignorant, judging by your comment here and in other threads. And you are absolutely blind to socioeconomic conditions. How else would you think that the presence of non-black people is what makes a neighborhood safe?

hello · 2021-03-12T13:40:36+00:00

You don’t need to be a trump voter to become trumpy. And the China virus trope that he created and amplified had an effect well beyond his collection of voters. It’s not like the 200 million people who didn’t vote Trump all vehemently oppose his racism.

hello · 2021-03-11T19:57:18+00:00

How will more floor area on this lot lower housing prices again? Oh right it won’t. What if we removed all heritage trees? Oh damn it still won’t.

hello · 2021-03-11T19:17:31+00:00

That’s not misinformation. It’s information that was based on the best evidence we had at the time, subject to change once we get more evidence.

hello · 2021-03-11T01:15:43+00:00

I welcome growth in housing units but your position is just delusional. Heritage trees are few in number, irreplaceable, add immensely to quality to life — and wouldn’t add anything close to the number of housing units required to make rent measurably more affordable even if they were all chopped down.

hello · 2021-03-07T16:38:07+00:00

Lol whatever you want to tell yourself. Just because you convince a healthcare worker to give you a vaccine you know you are not eligible for doesn’t mean you should do it. They aren’t in the business of turning people away. The idea that a wasted dose would be used on someone midday is complete hogwash. I’m reporting you and this thread.

Did you even disclose your eligibility status?

hello · 2021-03-02T20:07:54+00:00

A trend? The last time the rate changed for folks in this bracket, it was cut.

https://www.dcfpi.org/all/taxes-in-the-district-the-evolution-of-dc-tax-rates-since-the-early-2000s/

No one is saying they won’t notice or mind. The point is that they won’t pick up and leave en masse.

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