Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Actually, November is too late to vote out Butler, Burgess, and Printz. In Sumter County, whoever wins the August 18 Republican primary will win the November election. So mark your calendar accordingly.
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What we paid up north is totally irrelevant. The question is why did we have a massive tax increase here in order to preserve the Developer's sweetheart impact fee??? If you look into that question, the answer becomes pretty obvious.
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Those of you who believe that the fees are wrong, please provide some information to support your statement. |
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Corporations have benefitted from tax breaks for many years in all parts of the country.
Is it right? Maybe, maybe not. Is it different from what is happening here? Maybe, maybe not. Do I like it? Maybe, maybe not. Am I informed enough to know that corruption is the cause? No. Am I going to knee jerk react and vote for someone that I know nothing about? No. Will I vote for someone who changes parties in order to run in a primary race? No. |
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Collier County, where the Commissioners are not in the pocket of developers: around $20,000/house in a retirement community versus $901 for the Developer here (more than 20 times more than the Developer pays). Regular builders in Sumter County: $2,600/house. It is not a matter of our "believing" there is something "wrong", as you put it, going on here. It is a demonstrable fact. Look for example at the campaign contributions by the Developer and related people and businesses to Burgess's campaign in 2012, when he faced opposition. Do a little digging, on your own, into the relationships between the Developer and Commissioners. Some of this stuff can be discovered from public records. What, if if anything, cannot be discovered from public records? |
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Every time you pay your tax bill, you are, in reality, writing a check to the Developer for the amount of your tax increase. That is because the County Commissioners, who are beholden to the Developer for their jobs, voted to increase your taxes, rather than the Developer's sweetheart impact fee, to pay for the infrastructure necessitated by the Developer's massive expansion of The Villages. |
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BTW, I don't begrudge the Morses making a lot of money. They just shouldn't do it at taxpayer expense. |
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Curious....if you vote out the commissioners what do you expect the new people to do? Reduce the tax increase, pass laws that will put more burden on developers (all not just Morse), put more taxes on Villages so those that live in other parts of Sumter aren't impacted? I hear a lot of vote out the bums but nothing on what is expected.
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If the developer paid $20,000 more in impact fees, they would pass it along to the home buyer, and you'd be paying it anyway, just not in your tax bill. Or did you think "the developer" would just eat the extra expense as a gift to YOU?????? |
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Second, to the extent that the costs are passed on through higher prices, they would be paid by the purchasers of new homes, the ones that are causing the the infrastructure expenses. Thus, the costs would be borne by the Developer and the new home buyers-- exactly the people who are responsible for the infrastructure and the ones who should be paying for it. Remember, thanks to the Developer's guys on the County Commission, every time you pay your county taxes, you are, in reality, writing a check to the Developer for the amount of the tax increase. The residents of Sumter County are being played for suckers by the Developer and his tax-raising, aquifer-draining, sinkhole-causing County Commissioners. |
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Exactly the way I see it, and really...a pretty easy concept. The choice is simple. Have the beneficiary of the necessitated infrastructure improvements pay for what they made necessary...or make taxpayers subsidize them. If Da Family, or any other developer, is necessitating upgraded infrastructure due to THEIR development, it should be paid by THEM...through impact fees. If the developers choose to increase the price of their product and the direct recipient of these improvements of the infrastructure upgrades have to pay more, so be it...that's the way it's supposed to work. It's really hard for me to comprehend, why some people can't understand something this easy/basic, or are so willing to subsidize with public money...private enterprises who least need it. |
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In other words, do their job, ethically.
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I feel sorry for the county residents outside TV.
Bet they are ecstatic at paying towards all the expansion |
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