Worth considering but need to think about what the money can be used for.
Florida Statute 125.0104 limits this revenue to tourism promotion and specific tourism-related purposes — marketing, and publicly or nonprofit-owned facilities such as museums, auditoriums and convention centers.
It cannot be moved into general county spending, road repair, law enforcement or fire services. So basically the money collected could only be spent on encouraging more people to visit the county during tourist season. Yes, money spent on facilities (museums, possibly parks, etc) are things that we might use as well.
One of the arguments for ending it back in 2020 was criticism that the money was being used to fund the nightly entertainment in the squares which could be viewed as subsidizing the Developer's advertising.
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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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