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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
SO WHAT?????
If the developer paid $20,000 more in impact fees, they would pass it along to the home buyer, and you'd be paying it anyway, just not in your tax bill. Or did you think "the developer" would just eat the extra expense as a gift to YOU??????:1r otfl:  |
First, businesses cannot simply pass on all increased costs to consumers. If they could, they would raise their prices before the cost increases.
Second, to the extent that the costs are passed on through higher prices, they would be paid by the purchasers of new homes, the ones that are causing the the infrastructure expenses. Thus, the costs would be borne by the Developer and the new home buyers-- exactly the people who are responsible for the infrastructure and the ones who should be paying for it.
Remember, thanks to the Developer's guys on the County Commission, every time you pay your county taxes, you are, in reality, writing a check to the Developer for the amount of the tax increase. The residents of Sumter County are being played for suckers by the Developer and his tax-raising, aquifer-draining, sinkhole-causing County Commissioners.