Posts Tagged ‘budget’

Should we increase taxes? This is the question most fought about when considering legislative ideas for our next budget. Here’s a few thoughts on taxes and service fees ranging from raising Florida state college tuitions to the so called sin taxes. INCREASE REVENUES Increase Florida’s cigarette tax We don’t need the lowest rates in the [...]

In 2006, I requested the city start increasing transparency of expenditures. How can city commissioners really have any oversight, or anyone for that matter, without any real information to look at? As far as I can tell, there has been no change. Here’s the Lighthouse Point 2008-09 adopted budget (pdf) Here’s the City of Parkland [...]