This Sunday, the Orlando Sentinel printed a table of per capita property tax growth for 5 counties and 16 municipalities in Central Florida.
Kissimmee had the third highest per capita property tax growth (16.51%) between 2001 and 2006 of those governments listed. We lost out to Debary (21.27%) and a tie between Belle Isle and Windemere (17.14% each).
According to the table, in 2001, property taxes in Kissimmee were $141.34 per resident. By 2006 those taxes had grown to $303.50 per resident.
In comparison, those "big spenders", Orlando and Orange County, had annual growth rates of 7.24% and 7.25% respectively. Locally, St. Cloud came in at 12.92% and Osceola County was 10.10%.
So, commissioners, the clueless commoners would like to know... did we over-accelerate our government spending? Are our service costs out of whack? Did the lack of business growth/economic diversity hurt us? Or will it be some convoluted explanation like "if we had spent more money on government services back in the early 2000s, the growth rate wouldn't have been so high in the later years?"
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If you look at the agenda for this week, you will see that the CRA is working to expand the amount of regulations on businesses in the CRA overlay district. Again they are forcing private property owners to conform to standards that only a few get to select. And those few do not live in the downtown. The best part is that the more they regulate, the more it costs to montior the regulations. So the formula for the City is, over-regulate so businesses do not want to open, and then tax the ones that do to the brink of destruction. I think CRA stands for Clueless Regulation Agency.
So it looks like the clueless common, uninformed taxpayer must know something.
That is why the Sentinel reported the #1 most important issue facing Florida today is taxes and government spending.
Property taxes also came out head and shoulders ahead of every other government revenue source as the least fair.
If elected officials cannot understand that while in office, they will have plenty of time to reflect on it when voted out.
Tom Long
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