Posted on 06/03/2026 5:26:23 PM PDT by 4Runner
TALLAHASSEE — In less than 24 hours, Florida lawmakers questioned, debated and added to the November ballot what could become the most sweeping restructuring of the state’s tax system — and city and county governments — in a generation.
Now it’s up to voters.
Legislators voted largely along party lines Tuesday to approve a constitutional amendment proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that would raise the state’s homestead exemption to $250,000. It will save millions of Floridians thousands of dollars on their property taxes in 2028, if voters approve it in November.
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This is a constitutional amendment it has to go before the voters.
Go ahead make your stupid excuses. Everything in this state of any import is put to the room-temperature IQ moronic voters (which includes you) by these imbecilic overpaid worthless representatives.
In its present form it is not a plan, just a mere idea.
A real plan would have some acknowledgment of the consequences of the idea and would legislate how the revenue loss of property taxes will be made up for in some other way. But, they can’t, because they want to get away without imposing some state tax somewhere and they can’t dictate localities raise any particular local tax.
So they have legislated an idea and if passed the financial disruption will be felt all across the state and in my view begin to cost the GOP votes; as the headaches will fall equally on local GOP officials not just local Dim officials.
If Desantis can veto the bill he should, proclaiming the idea is only half-baked so far.
You can always move!
Remember that one year we had 16 amendments to vote on? That was nuts! I’m voting no to this. I don’t believe for a minute they’re not gonna raise tolls, sales tax. Heck my deep red county wanted to raise the gas tax five cents last year but decided to postpone it. There’s no way they aren’t gonna go and find other ways to get that money from the revenue loss. And God help us if a Democrat ever gets in. The first thing they’ll do is a state tax and other crap. The only good news is they have to get 60% threshold, which is pretty difficult to do overall.
You’re probably an idiot that thinks you’re going to not pay a single dime on property taxes. Sorry to burst your bubble. You might save 1000 bucks a year. All the other taxes are kept, and you still have to still have the other side of the property taxes, which includes the emergency services and the trash which equals to 795 at the moment. All they are doing is taking the property tax portion of the overall tax out the rest we will continue to pay. It’s the same with the Social Security. Social Security is tax-free. What a bunch of crap that was and still people say it lotta naïve people in this country.
Property tax is a cruel tax on retired folks with fixed income. Many are forced to sell or abandon homes they love.
A better tax would be consumption tax. As a senior myself, I can control my discretionary spending but have no control over property tax which funds education for kids. 99% of seniors do not have any kids in school. Very unfair tax.
“If Desantis can veto the bill he should, proclaiming the idea is only half-baked so far.”
ROTFLMAO! DeSantis ‘presented’ it to the legislature.
Florida has a surplus and rainy day fund which DeSantis will use.
It also reins in county spending.
Obviously you are not cognizant of the facts or the math. Best you stay in New Jersey.
New Jersey I’d running a deficit.
The answer is for those 60 and over to be exempt from property taxes or at least delay collection until the house is sold or the owners pass away to be sold on the market.
Lots of seniors retire to a place they didn't live in before and get the benefits of the priors. All those priors paid and sacrificed for that area. People should show up to the finish line and not pay? Why reward transplants instead of natives and people who have blood in the cemeteries.
“Florida has a surplus and rainy day fund which DeSantis will use.”
It will drain the “rainy day” fund but by then Desantis will be out of office.
“It also reins in county spending.”
No. It only dictates a state mandated reduction of property taxes. Localities along with counties will institute other taxes and fees to make up the loss of property taxes.
Property taxes are up because property taxes are based on property values and demand from buyers moving to Florida is raising property values.
You have that much information on my situation hotshot?
So you will get what you asked for. Localities will raise any sales tax they have and localities without a sales tax will institute one; and when they do let’s not hear any wails of “their raising our taxes”. No. Voting for this amendment will raise taxes - beyond property taxes.
“No. It only dictates a state mandated reduction of property taxes. “
As I said before, you don’t know what you are talking about.
You have no idea what is going on in Florida.
I’m as far from an idiot as you will ever find. Don’t tempt me to rub your impercipient face in it.
I don’t have any bubbles to burst you arrogant POS.
You show you only think of your own self interest.
You don’t mind a sales tax because (a) you’ve acquired many things in earlier years which you no longer have to buy or replace, so (b) a sales tax only hits what you spend on things you consume.
But, on working people, and particularly lower income working people, a sales tax is a regressive tax because a higher percentage of their earnings has to go to things they must acquire or consume. That has been proven over and over again.
No. You and the now “populist” Florida legislators have a a half-baked idea that is in totality not well planned. Wait till the politics in Florida is scrambled trying to makeup for the revenue changes wrought by the half-baked plan.
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