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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Details matter and land is not stolen. Makes for a good sound bite but isn't the way things work.
Sales tax? Okay, so you are suggesting the 1% county sales tax be increased to 6% for an overall 13%.
Don't like "recurring taxes on things we own"? Fine, no problem, just establish a $5,000 annual assessment per household with an option to collect that from Fed tax returns, SS payments, or wage garnishment. Don't want to pay the Sumter County assessment? Fine, move to a county with a lower assessment.
One way or another services need to be paid for. It's wicked easy to say "no new taxes," "taxes are theft," or "tax sales are theft." It's far, far more difficult to find the funds to pay for the services that citizens demand.
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I won't lie. It won't work for the masses but I could easily and happily live off my land without cops and fire fighters and road crews. There is no cop or fire fighter that's going to make it to my property before all the damage is done. So in effect that's pointless. ANd here in The Villages and Middleton, we are paying for county AND Villages fire (paying for a service we will never use).
I'd happily got back to the early 1900's.
And let's not BS and BSer. Schools down here are crap compared to a lot of other places with lower property taxes. Roads here aren't subject to what roads in the colder part of the US are subjected to, and require more upkeep. Plus FL tolls drivers which a lot of other states don't do. EMS and cops......who knows. That's probably a push comparatively.