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Originally Posted by biker1
I suspect The Villages, like the companies I worked for, has a gross margin target for their product. Any impact fee is just another cost and will be paid by the customer. You mentioned competition. The Villages essentially has no competition. I doubt a price increase, of say $10K for an increased impact fee, would affect sales as they sell everything they can build, and they have been doing it for sometime now. Trying to compare The Villages to GM is not useful. GM has lots of competition.
As I indicated in my post, someone was going to pay for the roads and it turned out to be the existing residents, so, yes, I agree with your last statement. I wonder if bonds could have been floated?
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If the Developer could further increase his prices without decreasing sales, he would have already done so. He is not running a charity. He does have competition-- throughout the whole state of Florida.
While he clearly cannot simply raise prices to pass on an increased impact fee, I don't care if he could pass all or some of it along. With increased impact fees, that would be his problem, and the existing taxpayers would not be paying for his massive expansion of The Villages.
BTW, if you are going to defend the indefensible tax hike, would you please reveal your true identity.