Rather than the first thought being to raise taxes and create new revenue streams, why not consider cutting government spending? Eliminate waste, of which there is much! Reexamine "entitlements" and re-evaluate who should legitimately receive them. If our household budgets operated with the same philosophy that government agencies do, then we would be called at best "irresponsible" and perhaps "incompetent."

I agree with David above....
Say "NO" to all taxes. I will do everything I can to get the word out to our Fairfax County Community to say "NO" to any and all taxes.

At Bailey's Elementary, a school built for around a max of 750 kids, they currently have over 1350 enrolled. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders are all in trailers. Most of the local schools look like a trailer park versus a quality education system. This is draining our local taxes. Three/Four years ago Manassas took steps to prevent illegals from living there and they all moved to Fairfax County. Manasaas is saving millions of dollars each year from the exodus. "Federation For American Immigration Reform concludes that the unlawful presence of illegal aliens in the Commonwealth costs taxpayers $1.7 billion every year for the costs of providing services, the burden on the criminal justice system, and educating illegal aliens and their children in our school systems." This what Fairfax County could do with the money we could save. Why should I pay more taxes when there is a solution?

Your link to take the online survey takes me to a list of public meetings. Please provide readers the link to online survey.

One big thing that can be done to help control our budget deficit is to make sure that MWAA doesn't approve overpriced bids on Phase II of the Silver Line. The Dulles Toll Road tolls that result from the ridiculous cost of that project are unworkable, and they will eventually be paid down with taxpayer money - so it follows that cost control on Phase II will benefit us all in the future. Unfortunately, we can't do much about the excessive cost of Phase I at this point, other than to get a better rate on the loans we have to take out to pay it - but that would be a good idea too.

My bet is that the toll funding plan will fail by 2017, because tens of thousands of Toll Road drivers who can't use the rail line will detour onto our local roads to avoid bankruptcy, causing a total traffic disaster - and Fairfax and Loudoun County will be floating Billion Dollar Bonds for toll paydown, in addition to all other Silver Line costs that we already know we have to pay, and county taxpayers will be paying most of the near-double price for this rail line. We might as well try to minimize the damage while we still can.

Taxpayers should have paid attention to the near-double prices of Dulles Rail construction, because those costs are headed home to roost.
http://www.bruhns.us/civic/DullesRail/Dulles-Rail---Silver-Line-overcost-report---Bruhns.pdf

The main reason we have such bad traffic in Fairfax County is the long-standing practice of the Supervisors (not just the current board, but going back years and years, Democrats and Republicans alike) approving more development than the roads could handle. Because counties are not responsible for local roads (except for Arlington and Henrico Counties), they could approve rezoning after rezoning and blame VDOT for the traffic congestion.

We need an adequate public facilities law that postpones development that would make traffic worse. Otherwise, we can pay higher and higher taxes and not see a reduction in traffic congestion.

We also have problems because VDOT often builds roads that lobbyists want instead of those that will produce the highest return to taxpayers. We need both more money and major reforms to applicable laws.

The gas tax is the most fair and progressive tax. The more you drive on roads, the more more you pay for them. Perfectly proportionate tax. I don't know if the number is .25, .50 or a dollar a gallon, but a user tax is the most fair tax.

Raise money and ease traffic? How about this: Have everyone reapply and retest for their driver's license, only allow the top two thirds to drive. This would get the worst third of drivers off the road and if we auction off the cars driven by unlicensed drivers to pay for roads which will need less maintenance.

Cars and small trucks don't cause any significant damage to streets and highways. Damage to roads and bridges come from heavy trucks. They don't pay for the damage they cause.

Capping the number of driver licences at a set number is a recipe for economic stagnation, as your proposal would cut tens of thousands of people off from their only means of getting to work. Seizing and auctioning their personal property would be an egregious abuse of government power worthy only of the worst communist regimes.
I have to hope you're not serious.

Fairfax County says it needs hundreds of millions in new tax revenues for transportation. But it is in the process of cutting Capital One's Tysons Road Fund bill by $1.2 million. Cap One received permission to build three buildings totalling 600,000 square feet and was required to pay to the Road Fund at $4 and change per square foot. Cap One
no longer wants to build these three buildings, but has received re-zoning permission to build two larger buildings. Fair enough. The new buildings are consistent with the Tysons Plan. But Cap One doesn't want to pay the new & higher Road Fund fees ($6 and change per sq ft), arguing that it has permission to build 600,000 sq ft. But Cap One is flat out wrong. It's existing zoning will not allow it to build what it needs to build. It needs new zoning and should pay the existing fee. What sort of precedent is the County establishing?
While this is not a major sum of money, it still seems outrageous that the County wants ordinary people to pay more for transportation, but is backing down for a high-roller. This conduct is yet one more sweetheart deal. Fortunately, John Foust is concerned, but that's probably not enough. I would hope the Board would change its mind and make all who receive new zoning pay the existing fees and understand the hypocrisy of seeking higher taxes when important people can avoid them.

I'm not sure how the idea of a motorcycle only license the product a "brain damaged, trolling or that willfully ignorant" mind, personally I thought it was obvious enough that it didn't need mentioning; I guess I was wrong. Yes RICO is for organized crime, but if the idea of taking property that was bought with money earned from illegal businesses doesn't bother you, why not seize vehicles that are actually endangering lives because their owners can't and won't control them. BTW How do I despise society?

In June 2010, County staff told the Fairfax BOS that the 10 year transportation improvement needs cost estimate was $10 billion, for which $5 billion in funds were not then identified. Given the reduced outlook for federal and state transportation funding, why is the estimated local cost less today than in 2010?

Before retiring as Fairfax County's Transportation Director in 2011, Kathy Ichter told Supervisors that she had compiled a list of funded projects by Supervisor District. Somehow, Supervisors have declined to make that information public. Tom Biesiadny, to his credit, compiled a detailed list of unfunded projects, shown to a BOS Transportation Committee meeting on September 18, 2012. Instead of costs, a hard to read map is provided.

Some supervisors claimed showing project costs would confuse the public. More likely, some supervisors want to obfuscate how much money is needed for what purposes.

WMATA has estimated $13.3 billion in unfunded capital replacement costs for the original 103 miles of Metrorail over the next eight years. If Fairfax County's share is 15% of the total, then the FX Co share could be $2 billion if no federal and state funds are available, an increasingly likely prospect. This also assumes that WMATA's Board keeps on refusing to require that Metrorail riders pay into a capital replacement cost reserve. The General Assembly should require WMATA to institute capital reserve payments by riders as a condition of ongoing funding.

For the record T-Bird, a license to operate a motor vehicle and ownership of a motor vehicle is a privilege, not a right. So there is no reason why the government can't regulate the drivers/vehicles more thoroughly. And if drivers would follow the basic rules we were taught in drivers education traffic would flow more smoothly in the area.