Posted on 05/07/2021 10:54:32 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
$6,000 bucks??? Just stay with the well and the septic tank.
“physical upgrades to schools”
I pay ad valorem tax for something labeled “School Capital Impr” on my property tax bills. “School Capital Impr” is about 20% of total school taxes in my Florida county.
New home buyers in my Florida county pay impact fees for school construction.
The well water in my part of Florida is sulfur rich.
The folks buying up houses in my neighborhood have lots of money and little tolerance for the old Florida lifestyle.
For two people pulling down $100,000+ per year together, $6,000 is three weeks income. They have money to burn.
My former neighbor Johnny went into roofing. His income was $380,000 in a recent year. He bought a house for his mom on the street and spent over $100,000 renovating it.
Jackson vetoed the Maysiville road bill because it only favored 1 state. He did support funding for Interstate road bulding.
Partisan Media Shill alert.
I may not have been clear in my original post. I wasn't trying to say that this infrastructure money would be well spent -- but that to the extent that it was useless and wasteful, it was useless and wasteful HERE in the U.S.
I don't like to see a penny of public money spent on anything that isn't needed. But building useless roads, bridges and water infrastructure here in the U.S. for exorbitant sums of money is far better for Americans than building all this same sh!t in Iraq, wouldn't you say?
I agree, but building things only to have them fall apart because of a lack of maintenance is still a waste. That is why I would favor an infrastructure maintenance set of expenditures, but not capital expenditures.
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