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NEW supervisors are taking office soon, new county budgets are being drawn up, new teacher contracts are being submitted, and new cries of revenue squeeze are being heard. Since nobody wants to “cut services” — a political euphemism for laying off surplus bureaucrats — and since nobody wants to raise taxes— unless it’s by some “hidden” method, such as reassessment—the cry is also being heard for “new sources” of revenue. $
And since all but the most vehement, pro-growth diehards have awakened- to the fact that new residential growth has a way of demanding more in services than it generates in revenues, the most frequent suggestion being heard for generating new revenues is through new industry.
Not just any industry, of course. The search is for “nice, clean industry,” an industrial development of a type which will pay, pay and pay taxes, and demand nothing, or practically nothing, in the why of public requirements. Everybody is looking for this magic commodity— Fairfax, Prince William, Lou
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