[Bucco]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

All newspapers and news outlets push there ceo agenda.
Funny how news outlets can see sun rise differently. Instead of just reporting the facts the sun has risen, they have input their agenda to cloud simple minds with Bs.

Interesting, you place the Daily Sun as a “news outlet”.

They are NOT a news outlet, never have been, never will, and most importantly never claimed to be. They find no need to report all the news, and select only positive (in the view of the “family”) items from national wire services.

Comparing them to any “news outlet” is a manifestation of ones own severe limited knowledge.

Again, this is not negative in any way. If you want real news, skip the Daily Sun, because if it does not fit the “motives” of the family. You will. It find it.

Limiting your news to what is reported in the Daily Sun severely limits your knowledge.

I must add, have read it daily for twenty years, but not for news.

[Northwoods]

If you are going to label The Daily Sun as "pro Developer," then you have to label "that other online newspaper" as anti-developer. "That other online newspaper" takes every opportunity to communicate a negative story regarding The Developer and The Villages. So.... you have both sides of the story.

[Bucco]

Originally Posted by Northwoods

If you are going to label The Daily Sun as "pro Developer," then you have to label "that other online newspaper" as anti-developer. "That other online newspaper" takes every opportunity to communicate a negative story regarding The Developer and The Villages. So.... you have both sides of the story.

Please do not say you expect NEWS from the site you are refer to.

That is checking police blotter kind of information, at best.

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

You constantly state that the "developer" should pay the impact fees----when in reality the developer will just pass the cost on to the buyer. You have stated that the developer won't be able to do that, but in this market he most certainly can.

If your argument was that the new home buyers should bear the impact fee because they are creating the cost, it would have a bit more merit. But then you'd have to change your tagline to "the new homeowner's sweetheart impact fee deal"

If the developer will just pass on the impact fee in this market then why is he saying construction will slow down. Maybe because demand is not inelastic as you incorrectly assume. BTW your opinion is just one point on a demand curve.

As for the Daily Sun we cancelled it because it gets it national news from a lot of biased sources like the AP and its developer propaganda. Also the many multi page biographies are boring.

Originally Posted by Northwoods

If you are going to label The Daily Sun as "pro Developer," then you have to label "that other online newspaper" as anti-developer. "That other online newspaper" takes every opportunity to communicate a negative story regarding The Developer and The Villages. So.... you have both sides of the story.

The other paper’s stories regarding The Villages might be anti developer but they are factual not fake news like the Daily Sun.

[Northwoods]

Originally Posted by John41

The other paper’s stories regarding The Villages might be anti developer but they are factual not fake news like the Daily Sun.

My opinion is that "the other" news source is as opinionated as The Daily Sun. I find both "factual" based on your views.

[Tom2172]

Developers alway pay the impact fees for new roads & infrastructure!
expect when developers have politicians that are more interested in working for the developers and not the people that elected then!

[Bandb875]

Stu, I can't tell if you are sarcastic or if you didn't read any newspaper the last 4 years. It is all narrative, journalism is a lost art. The Daily Sun is now, and will be forever, a infomercial.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by John41

If the developer will just pass on the impact fee in this market then why is he saying construction will slow down. Maybe because demand is not inelastic as you incorrectly assume. BTW your opinion is just one point on a demand curve.

True, you are incorrect in YOUR assumptions. BTW you opinion is just one point on a bizarre curve.

[Sabella]

Originally Posted by Advogado

The head-line article in today's Daily Sun is the latest impact-fee bull shoveled by the Developer's Minister of Propaganda, David R. Corder. It nowhere mentions the decrease in property taxes that would match the increase in impact fees. Estep, Miller, and Search ran on a platform of reversing the 25% property-tax increase imposed by the Developer's puppet Commissioners to preserve the Developer's sweetheart impact fee.

Mr. Corder constantly describes the proposed impact-fee increase as a "tax increase". It would not be a tax increase. It would be a SHIFTING of taxes to pay for the Developer's county infrastructure (roads, police, fire, etc.) from the present residents to the Developer, who should be bearing such costs. The net result would be a tax decrease for current businesses and residents. New or existing businesses building a new structure would pay the impact fee once and then enjoy lower property taxes, amortizing and deducting the impact fee over the life of the building.

Again, this would be a tax break for existing, COVID-impacted businesses. Furthermore, expanding existing businesses filling up the many existing vacant premises would pay no impact fee and would enjoy the benefit of lower property taxes. Unfortunately, the issue is complicated and, for many residents, the Developer's newspaper is their only source of local news. These folks may well believe Mr. Corder's distortion of the facts.

Thank you for your intelligent and true statement

[donfey]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

It is remarkable how the paper continues to publish a very one sided view of this. Would have thought they would put in at least one person saying why they think the developer should be paying more but not what the paper is told to publish.

I have said it before and will say it again think there is ample room to compromise but since when does responsible journalism allow an editorial to be published as a news article.

Development costs should be paid by the developer. No-brainer 101.

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by donfey

Development costs should be paid by the developer. No-brainer 101.

They never are.
Only a portion.
No-brainer 101

[Stu from NYC]

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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

It is remarkable how the paper continues to publish a very one sided view of this. Would have thought they would put in at least one person saying why they think the developer should be paying more but not what the paper is told to publish.

I agree with what others have said about advertising.
But you come from NY...haven't you heard of The New York Times? They have perfected one sided views.

Once upon a time the NYT was an outstanding newspaper.

So sad what it has become.

[crash]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

It is remarkable how the paper continues to publish a very one sided view of this. Would have thought they would put in at least one person saying why they think the developer should be paying more but not what the paper is told to publish.

I have said it before and will say it again think there is ample room to compromise but since when does responsible journalism allow an editorial to be published as a news article.

The paper is owned by the developer so will never publish something that goes against his interests.

[villager4]

Mark Morse is the new poster boy for greed. It is ok according to Mark for the Villages home owners to pay a 25% increase in real estate taxes for the rest of their lives but not ok for the developer to pay higher impact fees once for each new home. Do not forget that the 25% increase in real estate taxes was necessitated because the county agreed to build roads for the Mark's continued home building. The impact fees are specifically intended to off set the counties cost of providing roads and other services. Encase anyone does not know, Mark owns the Daily Sun and the recent articles on impact fees are garbage.