For as long as this thread stays up....
You are paying more than $124 now. You are paying the additional today through your property tax, it just isn't broken out for you to easily see.
You and your neighbor pay different amounts today because you and your neighbor have different taxable values today.
As is clearly stated in the published information on the IFD, taxes are capped at $124 + 0.75 mils + a maximum of an additional 1 mil (0.1 mil is used in the tax estimator).
When I looked at how much of my tax bill goes to fire protection services today and how much is likely to go to the VPSD, I will pay about $150 LESS for fire protection if the IFD passes.
NOTE: The IFD has no control over what the BoCC does. They *should* reduce the tax rate to compensate for the removal of VPSD and SCFD expenses. We'll have to see if that actually happens.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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