This week, concerned Fairfax County citizens spoke for several hours about increasing taxes and affordability problems at the Board of Supervisors’ budget hearings. A mother holding her infant child, for example, told the board, “We are certain we cannot afford to expand our family here in Fairfax County.”
The board is currently considering a budget that would increase taxes, on average, another $524 per household in 2025. This is notably on the heels of the excessively generous pay raises the board offered themselves last year. Chairman Jeff McKay, for example, voted in favor of his nearly 40% annual salary increase — from $100,000 to $138,283 — which went into effect on Jan. 1, 2024. He also has a taxpayer-funded vehicle.
According to the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance, since fiscal 2000, property taxes have increased three times higher than household income. The…
