By Adam Pagnucco. It’s election season and that means it’s time for lots of promises from politicians. And boy are they promising a lot, especially on the county’s two big…
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Why Progressives Need Economic Growth
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By Adam Pagnucco. For progressives, few issues should be more important than the need for economic growth. Why do we say that? First, let’s see what happens when there is…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) confirms something we have reported before: wage and salary employment has been stagnant in MoCo for a decade. …
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By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, Greater Greater Washington (GGW) wrote a long essay about Council Member Marc Elrich, who is running for Executive. GGW has many disagreements with Elrich about smart…
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David Blair Calls the Question
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By Adam Pagnucco. In a mailer with a headline your author could have written, County Executive candidate David Blair asks, “How will we create jobs and increase revenue without raising…
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Taxpayer Flight from MoCo, Part Five
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By Adam Pagnucco. Today, we conclude looking at jurisdictions with whom MoCo has had inflows and outflows of tax returns and adjusted gross incomes. Loudoun County Net change in tax…
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Taxpayer Flight from MoCo, Part Four
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Three, we saw that MoCo’s problem of taxpayer flight is shared by most jurisdictions in the Washington region. But what happens when we look at…
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Taxpayer Flight from MoCo, Part Three
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Two, we detailed how MoCo has experienced an exodus of taxpayer income since 1993. But MoCo is not alone: many large jurisdictions in the Washington…
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Taxpayer Flight from MoCo, Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. As we stated in Part One, the IRS tracks the inflow and outflow of returns, exemptions and adjusted gross income (AGI) for all states and counties. Comparable…
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Taxpayer Flight from MoCo, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. We have been printing a ton of posts about the economy on Seventh State, including discussions of our employment and income growth, our rate of business formation,…