The Daily Sun is at it again trying to convince the unwary that an increase in impact fees is a tax increase (see pg. 1 of today's Sun owned by the developer). I think what the developer has done south of rt.44 is great, very attractive etc. I just don't want to pay for it. Any of it. I believed the developers when they said they were done, nothing further south of 44 etc. I didn't ask for any of the development going on now. I think the real tax increasers were the previous commissioners who were advocating close to a 25% Sumter county tax increase before they got bounced out of office by outraged voters. This tax would have applied to all Sumter county residents, not just to Villages residents. I don't see why a single Mom trying to keep her family together should pay for our roads , golf courses etc. The impact fee increase proposed by Search and Miller will keep the costs where they belong, with the actual beneficiaries, new homeowners in the southern sections and the developer. The Sun is virtually a bulletin board for the Associated Press and hatchet job character assassinations like in today's edition. If you want to hear the true history of this issue and not just the one-sided BS from the Sun I urge you to call Gary Search or Oren Miller. Gary Search is in the phone book.
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