The bond payment is irrelevant. It is not a tax, but a deferred cost of the home. Everything covered by the bond is normally added to the home cost.

The infrastructure cost should be added to the price of the house. CDD is a method for developers to make more money.

Just goes to show you that a study can be made to show what ever outcome is needed. Citizens are leaving in record numbers from each and every one of the states listed. I call BS on this study.

From the net: "While self-described as politically neutral, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy was described as a “liberal think tank” by Pew Research Center. 3The organization’s official Twitter account has posted and retweeted articles critical to President Trump’s tax policies. ITEP also posted a Salon article to their website alleging GOP donors to be the only class favorable to Trump’s tax cuts."

Enough said.

Most people agree that the rich should pay more ....that it is the fairest system. It makes a society, like the US once was, stronger because it encourages upward mobility and a strong middle class. A weak middle class is more vulnerable to takeover either externally or internally. If you think about it from the framework of ancient history. The stratified society of the Roman Empire fell apart as their leaders became too self-absorbed and eventually the Germanic Tribes prevailed. Countries fall apart internally at first.
.........Today the US tax system does NOT encourage upward mobility. So the middle class is left to ROT with problems of crime, drugs, suicide, race relations and other internal strife. Manufacturing technology is outsourced to China, which made GREAT wealth for one segment of the US society, and NOT the middle class.
..........The Florida tax system is designed to discourage upward mobility as is the amount of money spent on elementary and secondary public education. The principle in Florida Education is "elite" education.

SO the "ultra-high income" folks don't pay taxes because they itemize? :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl: Yes, they do get some breaks, BUT they also pay the majority of the income revenue going into the treasury that pays for all the benefits that the low income folks enjoy.
Do you realize that a lot of middle income level folks pay NO income taxes if they are a family of four? As a matter of fact, I know of one couple in the villages that has an income of over $70K a year and legally pays NO income tax.
Personally, I believe taxing any group of folks in America at a higher rate than anyone else should be a Constitutional violation regarding discrimination.

Sales tax is regressive - it hits poor people harder than rich people. Let's say 2 mothers are buying clothes and school supplies for their children. One mother is poor and the other is rich. They both buy the same total amount. The poor mother barely can afford her purchases and the additional sales tax is significant to HER. But not to the rich mother - the purchases AND the sales tax are just a small "drop in the bucket" to her.
.........That is why sales tax affects the upper class LESS than the lower class.
.........And as far as property tax goes, most lower class people can't afford to buy real estate.

People in The Villages don't have to worry about upward mobility. They have already made it. States at the end of that list use their progressive tax base to encourage upward mobility. Florida does not NEED to encourage innovation and upward mobility because it gets its state money coming in from tourists and older retirees that bring their retirements and wealth down with them from the Northern (more progressive) states.
..........Apparently, the progressive states work best for the younger working age people, which allows them to accumulate wealth and then retire...........to the regressive states like Florida where they can play golf and HOPE to stay healthy.

A good explanation !

So we should embrace taxes as a way to heal us all and reduce income disparity? Ludicrous. If you ask most of us, it would be better across the board to reduce all taxes. The government has way overreached.

I would suggest that society create and stimulate UPWARD MOBILITY by having a progressive tax structure (also good PUBLIC education and other PROGRESSIVE programs). That gives society a strong middle class and a strong middle class makes for a strong society. With a strong middle class and good PUBLIC school outcomes a country will have fewer and fewer people left behind that become susceptible to crime, gangs, drugs, suicide which weaken the country.
........I believe that the US has destroyed its own middle class by outsourcing to China and making tax policy ly the RICH and for the RICH. And other countries in the world are observing our weakness.

Who? Socialists? People that leach off of government?

More in Marion county.

No law against voluntary paying more. Local and federal government loves spending some else’s money. So pay up or —- up. :o

City Tax
 

That’s just Wildwood city taxes for each year. Sumter likes to add another 6500 with county and school taxes. Then they pretend there just a small amount we’ll add on for fire.