By Adam Pagnucco. Just like (hopefully) all of you, I am voting in the primary this year. We talk a lot about candidates on Seventh State but not as much…
Economy
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…
Why Progressives Need Economic Growth
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…
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. …
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…
David Blair Calls the Question
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…
Taxpayer Flight from MoCo, Part Five
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…
Taxpayer Flight from MoCo, Part Four
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…
Taxpayer Flight from MoCo, Part Three
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…
Taxpayer Flight from MoCo, Part Two
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…