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and not just the federal government.
The booming Florida economy is rapidly falling into a black hole. Unemployment is soaring higher every month. Property values falling through the floor. People fleeing the state. Its the state and local governments fault, not Wall Street or rich people.
For example the state adopted a policy for impact fees for construction. In this small county they built a huge building with nearly 200 new government employees for all the paperwork and studies required calculating the millions the impact fees would bring in. That building now has 7 government employees because no one builds anything.
The minimal impact fee was $13,000. That would be if you wanted to add a shed or a garage. That fee did not include building permits. If the impact study concluded the shed would have a negative impact you couldn't build it - but they kept the $13,000. The impact fee for residential waterfront property was a minimal of $40,000. This again did not include building permits.
A fella wanted to put in some chairs for his C-store. They wanted $2,000 a chair for the impact fee. When a company wanted to build a distribution warehouse as one of its shipping centers they wanted $150,000 for the impact fee.
Impact fees are not the only costs the government is adding to everything. No one builds nothing. If you need storage you rent a steel shipping container. There is no such thing as remodeling or expanding your house or business.
With less and less for the hordes of government overseers to do they become more oppressive on those businesses that still remain open to justify their jobs. The response of many businesses to close any aspect of their business or that business location if the government overseers focus on them.
The number of closed businesses and residential for sale signs is extreme and more extreme next month. People sit by the road trying to sell the personal property to pay to get out or for food. The government turned booming Florida into a huge fire sale.
Its the government, not Wall Street, throwing millions of people into unemployment and crashing property values. It isn't just the federal government.
The booming Florida economy is rapidly falling into a black hole. Unemployment is soaring higher every month. Property values falling through the floor. People fleeing the state. Its the state and local governments fault, not Wall Street or rich people.
For example the state adopted a policy for impact fees for construction. In this small county they built a huge building with nearly 200 new government employees for all the paperwork and studies required calculating the millions the impact fees would bring in. That building now has 7 government employees because no one builds anything.
The minimal impact fee was $13,000. That would be if you wanted to add a shed or a garage. That fee did not include building permits. If the impact study concluded the shed would have a negative impact you couldn't build it - but they kept the $13,000. The impact fee for residential waterfront property was a minimal of $40,000. This again did not include building permits.
A fella wanted to put in some chairs for his C-store. They wanted $2,000 a chair for the impact fee. When a company wanted to build a distribution warehouse as one of its shipping centers they wanted $150,000 for the impact fee.
Impact fees are not the only costs the government is adding to everything. No one builds nothing. If you need storage you rent a steel shipping container. There is no such thing as remodeling or expanding your house or business.
With less and less for the hordes of government overseers to do they become more oppressive on those businesses that still remain open to justify their jobs. The response of many businesses to close any aspect of their business or that business location if the government overseers focus on them.
The number of closed businesses and residential for sale signs is extreme and more extreme next month. People sit by the road trying to sell the personal property to pay to get out or for food. The government turned booming Florida into a huge fire sale.
Its the government, not Wall Street, throwing millions of people into unemployment and crashing property values. It isn't just the federal government.
