(05-24-2023, 10:49 AM)mikesez Wrote: I'm not in Duval, but just sharing similar experience as an Orange County resident.  For government money, the revenue source matters.  If you're funding it out of property taxes, voters are most sensitive.  Gas taxes, voters are a little less sensitive, as long as you're not changing the rate.  Sales taxes, a little less, again as long as you dont change the rate.  Hotel taxes, heck, at that point the voters don't even care.  Change the rate all you want, the voters don't care.  I'm pretty sure most of the work on the Jacksonville stadium, to this point, has been funded with hotel taxes and lease payments by the team.  Let me know if I have that wrong.

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