Taxpayer dollars should go back to those who chip in, not to those who are making billions of dollars as a result of our money going to support their businesses! Corporations should be paying for the ability to come into our community, use our resources, have our citizens as employees, stakeholders, and customers.

 

Communities have the right to determine how they are run.  Communities have the right to say “no” to a development that they do not want.  This sneaking in of the elimination of local rights by Ron DeSantis and the GOP in the FL Legislature via the anti-“woke” agenda, and the anti- people of color movement is a violation of our Constitutionally given rights.  There are many ways to improve the cost of living here. But, forcing a bill onto the people while misinforming them about the real intent and the real result, but tempting them with reduced taxes is just another of the many fascist moves that DeSantis has pulled.  Planted in the back of the bill is the reassurance that the state, The GOP controlled Tallahassee, would provide the money that they would determine to be used by each and every community and for the uses that they deem worthy.   They have already stripped our schools to the point of being non-functional.  Where are the police when we need them?  Currently, they are apparently helping ICE, so much so, we are #1 for Immigrant abductions.  As it is, the citizens did not receive the covid money given to this state to help with unemployment or food needs.  Instead, they used that money to illegally transport LEGAL migrants from Texas to the Cape of Massachusetts.  That is hundreds of thousands of dollars that could have gone to education, to healthcare, to the homeless, to vets, to low income housing, to TANF for low income families.  Then, they withheld our FEMA money and spent MILLIONS of dollars on an illegal camp, commonly referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz”, rather than helping those of us who have been shorted by our outrageously priced insurance!  It is bad enough having to deal with the breach of contract by our own insurance companies, but when our own representatives do NOTHING to help us and then literally steal the money to put towards something that is so evil that it is a considered a violation of International Human rights, it is OUTRAGEOUS!