Thirteenth Judicial Circuit judge rules Hillsborough tax referendum to increase teacher pay will appear on November ballot

In a significant turn of events. A circuit judge has overturned the Hillsborough County Commission's decision to block a crucial millage referendum from appearing on the November ballot. We are very happy that the voters of Hillsborough County will get to decide the fate of this very important referendum. Commissioners expressed concern over the timing of the tax increase amid high inflation hoping to push it back to 2026.Some might argue that it's a waste of taxpayer dollars to go forward, but I'll leave that to another day.

Yes they think it's crucial that the "voters" get to decide whether property owners in Hillsborough County will foot the bill for more money to be paid to these grifting teachers who just last year received a special homestead exemption on their properties but that wasn't enough. Now they need more money in their paychecks to spend on the twelve weeks of paid vacation they get each year. And yes let's show pictures of the cute little students and make sure everyone knows it's really for them. The voters who do not own property will now get to decide this matter for all those who do.

Let's continue to ignore and bypass the Florida Legislature, and the County Commissioners, let's just do what the marijuana and light rail lobbies have been doing, keep having this kakistocracy of bumbling idiot voters deciding every issue that becomes law in Hillsborough County and in Florida once they vote for it, by continuing the "ballot initiative" fraud which removes every decision from the hands of our elected representatives and places it in front of every moron who walks the streets in Florida and has a drivers license allowing them to "vote".

Of course the judge of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit who made this sick decision is never identified by the media. And the head of the Hillsborough County Classroom Teachers Association is absolutely the most egregious monster pushing this scam onto struggling homeowners who already have had nothing but a decrease in county services including absentee law enforcement to look forward to, but now will have to pay this special interest group more money when most of us don't even have a child in the educational system to begin with and already 75 to 80 percent of a homeowner's property tax bill in Florida is ALREADY allocated to "education" and "school" expenses. How easy it is to vote to spend someone else's money!

Duval county went thru this in the recent past elections, they have a tendency to pass.

In Duval’s case it was a 1 mill property tax increase, the shocking thing is they allow non-property owners to vote on increasing property taxes on property owners, thinking it won’t affect them.

A couple of my observations, less than 2 people in 10 can tell you what a millage rate is and how much of a tax increase 1 mill would be, even property owners don’t know, renters know even less, falsely believing that property taxes don’t affect them.

The vast majority of property owners with mortgages pay their property taxes thru their mortgage payments, the mortgage holders collect property taxes monthly and forward the payments directly the government unit entitled to the money. Most mortgage holders have NO idea what their property taxes are because they never see a property tax bill.

I would estimate over 80% maybe even 90% of the public has no idea what their property taxes are and have no idea what a millage rate is and keeping these people clueless allows things like this voter initiative to pass.

Yeah, demOCraceee! I want your stuff. Oink. Oink.

If they lose, there will just be a special election with no publicity and the school’s emergency call system used to get “friendly” voters to show up.

At least, that’s what happens around here.

Public schooling is a menace and voting at public schools should be prohibited.

Seems to be a trend here in Fl. Nassau County had the same ref last year, 1mil. The school board had the audacity to base how much new money they would receive on a 2 YO total property assessment in a time of rapidly escalating home prices. The county tax assessor even posted an announcement in the paper that the 1 mil increase would bring in far more money than the ref suggested need. Of course the dopes and the “for the children crowd” carried the day.

When Duval County passed their property tax increase, I asked a couple of people about the property tax increase, I got the same answer from each person, “I live in an apartment complex, this tax increase won’t affect me”, when I explained the owner of the apartments would be paying a lot more in property taxes and guess what was going to happen to their rents to offset the property tax increase...the “I never thought about that” was the common response”.

We have gone full circle.

Until the states and the federal government took over education every community taxed themselves to provide for schools and teachers.

This meant that the local school board had control of who was hired and what was taught.

The state and federal government did not like that so they took over and we can see the results.

Now the teacher unions has pretty much sucked up all the money they can from the state and federal government they want to go back and tax the home owners again only now the parent will not have a say in who gets hired and what is taught.

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