Nope. FL law requires that tipped employees make at least the FL minimum wage ($8.46 per hour) with tips included. If they don't hit that with tips then the employer is required to make up the difference. FL minimum wage before tips for tipped employees is $5.44 per hour. Depending on where you work you can do much better than that.

Agree that wages are low and could increase. How this fits with this thread is that just as raising cost for any builder, restaurant or any kind of business will result in higher consumer prices. Business will pass on cost. The public must be willing to accept higher cost and a little pain. You have to look at all the consequences of actions not just a few and determine if society overall is willing to accept the consequences of the actions.

It is my understanding ( from an earlier post)that when the County gave the green light to continue building it was with the understanding that only if the County ( thus the tax payers) paid for all the road construction and road improvements that were needed. Thus the tax increase. The County probably doing the math with the increase knew they would be paid back big time with the additional tax dollars plus more commercial properties coming in time bringing their tax dollars also. Think it was a win win for both the County & The Developer plus ALL the jobs available to the trades performing the work. JMO

I’m sorry you hate Florida and do not live here by choice.

There are those who hate the Developer and the VHA. There are those who hate the POA. I think they create a balance in all things TV. Learn from both and draw your own conclusions.

Is there any state in the south that puts the needs of the worker bee ahead of its plantation owners? Florida is in transition, as a whole, eventually it will flip. But the plantation we live on, The Villages, will not.


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Just out of curiosity, how do you think people became billionaires from very little in a couple of generations?

I am curious too, what do you think?

I take the Olympic scoring approach. Throw out the high and low scores and add up the middle.. lol

Ohhhh I do not know, maybe create a product thru innovation, trial and error, find the right niche, exceptional marketing, quality and build on all of these things. Nothing like Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Elan Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Ross Perot, Mark Zuckerberg or any of the money grubbing millionaires/billionaires that have made their money in less than one generation. The only people who have benefitted from any of their companies was them. :icon_wink::icon_wink:

The strategy seems to be working quite well.

I would not have a major problem with the Villages Homeowners Advocates if it would just change its name to: Villages-Developer Advocates. Its silence on the Developer's offloading his infrastructure costs on Sumter County taxpayers is deafening.

Personally, I don't care if my taxes go up 300 bucks. Life sucks ya know. My challenge is timing this just right so I unload my house near it's peak, then move to an area which won't be as sensitive to the impending baby buster price decline. At that point I'll kick back. Too many people are getting their panties in a ruffle about a few bucks a year. Think how you'll feel down the road living in the worlds largest retirement shanty town. Not this guy.


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As we do not have a Mayor in the Villages, can someone tell me how we can have commissioners in the Villages. ?

Why are the taxpayers, and not the developer, paying for the expansion of the village
 

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