Economy, Politics and Local Government
October 31, 2009 Leave a comment
Relax.
Coral Gables property taxes are only 28.5% of your total property taxes this year! I thought they were only 25%!? What happened?
Could Coral Gables have increased its taxes when other entities did not, or did little.
October 31, 2009 Leave a comment
You will be when you open your 2009 Combined Tax Memorandum Notice and you see what you are paying for a over staffed, over paid, marginally competent city government in Coral Gables, FL. Don’t forget to add in the fire fee and trash pick costs. It will be interesting to observe how apathetic voters will be in the coming months.
October 31, 2009 Leave a comment
According to the Christian Science Monitor the government stimulus package has benefited California and North Carolina employment at a rate of 3,000 per million population. As for Florida just half as much…
Florida shows about 1,600 jobs per million residents, and Ohio 1,500. Michigan and Nevada, hit hard by an automotive recession and housing slump, respectively, report job gains that are barely above average.
Again, these are not helpful signs for Florida and Coral Gables. If I were a city commissioners, I would carefully manage our scarce public funds, cut back on subsidies and aggressively oversee the work of the city manager.
