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Originally Posted by Arlington2
It will be a complicated and confusing process. Employees of VCCD are government employees. Benefits will change. For instance, employees will not pay SS, but will be able to put money into a tax deferred 401. The VCCD does not match employee contributions to the 401. It is not obvious how a government employee can legally service a private enterprise such as the championship golf courses. It is one thing for a government to contract out work to private companies, but something entirely different for a private company to hire government employees. It is also not obvious how a government employee can legally accept preferential discounts at the country club. I am sure the developer has thought through the process, but I hope the ACC is looking at it with eyes wide open.
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Employees pay social security taxes. MOST non-management employees of MOST municipalities nationwide pay social security tax. The VCCDD isn't a normal government. It is a special government, with different standards and criteria than normal municipalities. Regardless, it, like most municipalities, employ people who pay social security taxes out of their paychecks. The Villages Holding company is still footing the bill. It's just going through the VCCDD now as a method of consolidating expenses since so much of the rest of the running of the "public access" of the Villages goes through the VCCDD already.