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Pal? Pal? Trying to speak mobsterese now, are you? Don’t choke on your gold chains or your diamond pinky ring.
FYI I have never worked as a government employee nor as a server in a restaurant. I have been somewhat successfully self-employed for three decades. If you choose to stiff some poor, hard working waiter, you just go ahead and do it. I tip well. And I tip based on service, not to make some dumbass political statement.
However, if you had any reading comprehension skills whatsoever, you would go have seen that my original comment was to the effect that the home-owning and auto-owning citizens of Fairfax County are already well burdened with real estate and until recently with automobile taxes and decals. They don’t need further taxes on those essentials.
Eating out in a restaurant is not an essential. If one is traveling on business, the expenses are deductible, so don’t look for sympathy. Tax on a meal in Fairfax County is 4%; if it were doubled it would match New York’s, and would be only slightly shy of New Jersey’s.
But we are thrilled and delighted that you are taking an interest in the Old Dominion. Virginia’s government being called “profligate” by a Joiseyite is just a hoot. Thanks for the laughs, PAL.