A Tax By Any Other Name Still Costs Money
Today’s Washington Post and this week’s Arlington Sun-Gazette report on the County Manager’s proposed Fiscal Year 2008 budget, which he presented to the Board on Monday afternoon.
Annie Gowen of the Post started her story with:
“Arlington County is considering an energy tax on residents to help pay for its high-profile initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, officials said yesterday in proposing a $873.6 million spending plan for the coming year.”
Scott McCaffrey of the Sun-Gazette started his story with the good and the bad:
“Many Arlington homeowners will save money on real estate taxes this year, but those savings would be eaten up by increases in other county government fees, under a proposed fiscal 2008 budget presented by County Manager Ron Carlee.”
For the details of the budget the county wants you to know, here’s yesterday’s press release. The entire two-volume set of budget documents is available at the Department of Management & Budget’s website. Come back soon, and we'll have new postings as we work through the two, thick volumes of the budget, not to mention the schools budget, which gobbles up almost 48% of tax revenues.