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Come to this most important meeting of the new year to fight
against Light Rail in Pinellas!
PSTA Headquarters
3201 Scherer Drive
St Petersburg, Florida
January 23 9am
At this upcoming meeting, we have learned that CEO Brad Miller
of PSTA will be asking the PSTA Board of Directors to vote
"thumbs up" to make a formal request to the Pinellas County
Commission to place the 1% sales tax referendum on the
ballot for 2014 for light rail. Sound the Bell!
This is the time to show up and voice your opposition to an
additional 1% sales tax in Pinellas to fund a light rail from
Clearwater to St Petersburg. If passed by the low information
voters, we will have an 8% sales tax, the highest in the state,
to fund a light rail system that a projected 3% will ride at
your expense.
All public transportation is subsidized to the tune of 75-80%.
Yes, the bus system you see around the county is subsidized 78%
( by us thru our property tax) and is operating on reserves
currently, and, projected to run out of reserves 2015, just 2
years from now. So the answer is to buy a train! Ad Valorem tax
collects $30 million, 1% would collect $130 million! They need
the tax referendum passed by the public to get this money!
The current bus system in Pinellas operates on $30 million from
our property taxes along with federal grants. They are going
broke due to mismanagement and guess what....Overspending!
Several salaries in the $150 K per year range!
Their solution is to get us all hyped about the great move to
install a light rail system! Wake up to the facts of light rail,
the over estimate of the usage and under estimate of the initial
construction costs plus the continuing operation and
unbelievable maintenance. All our baby as taxpayers!
Did your taxes just go up? Mine did because St Pete needs
money, the county needs money, the EMS needs more money and they
keep coming to us the property owners to get it.
Well, now another 1% sales tax is on the menu! This is a
boondoogle. Can you say Boon Doogle? Let PSTA face
bankruptcy or cut expenses now.
Under this major progressive "CEO" Brad Miller, he has gone on a
spending spree, hired more consultants and pr firms, Say No! By attending this meeting and helping us to voice opposition to this high risk project being brought to Pinellas by the Progressive Rail
Advocates: Ken Welch
Perhaps you have seen the recent articles in the Times about
citizen surveys now supporting using taxpayer money to fund
light rail! And the talk that bus ridership is up, up, up! Get
ready, they are warming up the propaganda machine and this ask
for the referendum by the PSTA to the now majority liberal
county commission is the next step.
From there they will spend our tax dollars telling us on TV and
print what a great idea this is and how much the people of
pinellas support it.
Folks, we are in the same battle here in Pinellas County as we
are in in D.C. They will bankrupt every one of us by expanding
government projects, redistributing our resources , creating
more union jobs and creating new bureaucracies.
You don't have to go to DC to see the problems, get in your car
and come to PSTA building on 34th St and Sherer Drive off of
Ulmerton. You can't miss it, it looks like the Taj Mahal.
Yes, this is negative cash flow at it's best and looking to us
to bail them out.
Come to this meeting prepared to fight back at this early stage.
And be prepared to sign up at the door for your 3 minutes to
speak, if you wish. We need to speak up on record.
You can get more talking points at
http://www.railtaxfacts.com/
We will have
No Tax For Tracks Signs for you.
Please forward to your pinellas county friends.
You can RSVP here:
http://www.meetup.com/S-Pinellas-9-12-Patriots/events/97137982/
Brought to you by S Pinellas 912. |
Brandes: Light rail in Pinellas is
a 19th century answer to a 21st century concern.
Governor Scott Vetoes H.B.865!!
No Tax Swap Double Talk for Pinellas County will be allowed to
raise our sales tax to 8%!
Send a BIG SHOUT OUT "THANK YOU GOV SCOTT"!!!
HB865 
click here:
rick.scott@eog.myflorida.com
HB865 has passed out of the Finance and Tax Committee against protest from residents of Pinellas County on February 15th. See the Video Discussion begins 3:30 minutes into video
HB865 has passed the House Floor Monday March 5th. See the Video Discussion starts 28 minutes into video.
Help kill the groundwork for Pinellas light rail and the 1% sales tax hike steaming down the track!
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