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Has FAC looked into contacting a tax law attorney. DeSantis signed the homeless bill in Miami and he championed its way of doing business. The city is contracted by the https://www.homelesstrust.org/homeless-trust/about-us/home.page. The homeless trust gets its funding from a 1 percent sales tax on sales in the Miami area. Registrants are barred from the homeless trust resources. There has got to be some statute that the government cannot use its own citizens funds against that citizen. If I’m being taxed, I should be allowed to use the tax item that I’m being taxed on right. How can a registrant in Miami not have standing to sue when they are barred from using a service that the government taxes them on. Then we have it straight from the source https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2024/03/20/florida-law-desantis-homeless-camps-public-sleeping Ron Book doesn’t plan on any camps being built in the Miami Beach area. How is that not strategic banishment?
With the local communities being on the hook for these homeless camps maybe a Tax lawyer might be a way to attack it. So a local sales tax props up the homeless camps, but registrants cannot use a services of the camps, and that model may spread to other cities but registrants are barred from the model that they use in Miami so maybe we can jump ahead of the curve since more than likely counties will use a local sales tax to fund the camps however, registrants may be barred from using the services of the camps. Is there anything illegal about using And denying a local tax source funds from a citizen them bar them from that service in Florida? Federal? It would be pretty funny to see Ron Book and his organization hand FAC a check for the denying services to taxpaying citizens.
Does Miami Homeless Trust bar registrants from accessing its resources? Or is that more a function of Miami-Dade’s SORR ordinance?
I assumed Miami Homeless Trust was the only homeless service with a dedicated sales tax as its funding source. Are we saying there are other such homeless trusts here in FL? Would we discourage them from being funded by tax revenue?
Does the new law signed by DeSantis require municipalities to provide any services to homeless persons? Or does it mostly just lay out what they can not do?
Are we really willing to accept 1% off of our sales taxes, in exchange for continued denial of services to homeless registrants? Because that seems to me to be the final outcome of a successful challenge as Eugene describes it. Better, I think, to fight for more equitable homeless resource access regardless of who is paying the tax.
And that’s even if we have a case. Many people pay taxes for services they can’t access. FL does not, for example, exempt elderly homeowners from the school tax. Do we know of any successful challenges to the contrary?
Tax laws, hard to look up I spent a better part of yesterday, trying to find anything to use as an anchoring of a court case to see if we even had a basis to maybe sue under discrimination of a state sanction tax excluding us from being provided by goods and services. But it’s hard to find any court cases where people are facing the kind of discrimination we are in this.
I think the school tax is different because you could have a kid at one time so that service you could need you could have had a fire. Therefore, you should have a tax with the money goes to the fire department however, we could become homeless, but we cannot access the services that are available for the homeless I think they’re in lies the difference between the school tax being applied to older people who at one time chose to have children or not, and the school was there to provide services for them versus our situation. Also, the school continues to provide a service that the community uses that doesn’t exclude anybody for who the service is provided for.
Loss in Illinois https://ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net/antilles-resources/resources/862957b0-57a5-4485-9ac3-be91f70be527/Kopf%20v.%20Kelly,%202024%20IL%20127464.pdf
You know we all talk about these sex sting operations, the probation, incarceration and other ordeals that many go thru but is it the way that seems right. I mean to trap, force, pressure, entice, or persuade another into coming down to meet this person that basically turns out, ( in truth) to be a police officer. That’s not really justice or fair play of any type. Its more of a choke hold of bondage.
Where is the Christian morality in this? Sure using the sword in vain the right way to protect and serve is good. So were does reasoning come into play in all this or not the God Given Commandants not at play today. Well believe it or not they are at play yet we are all carnal and true justice is like a plea deal of passing the buck. Are we all upset…. I would say all of us are.
I’ve always believed that the lifetime sex offender registry (especially Florida’s) was a implementation for encampments in a futuristic endeavor/agenda of our world.this may be the next step. Whether one calls it the New World Order or something else, they have slowly planned/tested how to control/monitor individuals in mass. So sad that the so- called justice (claimed to protect) had come as an angel of light because many who see with spiritual eyes know that the enemy typical disguises as such light.
Whenever the government has to give money as an incentive to implement laws, one should always question why would they have to if a good idea or take away rights of counties within a state to reinforcing it. Pray that people awaken to the truth of what they aren’t able to see but to what is happening right before their America’s eyes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/desantis-signs-bill-banning-homeless-people-from-sleeping-in-parks-public-spaces/ar-BB1keLga
https://www.clickorlando.com/getting-results/2023/11/01/career-criminal-unit-makes-sure-volusia-sex-predators-offenders-follow-the-rules/
This article buttons down the vast requirements of control. If the media repeatedly televises a specific matter, one can bet it’s agenda driven.
Thanks, ‘just sayin’’’, for the article.
So sheriff Judd big bust in Florida 16 registrants were arrested however looking at what most were arrested for it just petty stuff. https://westorlandonews.com/detectives-charge-central-florida-registered-sexual-offenders-and-predators/
Although “petty”.. theses arrests were mostly for vehicle or liscense violations.. could have been prevented…… been on registry since 1998.. refuse to allow myself to give the state that opportunity to arrest me..
I am so glad I do not live in one of the Florida counties whose Sheriff is Hell bent on looking for issues that do not exist just to re-arrest someone on the registry. That is why I moved over 20 years ago from the county I lived in. I was getting 3 to 4 visits a day from city police, Sheriff’s office, even once from the FDLE agents.
Meanwhile, people are getting robbed, car jacked, kidnapped and old people having their home deeds stolen and their houses taken by crooks, yet law enforcement does nothing but go after the easy pickings and low hanging fruit.
Are Volusia deputies the real predators? This article gives insight into their intentions.
https://www.clickorlando.com/getting-results/2023/11/01/career-criminal-unit-makes-sure-volusia-sex-predators-offenders-follow-the-rules/
Louisiana bill: any person convicted of a sex offense shall be subject to a vasectomy.
https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346582
Okay that sounds completely unconstitutional. Cruel and unusual punishment. Second, what about someone who committed a felony that has already had a vasectomy? Third, what about the occasional female that ends up on the registry? How is this bill even logical?
Would be very interesting if the person is a woman
Just like the Bible intended, right?