The PWC Board of County Supervisors Floating the Big LIE!

 

Guest post by Bill Wright, a resident of Prince William County

Did you hear?  Our Supervisors want to lower your taxes.  And every drug dealer peddling his addictive drugs wants everyone to kick the habit.

 

The latest fairy tale from Chair Ann Wheeler is that increased revenue from plowing up our heritage for more data centers will result in a lower tax burden for homeowners.  And more money for schools, parks, police and fire protection.  

 

Did you realize that data centers can also help you lose weight? 

 

Data Centers are the miracle cure for everything that ails us.

 

Before you fall for this deal with the devil, check out what is already happening.  

 

Right now, Prince William has 27 operating data centers and many others under development.  Yet the annual residential real estate tax bill will rise by an average of $233 in 2022, in addition to a new 4% meals tax on struggling local restaurants.  

 

And I thought Chair Wheeler said the reason we were courting data centers to desecrate Manassas National Battlefield Park and Conway Robinson State Forest and foul the Occoquan watershed was to reduce the reliance on real estate taxes.  Yet here they are raising the tax burden on homeowners while data centers continue to get a good neighbor discount.

 

Based on what the Supervisors are DOING, how can you believe what they are SAYING?  Prince William’s tax on computer peripherals is slightly more than one third of Loudoun’s rate.  If they really meant what they say, they could have raised the tax rate on computer peripherals to offset lowering the burden on homeowners.  But they didn’t.

 

Did you know?:

 

  • Prince William offers a 60% discount over Loudoun ($1.65 per $1,000 of assessed valuation vice $4.20)
  • It takes more than 2.5 times as many data centers in Prince William County to yield the same tax revenue as Loudoun County recieves
  • To equal the tax revenue from Loudoun’s 25 million square feet of data center capacity, Prince William County would need almost 67 million square feet!

 

Make data centers pay their fair share and restrict them to the overlay district where they belong.  If our Supervisors keep giving away the store, big tech will wind up owning the joint.

 

And by the way, that "joint" is your home and your neighborhood. 


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Comments

  1. AnonymousAugust 20, 2022 at 6:04 PM

    Sadly you are right on target with this!!!

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  2. AnonymousAugust 27, 2022 at 7:19 AM

    YOUR TAXES ARE NOT GOIN DOWN. LIES, DECEIPT, CORRUPTION. MONEY HUNGRY COUNTY BOARD OF PWC SUPERVISORS. HOW CAN THEY GO TO BED AT NIGHT & KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO THE RESIDENTS IN THIS COUNTY. IGUESS LINING YOUR POCKETS WITH MILLIONS ALLOWS YOU TO DO THIS.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 29, 2022 at 2:37 PM

    Loudoun Counties tax rates are 30% higher than Fauquier's after 20 years of data center bonanza! Just because County Government get more revenue never means they are sharing it with taxpayers.

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