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FCTA Fall 2007 Bulletin

• The Connolly Years:  Taxes up 10% per year
• FCTA Annual Meeting: "Is global warming man-made?"
• Real estate tax hike between 2000-2007 15 times greater than in previous 19 years
• Summary of Virginia General Assembly tax changes between 2004 and 2007
• FCTA testimony opposing Northern Virginia Transportation Authority tax increases - July 12, 2007
• ACT: 23 percent of Virginia high school graduates ready for college
• FCTA testimony at the Board of Supervisors hearing on the FY2008 Advertised Budget
• Officers of the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance

FCTA Winter 2007 Bulletin (Download PDF version)

• Real estate tax rate 30 cents too high
• Taxpayer Rally to protest out-of-control taxes
• Include transportation in the General Fund
• Does school achievement justify high taxes?
• Tax hikes pay for public-sector raises and benefits
• School Board bond committee pays election fines

FCTA Spring 2006 Bulletin (Download PDF version)

• Homeowners face another 10% tax hike
• Taxpayer Rally to protest out-of-control taxes
• FCTA testimony before the Fairfax County School Board Budget Hearing
• Are Fairfax County teachers leaving due to low salaries?
• Taxpayers or Unions? Whom will the Supervisors see at the budget hearings?
• An FCTA member speaks up
• FCTA testimony before the Fairfax County Delegation to the Virginia General Assembly

FCTA Winter 2006 Bulletin (Download PDF version)

• Real estate taxes up 85 percent in six years
• Fairfax County Public Schools hires 295 more full-time employees for 510 more students
• Special Education: Does it work?
• "No Car Tax" effectively repealed
• Senator Chichester’s argument against TABOR … and why it’s wrong
• How good are Fairfax County Public Schools? (About 60 percent of graduates likely to earn 4-year college degrees)
• Welfare: The modern-day plantation
• Entitlements jeopardize healthcare and eldercare
• Pat McSweeney addresses FCTA Annual Meeting
• Officers of the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance

FCTA Spring 2005 Bulletin (Download PDF version)

• Virginia public school staff increasing seven times faster than enrollment
• Fairfax County Public Schools staff increasing four times faster than enrollment
• Transportation: Government’s lowest priority
• Fairfax County and Virginia spending at record highs

FCTA Spring 2004 Bulletin

• Teachers union lauches all-out attack on Virginia taxpayers
• Misleading statements in Governor Warner's State of the Commonwealth address
• FCTA cited in Washington Times editorial
• FCTA General Assembly 2004 Scorecard —Fairfax County Delegation
• Membership Renewal
• A citizen speaks out
• Join the pro-taxpayer rally

FCTA Fall 2003 Bulletin

• Where is Virginia's $6 billion budget shortfall?
• Frequently-heard misleading statements about schools and taxes in Fairfax County and Virginia
• State politicians lying low with lurking tax-increase plan
• Email from senior citizens threatened by real estate tax increases
• FCTA lobbyist's report from the 2003 Virginia General Assembly
• 76 cents: A reprise
• Vote NO on bonds
• Chairman of the Northern Virginia Technology Council warns against Internet taxation
• Officers of the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance
• Membership Renewal

FCTA Spring 2003 Bulletin

• Legislative audit commission documents, but does not acknowledge, huge budget increases
• Two percent: A lot or a little? (It’s a lot)
• Ray Coggin
• Correction
• What services? How Virginia spends its tax dollar
• USA TODAY: State spending "overambitious"
• COMMENTARY: Uninventing government
• The trouble with state spending ranks
• Officers of the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance
• Membership Renewal

FCTA Fall 2002 Bulletin
More taxes won't fix gridlock, household tax burden up 20 percent in ten years -- after inflation, Viginia's bogus budget crisis, vote NO on bond referendum, Cuccinelli wins

FCTA Spring 2002 Bulletin
Twelve reasons why sales tax referendum is a bad idea, General Assembly 2002 scorecard, Any tax rate above $1.06 is a tax hike

FCTA Fall 2001 Bulletin
Cost of sales tax increase, School SATs, School Bond referendum, who benefits from growth, FCTA annual meeting

FCTA Summer 2001 Bulletin
Real reason for transportation gridlock, Legislator's Score Card, Real estate tax hikes cancel Car Tax relief, $3 Billion 2020 Transportation Plan

FCTA Summer 2000 Bulletin
School and Social spending, Stadium Analysis, Tax Study Commission, Transportation Plan, Tax increases since 1975, BPOL tax rates

FCTA Spring 2000 Bulletin
Politicians break promises, control development, General Assembly Tax Attacks, SOLs, County hijacks car tax cuts, Baseball, FCTA president arrested, Anatomy of a Public Hearing, Bond referendum facts.

FCTA Fall 1999 Bulletin
Candidate views on tax increases, 5 reasons to turn down Bond Referendum, School performance hits new lows, the cost of moral breakdown, how is your High school doing?

FCTA Summer 1999 Bulletin
Road taxes, School Bond Referendum. Baseball stadium, 2000 Tax hike, Letter to Governor

FCTA Spring 1999 Bulletin
Business taxes, Dodging a bullet, Police Helicopter, school salary, hotline.

FCTA Winter 1999 Bulletin
School accountability, growth; taxes to rise in 2000, hidden cost of government, Big Brother, Stunned.

FCTA Fall 1998 Bulletin
State Constitutional Amendments - Fairfax County Bond Referenda

FCTA Summer 1998 Bulletin
Car Tax - Computers in Schools - Cost of Tax Increases - SAT Results

FCTA Spring 1998 Bulletin
Article from former Fairfax County Auditor - Update on Car Tax -and more

FCTA Fall 1997 Bulletin
$232 Million School Bond Referendum Subsidizes Mismanagement of School System

FCTA Summer 1997 Bulletin
County taxes increased 400% since 1975

FCTA Spring 1997 Bulletin
Fairfax County Public Schools Demand Higher Taxes for Minimal Results

Updated October 21, 2007