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Originally Posted by Normal
But there is taxation redundancy for people who live in areas where the Sheriff’s Department isn’t needed or required. If I pay for police support already in Wildwood, Leesburg or Lady Lake, I don’t need the Sheriffs Department. I already have a city police department. Perhaps a skeleton sized crew for state warrants or corrections, but there is no need to pay for two police departments. I guess the unincorporated portions benefit, but Wildwood residents get nothing from the increased spending.
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Different ways of looking at it.
1. Your tax funds pay little of the Sheriff budget and mine pay less of county funding of Wildwood items. It all looks the same on the tax notice but the money is used differently.
2. You live in the county so you pay for county services whether you use them or not. I live in the county so I pay for school teachers whether I use them or not. We all pay for maintenance of the roads around Webster and Mabel though few of us will ever drive on them. The county services cost less for each of us because we all pay for them. You get better police coverage because your Wildwood taxes fund fewer services leaving more for the Wildwood PD.
3. Disband the Wildwood PD and your county taxes will increase to plus up the Sheriff staffing needed to answer calls in Wildwood.
4. For the increased spending, you actually receive service from two departments while I only receive service from one.
5. If you live in Wildwood then you can be elected to the Wildwood city council and push to disband the PD and lower your taxes - be part of the solution.