Not all taxes are necessarily bad ones
Eric Ernst
Sarasota Herald Tribune
9/22/2006
No one likes taxes. But if there were ever a good tax, it's on the ballot in Charlotte County in November.
It would amount to $32 a year for the owner of a $185,000 home (with homestead exemption), and the money would be used to buy environmentally sensitive land.
The county did not want to compile a list of prospective properties for fear that owners would jack up prices or speculators would swoop in to grab the land.