Schools and Taxes
I see that the school board wants to get more taxes out of us. Remember when we voted for the 1/2 cent gas tax for the roads. After a few years and not much work being done on the roads, I asked a councel person why the roads were not in better shape? I said that there was supposed to be a lot of money in the road tax fund. I was told that the state told them that they could put the "earmarked money in the road tax fund" into the general fund. Which they did. I will never vote for any more special tax fund. I can no longer trust our government to do what they say they will do. The lottery was supposed to enhance the educationl fund. What did they do? The cut the educational fund. Always trying to find ways to dupe us. WhiteWolf Related: whitewolf's blog | login or register to post comments | printer friendly version | Tags: Taxes
Submitted by whitewolf on Sat, 02/17/2007 - 6:51am.
I did not vote tor a local option tax. I did not vote for the 1% gas tax to go into a 2030 long range plan, I voted for the gas tax to be used on only roads. That is what the wording was when I voted for it. We could have had a lot more improvements on the roads if all the money was used on the roads. Maybe Blanding Blvd would not be a washboard if better materials were used. It still feels like I have a tire going flat on some sections. My biggist peave is that things get changed after we vote for something. No honor in our government is the way I see it.
Submitted by rbecks1979 on Sat, 02/17/2007 - 9:14am.
I think it is incredible that they want to hold off on reviewing the impact fees until AFTER we vote on a sales tax. If the sales tax passes than they will likely lower the impact fees for development. That is CRAZY!! Guess why they want to lower the impact fees? All the big developers contribute to political campaigns ( including MR Conkey he was backed by a lot of big developers).. The developers don't donate money to campaigns unless they expect something in return. So watch what happens. If the sales tax passes they will shift the burden to us (even though we already pay the impact fee when we buy our new homes they add it into the cost of the home), and we pay real estate taxes, and now they want to increase the SALES tax.. Garbage!!! They need to drive more commercial growth in Clay County to support the growing population. A lot of shopping is done outside of CLAY county resulting in lost tax revenue. We need smart leaders with a good growth MANAGEMENT plan.. Last week I read that a Jim Wilson or Jim Smith said the school board had no place in their growth management meeting. The school board is suffering with tremendous growing pains because there has NOT been smart growth management. They rubber stamp every developers plan. The builders and developers have had RECORD profits for the last few years and none of them help to build the schools. This has got to stop! WE have to get smart and manage the growth or it will manage us! People are talking about ...Here are the recent blog postings with the most comments. |
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In fairness, we have had some road improvements. The local option tax WW refers to (I think he/she is referring to the present 1% sales tax added to the state sales tax of 6%, making our total sales tax 7%)
The 1% local option tax goes to infrastructure. It has been used for roads (CR220 and CR 224 widenings) as well as courthouse expansion and even some cop cars a few years back, among other things.
For a whole lot more info on road funding visit the First Coast Metro Planning Organization website (Firstcoastmpo.com) The funding section of their 2030 long range plan details which counties in the area collect what gas taxes. The plan also details funding sources for the hundreds of projects planned between now and then.