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Wealth transfer progresses but beneficiaries face costs
Despite a lack of convincing justification, the city continues to spend billions of dollars on septic tank replacement, probably the greatest deliberate transfer of wealth Jacksonville has ever experienced. During recent years, the city embarked on an ambitious program to extend water and sewer lines into areas where homes currently depend on septic tanks and…
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The Horror! Florida Requires Voters to Prove They’re Citizens
They did it; it’s done. Yesterday the New York Times ran a whiny story headlined, “Florida Republicans Pass Bill Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote.” The funniest line: “The votes in both chambers were along strict partisan lines, with all Democrats against the measure.” Good thing we have a Republican super-majority here in the Sunshine State.…