We have pinhead liberals, even in Alabama!

[Bfgrn]

Wow, I am impressed you spent most of your day researching the City of Fultondale in order to 'refute' my postings... that's pretty amazing that you are so enamored with me personally, that you would go to that much trouble.

I never said a thing about "unemployment rates" in Fultondale. In case you aren't aware, Fultondale and Gardendale are both "bedroom communities" of Birmingham. About 90% of the residents in Fultondale, commute to Birmingham to work, so the high unemployment rate is most likely due to Birmingham's economic problems, and not Fultondale.

I don't know where your "blog" is getting their information, but the sales tax rate is not the same in Fultondale as Gardendale, unless they recently raised it. I know for a fact, the sales tax rates were a major reason developers chose Fultondale for the prosperous Colonial Promenade project about a decade ago. I know this from personal experience, because my parents owned property in Gardendale, where they were considering building it. They chose Fultondale instead, because of the sales tax rates.

Again, the current tax increase was said to be needed to pay for several projects, which are all projects which were supposed to be funded by the last tax increase. That increase simply didn't produce the revenues expected, so now they are raising the sales tax again, to hopefully generate revenue to pay for what the last increase failed to. What they will end up doing is repeating the same stupidity... driving business AWAY from Gardendale, to Fultondale or elsewhere. It's typical mindless stupidity from liberal pinheads!

First of all, the 'blog' posted the article from The Birmingham News. If you are so worried about driving business out of Gardendale, then vote FOR a property tax. That way the sales tax could be lowered, and property tax is a much more stable revenue. Sales tax depends on consumer purchases, something that decreases in a recession.

Councilwoman Faith Harper of the city’s financial committee said the increased sales tax is necessary because “we are a sales-tax only economy. We have no property tax here. We have been able to maintain that status and do a lot for a town our size.”

However, she said, income from sales taxes are on a decline.

http://www.njeffersonnews.com/local/x180465899/Tax-proposal-sparks-debate

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

First of all, the 'blog' posted the article from The Birmingham News. If you are so worried about driving business out of Gardendale, then vote FOR a property tax. That way the sales tax could be lowered, and property tax is a much more stable revenue. Sales tax depends on consumer purchases, something that decreases in a recession.

Councilwoman Faith Harper of the city’s financial committee said the increased sales tax is necessary because “we are a sales-tax only economy. We have no property tax here. We have been able to maintain that status and do a lot for a town our size.”

However, she said, income from sales taxes are on a decline.

http://www.njeffersonnews.com/local/x180465899/Tax-proposal-sparks-debate

Wow, you seem to be very well-informed on the LIBERAL PINHEAD viewpoint in Jefferson County Alabama, and Gardendale! You have all the Liberal rags providing you with all the Liberal talking points, but you originally contended this new tax was passed by bible-thumpin' conservatives! It was passed, and is supported... by LIBERAL PINHEADS! ...JUST LIKE YOU!!!!

I am not the least bit worried or concerned with Gardendale. I do not live in Gardendale, my parents own property there. If Gardendale adopted a property tax, they probably wouldn't own property there anymore. It doesn't matter to me that Gardendale's city council ignored 75% of the people who opposed it, to pass an increase in sales tax. That's up to the people who elect the city council to deal with, and I am sure they will. But the big budget items they want to pay for with this tax increase, were supposed to have already been paid for with the last one. Expected windfall revenues didn't materialize, because shoppers opted to go to Fultondale or elsewhere. This prompted businesses to have to close, and guess where all the business started popping up? In Fultondale, because tax rates were lower.

In your infinite database of knowledge on Jefferson County, do you have the stats on business growth in Fultondale over the past 10 years? If so, would you care to share that with us? I think it might settle this debate.

 

[Bfgrn]

Wow, you seem to be very well-informed on the LIBERAL PINHEAD viewpoint in Jefferson County Alabama, and Gardendale! You have all the Liberal rags providing you with all the Liberal talking points, but you originally contended this new tax was passed by bible-thumpin' conservatives! It was passed, and is supported... by LIBERAL PINHEADS! ...JUST LIKE YOU!!!!

I am not the least bit worried or concerned with Gardendale. I do not live in Gardendale, my parents own property there. If Gardendale adopted a property tax, they probably wouldn't own property there anymore. It doesn't matter to me that Gardendale's city council ignored 75% of the people who opposed it, to pass an increase in sales tax. That's up to the people who elect the city council to deal with, and I am sure they will. But the big budget items they want to pay for with this tax increase, were supposed to have already been paid for with the last one. Expected windfall revenues didn't materialize, because shoppers opted to go to Fultondale or elsewhere. This prompted businesses to have to close, and guess where all the business started popping up? In Fultondale, because tax rates were lower.

In your infinite database of knowledge on Jefferson County, do you have the stats on business growth in Fultondale over the past 10 years? If so, would you care to share that with us? I think it might settle this debate.

I don't live there either Dix...I don't care to live with red necks and Bible thumpers where the Saturday night pick up line is 'Nice tooth', and then they pass the possum & squirrel stew.

Fultondale has a property tax, so their sales tax is not the only source of revenue. But the right wing pea brains in Gardendale haven't figured it out yet, so they keep voting down a property tax.