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Originally Posted by janmcn
Florida was slated to receive five billion a year for ten years for a total of over fifty billion dollars. These are not new federal taxes. These are federal tax dollars paid by the residents of Florida. Other states can say thank you Florida taxpayers.
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I'm not talking about taxes. When you accept Federal money to fill a budget gap, that money better continue to flow into your budget at the same rate or you will have a problem. Simple math, if I have a 10 dollar budget and I have five dollars of income, I have two choices: shrink my budget or increase revenue. If I increase my revenue and not cut my budget, I better be sure that revenue continues or I'm just prolonging the pain. This is exactly what happened in Marion County. Only there, the federal government shut off the spigot!