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Originally Posted by Mleeja
Have you ever wondered how communities build football stadiums, baseball parks, etc.? They issue bonds then payoff the bonds by enacting hotel taxes, rental car taxes, and extra sales taxes, etc. It is not the team owners financing the stadiums. The same thing is happening here on a smaller scale. The hotel tax is used for paying for the entertainment on the squares. If this is taken away, I would expect the entertain to end. At least at LSL and Brownwood.
I hope these guys lose. It seems they will be just anti-developer and do anything to “stick-it” to the Morse family. That is not what we need to grow. Let’s face it, the Morse family can walk away from The Villages anytime they want. Think about all the jobs and opportunities that would be lost.
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Maybe that's how they do it in hotel-rich communities but in the town I lived in, we only had one motel and no hotels. We had one rental car service that had maybe 5 cars available, total, one UHaul drop-off garage. And yet we managed to build a gorgeous new High School with a high-end stadium, rebuilt several public parks, and renovated the library. How? With property taxes. We paid through the nose. And got a beautiful, well-run, efficient town in return.
If we had a lot of hotels, I probably wouldn't have wanted to live there. Our town was settled, not a lot of transients, not a tourism destination. It was better that way.