Our Taxes going up as entertainment tax revenue goes down
 

With the virus demanding social distancing, all the tourist attractions, theme parks, hotels, etc. will have to decrease capacities and thus sales. With a large portion of Florida's tax revenue coming from: entertainment, hotel, gasoline, alcohol and sales tax; the state will have to turn to residents to offset the shortfall in some form of an Income tax and/or real estate, sales tax increase. Either way, prepare yourself for cost of living increase in the not so distant future!

Yep. Time to grab your ankles and say "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

Classless comment.

Small tip of the iceberg, almost everything and everyone will be impacted throughout the world.

Maybe not
 

Classless to the degree that Animal House was classless. Kevin Bacon went on to bigger roles.

I agree, somethings and some people will never rise above their station in life.:clap2:

But true :)

Real humor is the fact that residents of The Villages think they should be immune to the financial facts from this pandemic or any situation that causes their taxes to increase. Now that’s funny. As I said above, this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Florida will do what it always does - raise taxes on people who live here part time but are not Florida residents and who can't vote here.

It will also call in "favors" from [politics not allowed on this forum] for YUGE bailouts.

Historians will be very unkind to today's politicians on both sides of the stage. Taxes will have to go up at the state and federal level. Our children and grandchildren have a lot of mistakes to pay for.

I agree 100%! All this spending will have to be paid back. Money doesn’t grow on trees, or printing presses in Washington DC or Tallahassee.

Just like the rest of the National Debt, It will never "be paid back". The Fed will simply crank up their printing presses, devalue the Dollar, and hope that inflation doesn't reach double digits (like it did in the 80s).

What??

Please share how the state has gone about doing that in the past??

Tax increase
 

Agree, higher taxes at the Federal and State level are inevitable.