Tax Day Rally
Tax Day Rally
Tuesday April 18 th
4 PM to 6 PM
PGA Blvd and MILITARY Trail
Bring Signs / We will also have signs available
Please support
PresidentTrump’s
Tax Reform Measure
PBCTP Co-Hosts Palm Beach Gardens Forum on 2/28
Gun Show 2/11
The Palm Beach County Tea Party actively supports the monthly fairgrounds gun show. We consider the show as a great opportunity to meet & greet many many conservative, pro protective firearms ownership locals. We have a table at each show that is staffed by Tea Party members, including some very firearms knowledgeable members. We also have information about the Tea Party’s goals and tenets. In addition, we welcome discussions and questions about current national and world events.
The next show is next weekend. It starts on Saturday; February 11th at nine A.M. There will also be a show starting at ten A.M. on Sunday.
Hope To See You There!
Joe Burge,PE
Action Alert – Thank your Legislators for the Rail Bill
ACTION ALERT
We have just had 2 very important bills filed in the Florida Senate and House.
They Are: Senate Bill 386 (High Speed Rail Safety Act); House Bill 269 (High Speed Passenger Rail).
These bills require the Florida Dept. of Transportation to supervise and require companies to:
- Construct, Maintain and Repair their needed infrastructure
- Construct and Maintain Fences;
- Be Liable for certain Damages and be Responsible for Certain Improvements/Upgrades;
- Be Responsible for Administrative Fines, Suits and Legal Costs;
- Comply with minimum Safety Requirements & Reporting;
- Comply with Federal Laws & Regulations;
- Authorizes local governments to enact certain railroad speed limits.
I said important! These requirements will help save our communities, many life’s and put the costs on the back of the railroads. This is what we have been asking for many years.
Please Help! These bills will soon be assigned to committees and voted on.
WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE CO-SPONSORS OF THESE BILLS AND THANK THEM!
To write bills like these is very difficult, legally arduous and a real threats to the big money railroad proponents.
Indeed these Representatives Are Brave. Also if you ask them to keep you up to date as these bills go through committees, They Will.
District Office Phone Numbers:
- Sen. Mayfield (321)-409-2025
- Rep. Magar (772) 545-3481
- Rep. Harrell (772) 221-4011
- Rep. Grall (772) 778-5055
- Sen. Joe Negron, Pres. of Sen. (772) 219-1665
Thank you for your help! It is important to let our legislature know that we appreciate what they are doing for us.
Rally at Bill Nelson’s Office January 10
Where:
413 Clematis Street
Suite 210
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
(map)
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
Use this Link to Register (EventBrite)
VOTE NO on the SALES TAX
Shortly, the Economic Council and others will be spending over $200,000 to convince you that the county sales tax should be raised to 7%. You will hear that the infrastructure is crumbling, that the children are sweating in their classrooms with broken air conditioners, that the roads have potholes and the bridges are falling down. You will hear that a sales tax is good because 25% of it will come from tourists, and that tens of thousands of jobs will be created to rebuild those roads and bridges, county buildings, the jail and the parks.
Don’t be fooled. This 17% increase in the sales tax will generate much more revenue than is arguably needed to repair the infrastructure that was neglected by conscious choices of county staff and commission. Over the last 5 years, the ad-valorem budget has grown 33%, yet Engineering and Public Works only saw a 3% growth. At the same time, the Sheriff’s budget grew by 28% and county employees saw 12% in across the board raises (3% / year for 4 years). These conscious choices indicate that those running our county and school system were willing to defer maintenance until a pitch could be made for a new source of revenue.
A bond issue could have funded the critical needs. Instead, they want a sales tax that will generate $2.7B over 10 years whether it is needed or not. Do not doubt that they will spend every penny.
1. A 17% increase in the sales tax is a net tax increase of $270M per year, with no offsets to property taxes.
2. It is regressive and will affect low income residents the hardest.
3. It is not subject to the scrutiny applied to the annual ad-valorem budget.
4. It creates an incentive to purchase outside the county (Both Broward and Martin are at 6%, many internet retailers do not collect sales tax).
5. It is not an “infrastructure maintenance tax” but includes many new capital projects.
6. Unlike an infrastructure bond that would raise just enough money for critical needs, this granular tax generates a specific amount of money, and low priority projects will have to be funded in order to spend it all. Like previous proposals, it is a grab-bag of projects, many of which would never be done without a “must spend” windfall.
7. Charter schools get nothing.
8. Many of the municipalities (PBG, Boca) didn’t want the money.
9. It comes on top of the largest ad-valorem tax haul at the county level in history, up 8.2% over last year and up 33% since 2012. If passed, the 2017 equivalent tax hike would be 18%.
10. Over the last 5 years, the county has consistently underfunded engineering and public works (+3%), while increasing the Sheriff’s budget by 28% and giving across the board raises to employees of 12% (3%/year for 4 years). When the overall ad-valorem budget increased by 33%, engineering saw a total of 3% in 5 years. This was a conscious choice.
Don’t be an enabler!
Patriot Ride for Trump – sign wave
The Trump campaign is in need of sign wavers for the Jupiter location at the corner of Indiantown Road and Jupiter Farms Rd. (Publix shopping ctr.) on Oct. 8th for only about an hour or so starting at 10:30am. These folks would be our greeters and cheerers. As the Patriot Veterans and Bikers arrive we would like to show them support for the support they are riding for Mr. Trump and the Connected Warriors.
Mast – Perkins CD18 Debate
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Sales Tax Referendum Gathering Steam
Rally at the Rails
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