Cale Ramaker's Blog

Time to recall any Mayor or Commissioner who want to raise our TAX's, we could save alot by firing some of them, they are over paid and not worth having in office. They don't care about the Tax payer, just themselves...

There are cutbacks everywhere... especially the schools. That's what I don't understand. The schools down here are bad enough, why make them worse? I've never seen anything like it. We're expecting our first child and I can't imagine what the schools will be like in 5 or 6 years. People need to get their priorities straight!

Why not cut the City's budget the old fashioned way - lay off another 250 city staff like you did back in 2003. You did ME a favor. Dyer should have been gone a long time ago!

Baby...we've all been asking that same question now for a while! It would seem that the people are doing more then our own city, county, and state officials! That should tell a lot within itself and should also tell people just how things are being ran! Their cut backs don't co-inside with the cuts we would put inter consideration. And people wonder why we are in all this struggling downfalls.....go figure!

It's all hogwash. They cut property taxes cause they were too high and the average savings per house was said to be about $200. Then they tell us they have deficit of what, 80 billion dollars because of that? So they lay off all these teachers? I remember we did the math and that came out to there being 400 million homes in Florida.

One of the things I said in my original post: the Mayor says Orlando citizens have become accustomed to the fine services by the city and they need to uphold it. My question is: wouldn't people choose paring back some city services versus paying more in property taxes to maintain current services?

Are you enjoying Amendment One yet?? The administraion's salaries won't be cut, give up that tired, lame line. If you want services, your going to pay, bottom line. Funny how human nature works, "cut my taxes, but, ohhhhh nooooo, don't take anything away from me". Can't have it both ways. And all this because the ignorant voters couldn't think past their pathetic wallets and consider the consequences that would surely follow. Hopefully, those who voted for Amendment One will be hit the hardest. Then maybe, just maybe, they won't sell their souls yet again for some BS tax "break" rhetoric. Pitiful individuals...

and the expressway is whining about a projected 4 million loss in revenue due to less people driving! look for toll increases in the near future!

First off NOBSHERE, just look at the figures listed in the post above you. The problem is not the property tax cuts, the problem is the city spending these inflated prices. Tell me why almost everything double in cost? More bs from the city. They inflated those figures to cry wolf and get more money out of us again. The city can operate just fine with the tax cuts using the figures from the year before. Someone should investigate these figures and do an audit on the city.