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IT’S A FAMILIAR old argument of the growthmaniacs, that we’re surprised to still see being used, that rising taxes are caused by “citizen demand” rather than by growth. Well, in Fauquier and Prince William the “demand” for such things as elaborate county police departments, paid firemen, expanded school staffs (and salaries), complicated engineering departments, and planning departments was a direct consequence of growth. If those counties hadn’t had runaway growth, they wouldn’t need a fantastically expensive governmental apparatus to cope with greatly expanded populations.
But what about the Association’s assertion that “the costs of building new public facilities cannot all be blamed upon additional population”? Let’s look at the biggest building cost — schools — and use some figures, not airy generalizations which are presented as “facts.”
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