Yes, they are. We only charge property tax for anybody moving down here from north of the Mason-Dixon line.
Thank God for small pleasures.
I get extremely tired of people whining how "discriminatory" the property tax system is. You want to save on property taxes in Florida? Don't move. You want to move to Florida and don't want to spend as much in taxes as the other guy who just moved to Florida? Buy a smaller house. Then don't move.
See, not difficult at all, is it?
In a perfect world Florida would have stayed pristine and not gotten crowded. Well, the world isn't perfect. I lived there for over 40 years and I despised the results of rampant growth. I owned my home for 27 years, so I really got the benefit of the ridiculous property tax system.
But none of that makes it right or fair. The idea of the amendment originally was to protect *everybody* from the puntative growth of property taxes. And to [hopefully] limit the growth of state government by limiting its revenue.
Enter the law of unintended consequences.
Your attitude is no different than that of those who want to tax the wealthy to get even. We'll fix those nasty, greedy rich people.
Everyone should pay the same taxes and they ALL should be a heck of a lot less. Screwing these people isn't helping you at all. It's just giving the state of Florida more money to piss away.