Tom Davis: Expanding the Economic Pie
Do they understand that the only way to increase jobs in Fairfax is to attract companies to our county and encourage the ones already here to stay and expand?</br></br>Do they understand that 8 percent to 10 percent of the jobs in Fairfax County - that's 35,000 to 40,000 jobs - disappear and have to be replaced every year even in good times? That we have lost more than 25,000 other jobs to the recession?</br></br>Do they understand that jobs come from business, which generates so much of the tax revenue to fund transportation improvements, quality schools, parks, libraries, health care services and other elements that make Fairfax County such a desirable place to live and work?</br></br>Certainly Audrey Moore doesn't. But luckily, Tom Davis does, and so do his Republican colleagues in the race for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.</br></br>I have stood by and watched Moore dismantle programs and attack policies that worked; that helped the county prosper and grow; that brought the commercial-industrial portion of the county real estate tax base from 11.7 percent in 1978 to our promised goal of 25.5 percent in 1987; that made us the envy of much of the nation for our dynamism, our educational system and our outstanding quality of life.