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Originally Posted by Navy (SSBN 633)
3 of the 5 Commissioners are up for Re election in 2020...just saying
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Yup. Gotta figure - for the past 14 years, whoever has been running the show has been running a show of illusions. And now it's time to pay for the fancy facade. The good news, is it won't cost nearly as much as it costs in MOST of the rest of the country. The bad news, is that the $2500 yearly tax bill will be around $750 more this year.
Take that $750 and spread it out over the last 14 years of not having to pay for what was actually costing you the whole time, and you're actually getting a bargain.
But if you didn't like the idea that your awesome low taxes might catch up to you and bite you in the backside, you should've voted for people who were more interested in collecting for future expenses instead of showing off how little they charge you.
What they SHOULD do, is impose a couple of yearly assessments AND a modest tax increase. New homes being built can have an extra $4000 added to the sales price and funneled directly to the county coffers for their needs. Homes less than 5 years old and being sold can have an automatic $2000 fee added to the sales price, which goes to the county. Homes 5-14 years get an extra $1000 added to the sales price. Homes over 14 years old get no added cost to selling the home. Apartment buildings being built can have an additional $400 per unit added to the finished structure's tax bill for this one year only.
Then do all the above for one more year. Applies only to home sales, and the county wouldn't care who pays it, as long as it gets paid upon closing.
And then, ALL homes get an extra 5% tax increase.