"Dismay" would, of course, NEVER be reported in a headline accompanying any action by the Democrats. [John Belushi voice] "Nooooo-oooo..."
MSM routine media bias ping...
“The cost of the package...”
Cost? Cost!...bs alert....
Good, my man Rush going to get a tax break too !
I just read the details.
Seven percent rollback this year.
In January the decision to keep SOH (Save Our Homes) or the super homestead exemption will be on the ballot.
If the superexemption wins, then you can still opt to keep SOH if you choose, as long as you live in your present home. Once you sell, the super exemption would apply to your new home. If you opt to change your SOH to the super exemption (you can change but you can’t change back once you’ve made the decision) you can probably save some money in the beginning, but if inflation drives up the price of houses again, keeping the SOH might benefit you more, in the long run.
Since we’ve lived in our home for a long time, and the cap is at 200,000 for the main superexemption, I think we’ll be better off to keep SOH because the superexemption won’t save us that much. But if we decide to move, for whatever reason, it will be give us a better break on our new purchase, compared to the old system.
I don’t want to fund dog parks, old folks centers, new Police headquarters, New annexes for big gov. We have so many cops running around it is hard to get a donut at Dunkin Donuts.
Enough spending. Enough taxes enough trying to make every little berg here in Florida look like a big city venture
all paid for through ultra high property taxes.
Seems to me that the police are revenue generators. 99% of the time they are just ticketing people for piddling offenses.
No offense to cops.
MSM bias ping...
“Even so, many local governments that levy property taxes said it would ravage their budgets, potentially forcing layoffs of police officers and firefighters and deep cuts to public schools. Some counties and cities have raised the possibility of a legal challenge.”
Complete BS, the local budgets are so bloated with waste.
I love how it is always the essential services that will have to be cut not the Arts Commission, social services, cars for commissioners etc.
What irks me is that there’s been a huge run up of property values over the last few years. They are collecting substantially more revenue due to that. All they did was spend it... And then complain they’re going to have to lay off essential services if there’s any cut... And even with those “cuts” they’ll be collecting more than they did a few years ago.
Screw’em.
Just out of curiosity, what would the Florida real property tax be on a single family house valued at $450,000?
Please, cut my taxes.
The question is, is the entire article nothing but bald, in your face, lies, or are they really, this dehydrated, bone crushingly stupid?
Florida lawmakers cannot impose a tax, they must come to us and ask through a vote to change the Constitution,, if we want one.
This is not Mother Russia - or New Jersey - this is Florida.
For that matter, even this reduction will have to be so voted on. - By us. - a concept that the NYT is obviously completely unaware of.
Damn! Lowering my taxes? I’m dismayed! /sarcasm
Democrats (meaning Socialists) are always dismayed by tax cuts, or less government, or more freedom.
Page 4, paragraph 3 in "How to Keep Taxes High by Scaring the Voters for Dummies". Otherwise know as the Liberal Bible.
Notice how they never threaten to layoff any non essential personel? Like maybe someone in the parks department. Or eliminate that grant to Planned Parenthood, or the planned city park for dogs, or any of the other pet projects of the local bluebloods?
The list of stuff that is untouchable is virtually endless, the first things that must go are always police, fire & ambulance. Hillsborough County Florida used this technique quite successfully to get a sales tax increase to fund goodies for the Tampa Bay Bucs.
The canned response by public "servants" everywhere. Threaten to cut essential services, as if there were no garbage anywhere else.
Toga party?
Precisely. The NYT knows no shame. Thing is, they’ve blown their cover so many times they may as well put on black face. It’s a minstrel show with snake oil sponsors.