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Originally Posted by ScottFenstermaker
None of us know what the real cost of the new district would have been to us because none of us know what the unelected fire-district board members would have decided to do with the tax rate or how much, if at all, the county commission would have reduced our county tax.
Another of MANY facts that none of us know, but the proponents do know: What would the new district have done to the Developer's taxes? (The $10 million cap on taxable value was a nice break for the Developer, but what would the other tax effects have been?) In other words, were we, once again, being asked to subsidize the Developer's business???
The proposed fire district was a pig in a poke being sold to us, and a majority of us said, "Sorry, we are not buying it."
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You say "pig in a poke" and I say "cut off your nose to spite your face."
The Developers pay according to the same equation we all would have. Raise my ad-valorem by .1mil and the Developer's ad-valorem increases by .1mil. The ONLY difference: My increase would be about $30 while the Developer's would be $38,600 on ONLY those properties valued at over $10M (and they own thousands of others).
As for knowing real costs: I don't know what my property taxes will be next year; all I know is they change every year in this county. I'm still not packing up to go back to Md - I'm not willing to cut off my nose to spite my face.
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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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