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johnwk
09-16-2014, 07:26 AM
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The Greenlight Pinellas Plan (http://greenlightpinellas.com/index.php/about/the-greenlight-pinellas-plan) is another classic example of a well-funded tax scam to increase taxes on Florida’s Citizens. It is being sold as a way to improve Pinellas County's bus service and construct a “future passenger rail that will significantly enhance public transportation in Pinellas County. If the proposed 1% sales tax referendum passes in November 2014, PSTA would implement the Greenlight Pinellas Plan.” The plan also asserts an “Elimination of PSTA’s nearly 3/4 mill property tax when the potential sales tax takes effect January 1, 2016.”

The facts are, Greenlight Pinellas is a plan to gouge Florida’s residents with a new tax on their purchases, and punish Florida residents who own cars and use them for transportation. Add up the 1% sales tax a Florida resident will pay a year as compared to what they now pay and Greenlight Pinellas turns out to be a massive tax increase placed upon Florida’s productive citizens while the benefits will go to the least productive while Politicians in Florida will use the plan for another money laundering operation to transfer tax revenue to their friends through sweetheart deals when the increased tax revenue is spent.

The plan is similar to Obama’s “green energy” money laundering operation in which $ Billions of tax dollars were channeled to Obama’s political donors under the guise of “green energy”. See 80% of Obama green jobs money goes to Obama donors. (http://www.mrctv.org/videos/80-obama-green-jobs-money-goes-obama-donors-green-energy-7-times-more-expensive-oil-and-coal-financial-numbers-are-stagge)

JWK



"To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen [a working person’s earned wage] and with the other to bestow upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes [Obama’s Solyndra, Chevy Volt, Fisker, Exelon swindling deals] is none the less a robbery because it is done under forms of law and called taxation."____ Savings and Loan Assc. v. Topeka,(1875).

NorthCarolinaLiberty
09-16-2014, 07:32 AM
Take that, Henry Ford!

johnwk
09-16-2014, 01:03 PM
Take that, Henry Ford!

Huh?


JWK

johnwk
09-16-2014, 04:12 PM
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I have never seen so much money being put into advocating a proposed money laundering operation in Florida as this one! The corporatists who will be benefitting from this scam are bankrolling and endless stream of propaganda ads promoting it.


JWK




Today’s corrupted politics is all about the Benjamins, and which political party's leadership can put their hand deeper into the productive working person’s pocket.

CPUd
09-16-2014, 05:09 PM
One of the talking points being fed to Pinellas County residents is the never ending ads which appear on tv and suggest tourists will be paying a very large share of the tax. But the fact is, tourists will simply avoid Pinellas County and go to places like Orlando, Miami, Sarasota, Tampa, etc. Sales tax revenue from tourists most certainly will fall dramatically in Pinellas County if “Greenlight Pinellas” is adopted.

johnwk
09-16-2014, 05:27 PM
One of the talking points being fed to Pinellas County residents is the never ending ads which appear on tv and suggest tourists will be paying a very large share of the tax. But the fact is, tourists will simply avoid Pinellas County and go to places like Orlando, Miami, Sarasota, Tampa, etc. Sales tax revenue from tourists most certainly will fall dramatically in Pinellas County if “Greenlight Pinellas” is adopted.

Now why didn't I think of that?

;)


JWK

johnwk
09-24-2014, 03:35 PM
See: No Tax for Tracks calls for PSTA head's firing over DHS funding issue (http://cltampa.com/politicalanimal/archives/2014/08/11/no-tax-for-tracks-calling-for-psta-heads-firing-over-dhs-funding-issue#.VCMmRpUtB2s)

Earlier this month, Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority Executive Director Brad Miller returned $354,000 to the Department of Homeland Security after the federal agency said that a series of Pinellas transit ads financed with those funds did not meet the requirements for an "anti-terrorism" campaign.

So, now we learn that tax revenue was misappropriated by Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority’s Executive Director, Brad Miller, to fund ads promoting the “Greenlight Pinellas” Initiative which would create more government funded jobs with lucrative salaries and outrageous retirement pension plans which will be paid for by tax payers who may never ever use the transit system.

Why isn’t this hustling flimflam artist, Brad Miller, not arrested, prosecuted and sent to jail? Last time I checked embezzlement (http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/31/653) is a crime!

For a related story see: Homeland Security grant used to produce “feel good” Greenlight Pinellas ads (http://www.saintpetersblog.com/archives/149885)

JWK




Today’s corrupted politics is all about the Benjamins, and which political party's leadership can put their hand deeper into the productive working person’s pocket.

johnwk
09-24-2014, 05:50 PM
Pinellas County’s “Greenlight Pinellas” initiative would raise the sales tax by 14%, making the county’s sales tax the highest in Florida! Estimates are taxpayers in Pinellas Country would pay about $110 MILLION a year under the proposed new tax.

JWK


Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money.Margaret Thatcher (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102953)

johnwk
09-26-2014, 03:09 PM
SEE: Local Republicans come out against Greenlight Pinellas (http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/local-republicans-come-out-against-greenlight-pinellas/2192571)

"Republicans stand for small, efficient, and effective government with reduced taxation and regulation," committee chairman Michael J. Guju said in a statement. "We believe that this proposed sales tax increase would do more harm than good, especially to the county's poorest residents, disabled veterans and our seniors on fixed incomes. Though many Pinellas Republicans support public transportation, and want to see it expanded and made more efficient, a sales tax increase which would unduly hurt those who most use public transportation makes little sense."

Republicans also note in a news release that the tax increase would make the county's sales tax the highest in Florida "with minimal exclusions."



JWK



Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money.Margaret Thatcher (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102953)