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Posted: 2/9/2024 8:01:12 PM EDT
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Hahaha…
Florida sales tax of 35%. Yeah. That would be wonderful. |
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Every now and then you need to unplug to recharge. Funny how that works, huh?
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Two hooses, $5200.
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Never pass. Too many people with big SOH caps (like me ).
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LOL TANSTAAFL! How you gonna pay for schools, fire protection, police, road maintenace on the city/county level, libraries, garbage collection, street lights, and on and on.
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Soldier for Life
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I hope they aren't planning a VAT tax. That is a no go for me. I'd be interested to know where the revenue would be made up and how it gets back to the municipalities. With the amount of lottery sales in this state, that alone should do it.
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Held for years that the one thing that ought to be sacred is one's home! To that end I'd even support an income tax...........think about it, you DO NOT really own your own property if it can be taken by default of a tax billing. Hell, yes I'll support it.............anything to diminish the overgrown and burdensome bureaucracy that has become "our" government..............................it was never intended to be this way!
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Originally Posted By dogrunner: Held for years that the one thing that ought to be sacred is one's home! To that end I'd even support an income tax...........think about it, you DO NOT really own your own property if it can be taken by default of a tax billing. Hell, yes I'll support it.............anything to diminish the overgrown and burdensome bureaucracy that has become "our" government..............................it was never intended to be this way! View Quote NO income tax....trading one wrong for another is no deal. Careful what you wish for....the federal income tax rate started a 1% for everyone. Look how that turned out. |
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Just throw an impact fee on all new houses, gas stations, and car washes and we wouldn't need any other taxes at the current growth rate and we might be able to slow it down.
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Property tax should stay, but there should be caps on it. A family member has a house worth about 3 times
ours and their taxes are 6 times more than ours. We have = impact on schools, roads public services etc. Why should someone with a more expensive house pay more for the same impact on society as lessor valued property? |
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Let us never forget, government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.
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Hell no! I already paid taxes on the cash portion of my retirement portfolio. Sales tax is enough already.
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Political correctness is a devious weapon designed to silence those whose arguments cannot be refuted.
Embracing the "Progressive" American democratic party is akin to volunteering your time to erect the gallows you will one day swing from. |
Let us never forget, government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.
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I wonder if an attempt to shift from property tax to some kind of consumption tax has anything to do with the apparent explosion in really high density apartment buildings that seem to be going up everywhere around me. I'm guessing there's a breakover between trying to tax property owners to account for the number of tenants they have and just going right for the tenants' pockets instead.
Also huge land owners rejoice. I'd have to do some math but I suspect I'd be on the losing side of a change like this |
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Every now and then you need to unplug to recharge. Funny how that works, huh?
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Originally Posted By FJB247: Just throw an impact fee on all new houses, gas stations, and car washes and we wouldn't need any other taxes at the current growth rate and we might be able to slow it down. View Quote IDK about all counties. In Lee, where I used to live, I paid impact fees when I built my house. 6 years later, I got hit with more impact fees when they forced water and sewer on us. Don't remember the first. That was incorporated in the house price. Second was $6500. |
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One thing that would be bad is if the program was administered from Tallahassee. That would grow the state government and we don't need that either.
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Originally Posted By Colddeadhands61: IDK about all counties. In Lee, where I used to live, I paid impact fees when I built my house. 6 years later, I got hit with more impact fees when they forced water and sewer on us. Don't remember the first. That was incorporated in the house price. Second was $6500. View Quote I so hope that never happens to me. It happened to me in my last house and ended up costing $90 a month just for sewer. Rural sewer systems are vast and inefficient....so those on it get fuked. I'm about 8 miles, as the crow flies, from the nearest municipal pipe. I hope it's enough. |
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Originally Posted By Mudfoot: Hahaha… Florida sales tax of 35%. Yeah. That would be wonderful. View Quote Yeah, it's a terrible idea. It would crush everyone. At that point, I would move out of the State. One article I read had some "expert" and he did indeed say the FL sales tax would have to be something like 30%, so you are close. |
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Mayhaps thats the solution to our NY/NJ problem!
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Good, property taxes are the evilest of all.
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Originally Posted By Kalashnikov762: I so hope that never happens to me. It happened to me in my last house and ended up costing $90 a month just for sewer. Rural sewer systems are vast and inefficient....so those on it get fuked. I'm about 8 miles, as the crow flies, from the nearest municipal pipe. I hope it's enough. View Quote It worked great until cat 5 Ian hit us. We lost city water. Good thing I still had a well. Lift stations were all down. Sewage backing up out of manholes. Yea, at my final cost m of 32K. Had to put in with my taxes. I'm happy to be out of there. Right now, enjoying the quiet in Citrus County. |
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The bill's sponsor said sales tax would raise to 8.5% to make the difference.
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Let us never forget, government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.
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The counties would probably add an increase of sales tax to make up the difference for money they would not get. They have done it here in Brevard. We have 1% added on to the State Sales tax (supposedly for lagoon cleanup and schools). Don't know about other counties but it might happen to them as in Brevard.
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"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
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They will get their money one way or another.
If the govt is giving you money back, its only because they thought up a new way get twice as much out of you. |
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I can't think of anything to say. Nada, zip, nothing.
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eliminate part of the revenue stream, and you can expect other things to be increased. Sales tax would go up, and you would see calls for a State Income Tax
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Soldier for Life
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Originally Posted By floridahunter07: Good, because at the rate people have been moving here it won’t be like this for long View Quote It was way better back in the late 80s/early 90s when it was starting to boom but didn't yet have the population density. Very few traffic lights, easy going 2 lane highways, the bay was still clear. |
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Good..jack the bed tax another few cents and then exort Disney to pay FL 1B in taxes every year
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Election year antics....I'm not holding my breath.
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