Smiling JOe
SoWal Expert
Ms Kitty, did you read that? florida girl called you "internet savvy." lol.
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Miss Kitty
Meow
....just catching up! Thanks for the shout out! 
Darth Vader
Banned
I say the key word here is Incorporate! Thats right all these people that are busy pointing fingers and want to tell the county how to spend the money they collect as a whole for one little strip on the south side of the county needs to "Incorporate!" That would allow people like Dave to run for Mayor and others to have the power to control what goes on in their "Incorporated" area. I say Walton county Tax payers need to stand up and say if you do not like it, INCORPORATE!. Have your own Police and Fire and heck even your own TDC. The 30A neighborhood is just that a neighborhood with subdivisions. Why would any of us that pay taxes allow a handful of "Oh My's" dictate what the county should do as a whole. This guy Dave owns a business in the Seaside subdivision of Walton County? He surely does not represent the entire business community.
If Seaside subdivision wants to have "Pretty" signs, than Incorporate and spend your own tax Money.
If Seaside subdivision wants to have "Pretty" signs, than Incorporate and spend your own tax Money.
scooterbug44
SoWal Expert
No offense, but if someone isn't internet/computer savvy in 2008 they are missing out on a whole lot more than a discussion of topics. There is not a more cost effective, rapid, or democratic way of having a discussion than via a free community message board.
And the "unfavored" ones have free access to a computer and help on using it at the public library.
ShallowsNole
Beach Fanatic
I say the key word here is Incorporate! Thats right all these people that are busy pointing fingers and want to tell the county how to spend the money they collect as a whole for one little strip on the south side of the county needs to "Incorporate!" That would allow people like Dave to run for Mayor and others to have the power to control what goes on in their "Incorporated" area. I say Walton county Tax payers need to stand up and say if you do not like it, INCORPORATE!. Have your own Police and Fire and heck even your own TDC. The 30A neighborhood is just that a neighborhood with subdivisions. Why would any of us that pay taxes allow a handful of "Oh My's" dictate what the county should do as a whole. This guy Dave owns a business in the Seaside subdivision of Walton County? He surely does not represent the entire business community.
If Seaside subdivision wants to have "Pretty" signs, than Incorporate and spend your own tax Money.
No incorporation, please. Look at Destin. And who patrols the streets of Destin? Who builds their beach walkovers? Hint: neither agency has the word "Destin" in their name.
wrobert
Beach Fanatic
No incorporation, please. Look at Destin. And who patrols the streets of Destin? Who builds their beach walkovers? Hint: neither agency has the word "Destin" in their name.
Incorporate? If the problem is tax dollars how is that suppose to help? You get to keep paying county tax, plus a new city tax, and the county would be providing fewer services. I guess those of us in the boonies would appreciate it. We would have even more dollars to spend on things in our area.
Smiling JOe
SoWal Expert
I agree with WaltonGOP. If you think property taxes are high now, wait until you they double from having City tax on top of County Tax. Currently, property tax is less than .9 % (that is, point nine percent). The city from which I moved, had a combined tax amount of 2.8 % (city and county). I'm not sure how you think incorporating would benefit SoWallers. If you think it will make SoWallers take more of a stand, or show up at City meetings, than those who currently attend County meetings, I think you haven't been to a County meeting yet. It won't happen. In my opinion, it would just lead to more wasteful spending, and make things even more confusing.
chrisv
Beach Fanatic
No offense, but if someone isn't internet/computer savvy in 2008 they are missing out on a whole lot more than a discussion of topics. There is not a more cost effective, rapid, or democratic way of having a discussion than via a free community message board.
And the "unfavored" ones have free access to a computer and help on using it at the public library.
It's interesting, I have to work hard to remember the days before the internet (how did I get through school without myspace or facebook?) I suppose I have been a user of it since around 1992, when I remember thinking about how cool it was to be able to print out ski resort snow reports from text-only sites on prodigy! I actually started a business that provided commercial RE sales data online back then; everybody said "that's cool, but can I get it in a book?!" So it's hard for me to understand that there are a lot of folks that still see/use the internets as a gimmick or toy. Even if they have free, tutored access to it, we shouldn't give them less of a voice or weight of opinion if they choose not to use it.
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