The Board of County Commissioners with the School Board of Palm Beach County just approved the 1 penny increase in the county sales tax over the next ten years in order to raise $2.7 billion. Now all of us must approve of it in November.
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Or not. Not on your life. I will not be a sucker and increase my taxes to give a charitable contribution of one or two hundred million dollars to the frigging Braves worth $1.2 billion. And destroy one of the most valuable (and deeded) public parks in our area. And whoever is supporting this can forget my vote.
Why would anyone vote to increase their taxes? I won't vote for it! Do you think it has a chance of passing Lynn? Who would vote for it?
At least they got the ART out of there.
Next, if this County Commission takes one inch of JPP for the Atlanta Braves, I will do everything to DEFEAT it.
I have mixed feelings about it right now and wish that the School Board had their own referendum separate from the County's.
I agree with you about the art part. I will support this penny sales tax unless I find in the fine print that it will go for other purposes than what appears to be schools and infrastructure improvements. It is amazing how many money grubbing entities come out of the woodwork trying to get their little pinkies on the taxpayers dough.
Initially I heard Lake Worth could get around $250K a year for our roads. Has that changed?
I would suggest that you contact one of the Trio as they voted approval of it without knowing any details.
Since they rearranged to allocations of the tax increase spur of the moment, what's to stop them from doing the same thing again when it suits their fancy? I heard the gentleman from the school board speak and I think they are having second thoughts about teaming up with the county on this since it may skuttle their chances of getting the funding they need. We need funding for our schools. We do not need more horse trading on our dime for selected special interest groups. And I still want to know who gets the million dollar prize from the Braves.
Screw the schools, fix the infrastructure
katie's posts are always so insightful and accurate.
@7:41 Lake Worth stands to get upwards of $2 million per year for 10 years for infrastructure which is critically needed. That was before the arts were kicked out so the number is actually higher.
I'll be voting no,sales tax increase hits the poor and working class most of all.
11:20--Hope so...I'm all for fixing infrastructure but no one really knows or trusts the PB County Board of Commissioners. They could, once again, change their minds. I am looking forward to the ballot language before I commit. It sounds good on the surface--$2 mil to LW.
Whoever wrote this "I'll be voting no,sales tax increase hits the poor and working class most of all." PLEASE... what alternative do you offer to raise that kind of money?
Yes, one penny is a higher percentage for those low income people, but the largest chunks will come from wealthier people making larger purchases and tourists will contribute their fair share too.
The property tax route also hits low income people hardest unless you think landlords would just eat the increase instead of passing it on to the tenants.
When the county commissioners give up their car and travel expenses. When they give up their gold plated heath care packages,,,When they actually start to care about their citizens and not their campaign contributors,,,SO NEVER !
I'll be voting no, the County has tons of money just see how much PBSO has increased their budget in the last 10 years. It is crazy.
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