Interested Girl
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Ro Cuchens - Fiscal Conservative
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Abby Prentiss
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I would rather vote for a skunk but this seems like a bit of a stretch. I hope all of his ethics violations and questionable dealings are enough to crush him.
He's a snake.
He's a snake.
Interested Girl
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No stretch involved - figures are from the audits for each of those years.
The truth is that the millage rate was 5.315 in 2002 before Cuchens took office and was 4.060 in his last year in office. He voted NAY on one budget and YEA on three.
The millage rate was 4.060 in 2006 before Commander took office and the tentative rate for 2010 is 4.14. Commander's nay vote this year is the first time she has opposed the set millage.
Who is the fiscal conservative?
Interested Girl
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It's sure not 'Ro'
Millage rate is just a mathematical calculation.
Expenditures are the true indicator of "fiscal conservatism".
The national tax rate is not the problem it is the out of control spending that is the problem - just as it was the problem during Mr. Cuchens tenure.
Naturally the millage rate declined - property values went thru the ceiling and without a doubling of the expenditures ad valorum taxes collected would not have increased by 114%.
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Abby Prentiss
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Sure they were partying well into the night but that budget was a freak child of the bubble was it not? I guess your point is that he was one of the hogs at the trough? One of the foxes guarding the hen house?
wrobert
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Collected taxes 2003-2006 up 225%
Collected taxes 2006-2010 up .0000000001% (if roll back is ultimately approved)
Source: CAFR, Walton County Clerk of Courts.
I showed you mine, now you show me yours. I remember a District 1 Commissioner telling me one time he did not even know what the roll back rate was. When they are flush with cash, they cut the millage and say they are cutting taxes, when they have no cash they jack the millage and say we are collecting the same this year as last year so we are not raising taxes.
Can not have it both ways, imho. That is why I look at the taxes collected, those are the dollars taken out of the economy that are used to create jobs, sell goods, and generally make a better way of life for the rest of us.
Government thinking is skewed thinking. IE, I need an electronic way to view a pdf file, do I go and buy a $139 Kindle like the private sector guy, or do I go and buy the $899 Ipad like the public sector government employee that is not spending their own dollars. In Walton County we go with the Ipad, what the heck, can also watch movies and play games.
coppertone10
Beach Comber
Who is the "Fiscal Conservative?"
Collected taxes 2003-2006 WENT UP 225% under Ro Cuchens.
Collected taxes 2006-2010 are up .0000000001% (if roll back is ultimately approved) under Sara Comander.
There's nothing left to say. Comander
is the fiscall conservative, NOT Cuchens.
If the other 4 commissioners had followed Comander's lead, our budget and millage would be lower and they would have received A+ ratings from the Taxpayers Association, too! Raising taxes is not always the best answer!!!
Collected taxes 2003-2006 WENT UP 225% under Ro Cuchens.
Collected taxes 2006-2010 are up .0000000001% (if roll back is ultimately approved) under Sara Comander.
There's nothing left to say. Comander
is the fiscall conservative, NOT Cuchens.If the other 4 commissioners had followed Comander's lead, our budget and millage would be lower and they would have received A+ ratings from the Taxpayers Association, too! Raising taxes is not always the best answer!!!
scooterbug44
SoWal Expert
I guess I don't see why a free download of an Adobe program to view a pdf isn't an option.
Maybe because I actually have to pay for stuff? :roll:
Collected taxes 2003-2006 WENT UP 225% under Ro Cuchens.
Collected taxes 2006-2010 are up .0000000001% (if roll back is ultimately approved) under Sara Comander.
There's nothing left to say. Comander
If the other 4 commissioners had followed Comander's lead, our budget and millage would be lower and they would have received A+ ratings from the Taxpayers Association, too! Raising taxes is not always the best answer!!!
The four years Cuchens was in office were boom years and revenues went up in spite of the fact that the millage rate went down. In commander's four years the market crashed and revenues basically remained nuetral in spite of the fact that the millage rate increased.
I agree that raising taxes is not the answer and the budget should be decreased before taxes are raised. Cuchens would have made the same stand that Commander made and possibly would have excercised enough leadership to halt the increase instead of being on the losing end of a 4-1 vote. I am certainly going to vote to give him a chance to do it.