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To: Les H who wrote (72956)	3/4/2007 12:50:16 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

NAMBLA Sets Ambitious Policy Agenda for 2007 originatortimes.com

To: Les H who wrote (72956)	3/4/2007 1:04:20 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

In a nutshell.... By John B palmbeachpost.com March 4, 2007 11:17 AM \| Link to this My neighbor and friend, Julie C. and I, both live in identical 1,400sq ft zero lot line houses in a lower middle class neighborhood (By Palm Beach county standards). We both are commuters that work in another part of the county. My 2006 property taxes were $4,800. Her taxes were $1,800. We both pay taxes to a county where corruption (Masilotti et al) exists and where the rest of the County Commission still believes that money grows on trees and can be spent freely as they choose. The question then is will my neighbor and friend Julie C., who has been homesteaded for years, vote to change the status quo. Of course not, she is very happy having me pay more than my fair share. The logical process is to institute a property tax method common most everywhere else in the United States, and that is to tax every property owner fairly and squarely. So, as the long-term homesteaders represent the majority of the voters, the tax and spend status quo, as seen especially in Palm Beach County, will never change. Therefore, House Speaker Marco Rubio’s proposal to eliminate the property tax and replace it with a higher consumptive tax is brilliant. It is the only measure that will pass through the voters and it is the only measure that will do away with the inequities of the failed existing property tax system. ----------------------------- There it is...