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Originally Posted by Advogado
Counties with higher impact fees do just fine. .
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There seems to be an attitude amongst us Villagers that because The Villages is a large, growing retirement-community, then commercial, industrial, manufacturing, and medical facilities should be scrambling to set up shop here. Let’s take a reality check. We are nothing more than a huge retirement community where most people are living on social security and Medicare surrounded by agricultural farmland. We have an undiversified population burdened by an undiversified tax base. If raising impact fees discourages business growth, this situation will never change. We are asking the commissioners to play Russian roulette with our county’s economy. We should be asking them to maintain their business-friendly policies and start looking at the other half of the equation by finding ways to reduce government spending instead of raising taxes and imposing hidden fees.