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Originally Posted by dewilson58
Prior expansions have been supplemented thru the current impact fee structure with no tax increases. The County should have increased taxes a percent or two over the last ten years. If they would have done this, the County would not have increased taxes by 25% in one year. The math is there. SO, Pay Me Now, Pay Me Later. Later is here.
So all this whining is for less than $1 per day.
County Taxes, State Taxes & Federal Taxes are used for roads that I will never use and that you will never use.
Less than $1 per day.
Even if the Impacts Fee were at 100% of the Professionally Recommended structure, the property taxes would have still increased by over 22%.
Less than $1 per day.
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I am not "whining" about "less than a dollar a day". I can afford it, but some people cannot. And the Developer's impact fees should not be limited to 100% of roads, as you imply, He ought to be paying for ALL the county infrastructure necessitated by the massive expansion of The Villages, and if some of those costs get passed on to new home buyers, fine.
The real issue here is the crony capitalism that is putting hundreds of millions of residents' dollars into the pocket of the Developer. He packed the County Commission with his puppets. The puppets then gave him a sweetheart deal on impact fees and hit the residents with a massive property-tax increase.
And I have been doing something to address this malfeasance, not "whining". This includes doing what I could to replace 3 of the Developer's puppet Commissioners with the EMS Team in the last election and insisting that the EMS Team keep their campaign promise. If anybody has been "whining", it is the defenders of the Developer now that his sweetheart deal on impact fees is under attack.