XPost: alt.politics.usa, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southeast/florida-property-tax-desantis/
. . .
Check, they DID go WAY up the past few years - mostly
driven by the latest real-estate bubble. Alas a lot of
residents are retired or near-retired ... don't have
infinite money to pay the new fat taxes. DO VOTE though,
regularly.
BUT ... what's been unclear is where operational MONEY
will come from without property taxes. It's a LOT of
money. Typical, boring, NEEDED 'govt services' are not
really free ... people have to be paid, equipment bought,
actions coordinated ... so what happens when the water
main bursts in the middle of the street ? When yer
neighborhood catches fire ? When criminals strike ?
Florida, for now anyway, is doing very WELL. Lots
of money/biz coming in - mostly to escape the damned
blue state horrors. That MIGHT make up for pTax, at
least for awhile. Won't work forever though.
Proposal ... prove you can, say, HALF pTaxes. That
would go over well AND test the methods and assumptions.
If no huge disaster, reduce pTax by like 25% each year
until there IS a problem.
Guess, 10 years or so, pTaxes will HAVE to start up
again. 'Services' cost too much, so no escape.
Sorry, but no Robo-Slaves yet to do all the work, not
for maybe 25 years despite all the AI hype.
Alt - insulate pTax from real-estate bubbles. These
bubbles are recurring - one ends, the next starts,
nobody learns a damned thing, ever.
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