STOP RAISING TAXES! Set next year’s real estate tax rate at $1.08! ... (See handout !!)
Fairfax Co supervisors are deciding on next year’s tax rate. Since residential assessments have increased 4%, the supervisors must reduce the tax rate to keep real estate taxes "affordable": $1.08, down from the current $1.1225 tax rate!
IMPORTANT: Email the supervisors at FY27Budget@publicinput.com and tell them to set the tax rate at $1.08.
SHOW UP at the Gov’t Center with friends and neighbors on April 14; help us protest the soaring taxation in Fairfax County!
■ 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.
-- FCTA offers suggestions for reform.
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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?
2026-03-02 (Sch) Daily Signal: Fairfax Co Public Schools is Unraveling, by S. Lundquist-Arora Due to FCPS's administrative bloat and declining academic standards, affluent families are fleeing the sinking ship. Fairfax students attending private schools went from 7% in 2019 to 16% in 2025. (Public school enrollment increased in Loudoun(+8,315) and Arlington(+3,429) in the last decade, but decreased in Fairfax(-6,894).)
2026-03-01 (Rxx) FCTA: "The Clot Thickens" - A Summary, by David Swink Summarizes Dr. Malcolm Kendrick's 300-page book The Clot Thickens, where he dispenses with the current "diet-heart cholesterol" hypothesis in favor of the 150-year-old "blood-clot" hypothesis.
2026-03-01 (Msc) Examiner: Steve Descano: America's Worst Prosecutor, by Timothy P. Carney The George Soros-funded commonwealth's attorney for Fairfax County of has openly stated he won't enforce the law when it clashes with his ideology of "criminal justice reform". The results have been ugly.
2026-02-10 (Sch) FCTA: Fairfax Co Schools - Tie Salaries to Academic Achievement, by Arthur Purves FCPS spending goes up, but academic achievement remains underwhelming: Only five of the 25 high schools have average SAT scores of 1250 or higher, the minimum to get into a competitive college; TJ's SAT score fell an unprecedented 82 points this year. So The Taxpayers Alliance recommends a salary freeze until these scores improve.
2026-01-30 (SVa) WJLA: Va Dems' "affordability" taxes ... to pay for Metro?, by Nick Minock Va Senate Leader Scott Surovell justifies new taxes to offset the costs of that financial black hole we call Metro, instead of raising real estate taxes. (No mention of simply shuting down the rail system Democrats inflicted on Fairfax County, and replacing with a more efficient bus system.)
2026-01-21 (SVa) WT: Dems immediately invent new ways to tax Virginians, Op-Ed by Joseph Curl It took Virginia Democrats exactly five days to look at a massive budget surplus and say, "You know what this state needs? Less money in the taxpayers' pockets." Fresh off taking a government trifecta in November and newly installed in the statehouse and governor's mansion, Democrats have hit the ground running -- toward your bank account.
2026-01-17 (Pot) ZeroHedge: Why Women Moved Left While Men Stayed Sane, by vittorio on X The partisan gap almost doubled in 25 years, with women moving radically left and men staying roughly where they were. The culprit: smartphones and social media. The machines captured the half more susceptible to consensus pressure; then they started capturing the other half through different mechanisms.
2026-01-09 (Tax) Fx Times: Fairfax Co Mimics Blue-State Out-Migration, by Jared Wenzelburger FCTA has compared Fairfax County's high-tax environment and subsequent taxpayer out-migraton to several northeastern states that have experienced population losses in recent years -- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
2025-12-24 (Pot) AMAC: Ford's $19.5B Flop Latest Bust for EV Industry, by Sarah Katherine Sisk In the latest blow for the struggling electric vehicle (EV) market, Ford Motor Company announced in mid-December that it expects to "write-down" $19.5 billion related to its electric-vehicle business. Ford has also canceled the all-electric F-150 Lightning and scaled down other EV plans while shifting resources toward hybrids and extended-range trucks.
2025-12-10 (Wrd) AMAC: Trump's Warning for Europe is a Warning for America Too, by Mike Marlowe Europe is disappearing. And it's disappearing because its leaders deliberately chose policies that guaranteed exactly this outcome -- open borders, mass censorship, seething contempt for their own history and legacy, and unlimited invitations to foreigners who refuse to assimilate.
