Posted on 05/19/2026 4:11:13 AM PDT by 4Runner
If I didn't have my garage radio tuned to NPR (my early warning system) I never would have known about the stealth plan to build yet another "professional sports complex" with a price tag of $2.3 billion in Hillsborough County. I don't even know which sports team this one's for.
The article featured Tampa's Mayor exclaiming they still had a lot of work to do on it but she hoped the "Commission" wouldn't need to "raise taxes" (hint, hint) to get it done. Excuse me, Ms. Mayor but where the hell have you been? In 2024 the County Commission got railroaded by the teachers unions into authorizing a ballot initiative to raise the county's public school teacher salaries by $6,000 per year for three consecutive years, starting in 2026. Of course the measure passed by a wide margin.
There's nothing Section 8 housing voucher renters like doing better at the polls on election day than sticking the homeowners with higher tax bills to raise the pay for their darling maniac leftist school babysitters. Now the bull's eye is once again on the 750,000 captive homeowners' backs for yet another $2.3 billion "special interest" project.
The big myth in Florida is it's a "no-state-income-tax" state. What they never tell you is your income is taxed locally. You are county-property-taxed to death if you are so unfortunate as to have purchased a home here. Then when you go to the store, look at that receipt. It shows two sales taxes. One for the state. And one for the county.
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The only people that should be allowed to vote are the ones who have skin in the game. I propose that if you are on any public assistance you now become a ward of the state whereby you lose your right to vote until you can prove you have been null and void of dragging on the government tit. This would stop the insanity of placing the burden on the backs of actual taxpayers by eliminating those who contribute nothing but taking from society. Rid us of the GIMMIDAT crowd would stop the insanity of public funding every pet project that the feel good heart string tug morons propose.
Very good idea. It makes sense.
Couldn’t agree more.
When a new Tampa Bay Buccaneer stadium was proposed so many years ago, the fools of Hillsborough county voted to tax themselves for it (penny for Hillsborough, IIRC). The billionaire owner (I cannot recall his name) made out like a bandit. I said back then that they should make a statute of him.
All leases should have a clause allowing a rent increase if taxes change or a new regulatory burden is enacted.
EC
Guess I’m not understanding why there should ever be an increase in anyone’s taxes to build a “sports complex”. Let those who really want it either pay for it or forget it.
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Guess I’m not understanding why there should ever be an increase in anyone’s taxes to build a “sports complex”. Let those who really want it either pay for it or forget it.
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‘Cuz, if I remember the talking points, there’s a L-O-T of jobs a/o incoming $$...for the 10-12 days its in use /s
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