Tag: Arthur Purves
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Fairfax Spends More, Teaches Less
by Arthur Purves (Editor’s note: Arthur Purves, president of the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance, addressed the Fairfax County School Board on Feb. 13, 2024. His remarks, with updated numbers, are posted below.) At church I get to ask students and parents around Vienna about our schools. The feedback is positive, and we appreciate your dedicated teachers…
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Fairfax SAT Scores Fall 27 Points Since 2018
by Arthur Purves When my wife and I were looking for a home in Fairfax County 50 years ago, we asked the real estate agent how the schools were. “Excellent!” she replied. But today? The Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) Oct. 5, 2022, press release on 2022 SAT scores shows that between 2018 and 2022…
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Taxation Through Misrepresentation
by Arthur G. Purves Around June 28 Fairfax County homeowners will get their real estate tax bill, which is due July 28. The typical homeowner’s real estate tax bill will increase by $484, or 6.8%, from $7,159 to $7,643. Around Sept. 5, Fairfax County car owners will get their personal property tax bill, which is…
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Fairfax’s Un-Affordable Housing Program
by Arthur Purves If you live in Fairfax County and are over 50, you may have received from the county a five-page 120-question survey to “…inform the county’s … Future Aging Plan.” Here’s the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance Future Aging Plan: stop taxing us out of our homes. For 20 years, county supervisors have been…
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A Taste of Tyranny
Testimony of Arthur Purves, president of the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance, at a hearing held by the Fairfax delegation to the General Assembly January 8. Thank you for this hearing. I have five topics. First, it was 19 degrees this morning, and we just had a 20-hour, 50-mile shutdown on I-95 due to snow and…
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For the Left, Government Is Always Underfunded
by Arthur G. Purves Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin has proposed several savings for Virginia’s taxpayers, including doubling the standard deduction, providing a one-time tax rebate, eliminating the grocery tax, and suspending the 10-cent increase in the gas tax. His proposals come at a time when Virginia has a record $2.6 billion budget surplus. Nevertheless, Virginia Public…
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Democrat Bunkum about Youngkin
Arthur G. Purves In this fall’s Virginia gubernatorial campaign, Virginia Democrats are citing “a new independent study” to attack Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, when Democrat policies themselves merit scrutiny. The Virginia Democrats web page does not cite the source of the Youngkin study but does link to the the website of the Virginia Education…
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Return the Surplus, Do Not Reward Schools that Don’t Teach
by Arthur G. Purves Virginia ended Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 with a record-breaking budget surplus of $2.6 billion. (Virginia’s budget year, or fiscal year, is from July 1 to June 30.) Virginia Governor Ralph Northam stated that the surplus was due to Virginia’s great business climate, pointing out that CNBC ranked Virginia as the #1…