Comments on: Escambia Approves Static Millage Rate, Defined As A Tax Increase, And $654.5 Million Budget

By: Kane

Kane — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:37:51 +0000

So, is this on top of the property tax increase the school board just approved as well or are they combined into one now?

The Problem isn’t that we are being made to pay more taxes it’s that the taxes we are already paying are not fixing the roads, funding the schools, preventing the crime, feeding the masses so where is all that tax money vanishing to? As many have pointed out we are at the bottom of lists we should be on top of and at the top of lists we should not be on at all so how is more money going to help any of this.

And as far as it goes, we are already paying more Florida taxes already thanks to our new Second National Guard and the upcoming new election police and hey let’s dump on everybody for not wanting double property tax increases in one year we won’t begin to talk about that power bill hike coming from Florida People Lose.

Spending 657,000 plus tax payers money on flying 50 immigrants to a posh island no that’s okay what a fantastic gov. I could’ve got those tickets for 38.510 dollars easy. Did he fly them first class?? Hey who paid for those fancy looking phony brochures they made up and gave out to those immigrants? Was it us? It was wasnt’ it? No one care about that though right, that’s a perfectly great use of our tax money.

Whatever happened to No taxation Without Representation?

By: DAnna Redleski

DAnna Redleski — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:28:37 +0000

I was disappointed that there wasn’t more monies added to the
Storm water drainage budgets. Escambia County needs more
Resources to do a better job of managing and maintaining
Storm water drainage and our infrastructure. Without more
Resources,our county will continue to fall behind in this area.
We hope our counties District leaders will push forward in getting
The different departments More help to do more projects to
Clean up some of the decades of neglected wetlands, Storm
Water ponds, ditches and drainage areas so that our homes
don’t continue to flood out. Flood defender- Panhandle
Strong.✌️

By: Lance McClure

Lance McClure — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:27:46 +0000

We must fund our schools, first responders, and those who maintain our infrastructure. We must be looking at our County needs for 2027 and beyond. Fund you government, then hold them accountable. Your elected leaders can’t do anything for you if they are not provided the fiscal resources required to do so.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:17:42 +0000

Escambia County has terrible schools. Our roads are falling apart. Our fire departments and libraries are underfunded. The homelessness, poverty, and food insecurity rates (especially for children) are significantly higher than the national average.

Hell, the only part of Escambia County that seems to be well funded is our sheriff’s office. But even they are unable to do anything about our high property and violent crime rates.

…and any time someone in a position of power proposes fixing any of those problems, we all clutch our pearls and scream about how paying an extra $50 in taxes every year is “literal communism”.

I swear, some of y’all would be happy to go back to living in caves and giving up on modern society because “at least I won’t have to pay taxes”

By: KG

KG — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:35:38 +0000

How much revenue is produced due to new construction??

The rolled back rate is a computed millage rate that would generate the same amount of ad valorem tax dollars as the prior fiscal year, based on the proposed year’s tax roll, excluding new construction

If they include revenue from new construction, they don’t have to raise taxes

By: StraightShooter

StraightShooter — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:21:08 +0000

For those blaming it on inflation, I bet it will never go down when inflation goes down.
The county needs to do like the rest of us and live within your means.

By: Mike Honcho

Mike Honcho — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:30:14 +0000

@me
Where are these quality services you speak of,at best they are mediocre

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 19:03:35 +0000

Vote them out. Bocc , School board and cronies. They do what they want, but when they come out for re-election say Nooooo. We are not a rich County in Florida. Stop charging taxes like we are in Dade, Palm Beach etc. they income per capital is nowhere as low as ours.

By: Tax-exempt

Tax-exempt — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:39:19 +0000

For one- if I actually got the services I already pay for from the “county, I would consider the increase( saying it’s not an increase is semantics). It is a matter of public record going back YEARS of all the times I have had to call, only to get lied to, given the run around and relegated to voicemail hell. And they think I have an ” attitude” when I keep calling. I even worked for the county for a long time, in case I didn’t mention. They are counting on you to lose interest and to fall for their double talk. As the land owning tax paying residents of Escambia county, we need to step up, together.

By: Kelly Newlan

Kelly Newlan — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:36:36 +0000

Vote them out. Hope for the best for new outlooks and more care for our citizens in our community trying to make it. End of the day the corruption is so rampant. Never ending stresses on our financial obligations.