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Originally Posted by Ben Franklin
I brought up Impact fees when I first heard of this tax increase. I am from a county in Southwest Florida, where the Commissioners were also in the pockets of the developers. Taxes held pretty steady until the Commissioners dropped the impact fees, then our taxes went up. The Commissioner's response was that impact fees would stymy growth. I moved to that county when the population was around 150,000 people. Today there are close to 800,000 people, and it's a parking lot on the roadways, even in the summer.
Personal responsibility means that those who are impacting the roads and schools and other areas should be the one's paying for their impact, not the people who already live in a community. We need leaders, not puppets.
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We can't decide who is who. We don't know the real names. Anybody can say anything on an anonymous forum. I praise Scott Fenstermaker for telling his real name after all of these years.
There are often, in the background in any situation, people who will benefit monetarily through a situation. It takes some real detective work to see who they are. I know of decisions by the developer that brought in medical facilities that then competed with those already here and that caused financial tension I am sure. You never know who and what people stand for. AND how they will benefit. I am always suspicious about motivation when money changes hands. Or if it is political. I don't know which is worse. I have no problem with a business making money legitimately. There are always those envious of great financial success. I love looking into things to see who benefits. And who has an ax to grind.