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, vs current (and Proposed) $1.1225 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 at 3:00pm; help us protest soaring taxation in Fairfax Co! . . . "Don’t Fairfax Me" ?? . . . signs in Va
■ 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?
2026-04-01 (SVa) Cardinal News: "Don't Fairfax Me" now a Virginia verb, by Dwayne Yancey There are signs appearing up and down the Shenandoah Valley that proclaim: "Don't Fairfax Me", invoked as a verb in rural Virginia to argue against the proposed gerrymandering amendment. (Many Fairfax County taxpayers wouldn't mind seeing few of those signs in their own county.)
2026-03-27 (Tax) FCTA: Fairfax County Notice of Proposed Real Property Tax Increase Public posting, one half of page A6 in the Washington Times. Includes an average increase of 3.99 percent for residential and an increase of 0.92 percent for non-residential real estate. Public hearing April 14, 2026 at the Gov't Center.
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.
2026-02-24 (SVa) Bacon's Rebellion: General Assembly's 22.5% "Labor Tax" Gamble, by Derrick Max You cannot mandate prosperity or affordability by taxing the act of employment. Virginia's economy will suffer under a 22.5% labor cost surcharge -- which is nothing more than a formula for stagnation in the Commonwealth.
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.)
