I suspect tax increases are in all our futures, especially in Homestead: Wow! almost a 25% downward spiral. You can't make that up with budget cuts. And then the City of Homestead residents also have to deal with the fall of Miami-Dade County revenues and the drop in school revenues (all separate taxing entities). Homestead residents are going to get murdered. Even the tony towns, like Coral Gables, Indian Creek and Pinecrest lost around 5%. Medley did the best with a .7% drop. Does anyone know where Medley is? I just looked it up, it has 1,500 residents and 1,800 businesses and it is in NW Miami-Dade. Most cities have about a 10% voter turnout. Medley could elect it's Mayor with 150 votes. If I move, I could be a Mayor! I am sure I could get 200 people out with my empty promises. Medley needs a change, the current Mayor has been in office for 16 years. It is like being a County Commissioner, a post for life!
Read it and weep. (Hit on image to enlarge it).
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Cutler Bay and some of the other smaller towns took a whack, too. That is sad for Cutler Bay because they were just getting on their feet... thank you, Lennar.
Hey! The city of The Children's Trust didn't do so poorly after all. so did they dump programs "just because"?
I still would like to see all the funding/monitoring audits for all their pet programs... May be there should be a public records request?
Children's Trust is a taxing entity thanks to voters, they are not a city. The last 4 or 5 have line items on your tax return.
Yes we have a lot to thank the "voters" for, 13 of the best County Commissioners anyone could hope for and a Mayor that residents in other counties can only dream about. Did I mention the half percent ( half cent does not exist yet) tax for the Peoples Transportation Plan (left over from Mao's Great Leap forward), and the Children's Trust (Orwell couldn't have come up with a better name).
The trust appears on the list like a city. I bet a city would like their dough.
Whereas the Florida state constitution forbids the state from collecting property taxes, this same constitution allows the counties within the state to collect said taxes.
Where, the US Constitution, in article 1 section 9 line 4 forbids Direct Taxation,
being that a direct tax is a tax named and directed towards the items to be taxed.
Direct taxation of real and personal property by Miami Dade County makes null the concept of private property ownership.
Where the perpetual taxation of real and personal property abolishes the concept of Allodial title granted to the American people.
Where the citizens in the county cannot own any property free and clear because direct taxation of personal and real property is an infinite tax.
Notwithstanding, the 16th Amendment nullification of the apportionment clause in Article 1, as the subsequent court cases have made it clear, the 16th Amendment dealt with only the taxation of income, therefore the prohibition of the direct taxation clause of real and personal property remains intact. The case of Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co., 348 U.S. 426 (1955) showed that only income clearly realized should be taxed not the property. Private property such as a homestead does not generate income until said property is transferred or sold to other owners. The counties taxation of accrued Ad Valorem prior to the exchange of ownership constitutes the taxation of nonexistent income that leads directly to the confiscation of real property owned by the citizens who have no intention of ever selling for profit or loss unless forced by property taxes. The fact that the average tax payer in less than 12 years will pay over 50% of the original purchase price on any given property, proves the point as to why the founding fathers inserted the no direct taxation clause.
The plaintiff seeks the immediate arrest and nullification of all sales of tax certificates in the county and the collection of said property taxes dating back to January 2000.
What happened to the Children's Trust Blog ? - did they hack in and take it off like their web manager bragged and stated he did ????
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