tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617306305300109486.post3136693885537657462..comments2023-10-09T09:36:09.763-06:00Comments on The SchwabBlog: Give and take at the legislatureRobert Schwabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791955037283426171noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617306305300109486.post-5326663589586567152009-04-09T09:35:00.000-06:002009-04-09T09:35:00.000-06:00Colorado political and social issues are a foreign...Colorado political and social issues are a foreign language for me.<BR/><BR/>One of the big issues in Florida right now is expansion of casino gambling on the Seminole Indian reservations. The proposed bill will create 45,000 jobs and $500,000 + per year in revenue for the state. It is a 'no brainer" for me. There must be a list of special interest that need to to step up to the "cash bar" for a drink from the holy grail of tax revenues. This is easy money with much of coming from out of state tourists. <BR/><BR/>The systemic value is unpredictable and questionable. The fact that many vacationed here in the past and have settled permanently is evident everywhere. I am one of those when the state had only 6 million residents. Last I heard we are approaching 30 million. The idea that many of these particular visitors may eventually reside here stimulates my imagination.<BR/><BR/>Even the occassional gambler tends to be a free spirit "libertarian" type individual. They gravitate away from outside influences in their life and enjoy freedom. Freedom from anyone telling them how to spend their money as they choose. They resist government intervention in their lives. Many are of an entrepreneurial nature and have acquired some wealth. Florida does not have an income tax and is ripe for new generation type enterprises. Unionization, card check or not, will never take the state over in my lifetime. The state already has many low cost healthare plans for indivuals. We don't need socialized medicine, community action groups, and educational mandates which have impaired students from achieving their goals.<BR/><BR/>When the social revolution gathers full steam the migration will accelerate. Homes are 1/2 to 1/3 the price of most places in the country.<BR/><BR/>The table is set and the Deep South" will rise again !!<BR/><BR/>One of the largest meat packing companies in the US, Lykes Brothers, constructing a sugar cane ethanol plant on a 20,000 acre plantation. This will be high octane Brazilian grade ethanol. These are the types of enterprises that disgusted entrepreneurs from the north might capitalize in Florida rather than windmills and electric cars which will not trnsport most round trip to work. Solar is ripe and I forsee it as a cottage industry. Nukes are being built as I write and the state is well on its way to energy independence. We also have a "balance budget amendment" curtailing excess state spending.<BR/><BR/>I sense a rebirthing of Florida upon passage of this bill. It will be a significant step towards liberation from the grip of the federal bureaucrats in DC.Grandpa Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586695504743945481noreply@blogger.com