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Sen Mike Haridopolos isn’t happy with the property tax reduction amendment the state Taxation and Budget Reform Commission voted Monday to put on the state’s November ballot.
Haridopolos thinks the state Legislature wouldn’t be able to make up the school funding the amendment would eliminate—some $11 billion a year by 2011. Even though he’s a non-voting member of the commission, he says he’s going to try to convince them to revise the proposal.
That plan would eliminate the schools portion of property taxes, effectively slashing property tax bills by 25 percent. Lawmakers would have to make up the difference, using alternatives specified in the amendment.
The commission has yet to take its final vote on the proposal, but that’s been expected to be a formality.
The proposal was changed in last-minute compromises on the commission, and Haridopolos said members may not realize the amendment could trigger a sales tax hike of up to a 2.5 cents. He also says the full commission didn’t hear an analysis warning the proposal would cost jobs.
Haridopolos said he hopes the commission will “at least take a second look. They can still amend.”
this is an easy one...make up $4 billion with a pennny sales tax...so where do we find the other 6 to 7 billion?
Obviously new taxes...this is NOT a swap but a tax increase!
the TBRC clueless.
NO NO NO !! THEY NEED TO KEEP THAT AMENDMENT IN PLACE and not try to jigger in favor of the taxers. Many are in dire straits and many more are already banktupt. A sales tax is the most fair of all taxes to even out the load on the public instead of victimizing the few .
Senator Go to work you have a lot of work to do. It is time for you to represent the public.
I THINK THE SENATOR SHOULD GET OUT OF THE OFFICE SOME. TALK TO THE PEOPLE.
SENATOR DRIVE UP TO ANY TRAFFIC LIGHT IN ORLANDO DAYTONA OR ANY OTHER CITY AND JUST LOOK AT THE TAGS. THE TOURIST USE OUR INFATRUCTURE SO WHY NOT USE SALES TAX TO PAY. ALL THE PROPERTY TAX IS HIGH IN FLORIDA UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN IN YOUR HOME FOR 10 YEARS OR MORE.
This guy is being controlled by school special interest. He has no idea what is going on. Thank god he can not vote. However, we need to voted him out. He is not representing the people who voted him in and the people who he is trying to protect did not vote for him.
This guy has been ordered to try and turn the tide by the school lobbistes. Some of his friends have been working as school administrators for yrs making 6 figure incomes and doing very little. Give the poor people who make much less a break. this guy needs to know who voted him in. Not his frends.
This is ridiculous. With the windfall of money the government took, they hate to part with anything. The taxes grew faster than the government did. They need to be stopped. We can’t take it any more. Tell all the legislatures, if they continue to put their hands in our purses and make us all poor, we the people will vote them all all. Get rid of the special interests, that’s where they’ll get the money they say they need.
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Posted by Mary Drabik, Deerfield Beach, FL on 03/20 at 07:54 AM
Unbelievable! The Senate has consistently fought against any type of significant tax relief to first time home buyers.
The burden for school funding should not fall solely to the homeowner, who in the most part in the state is retired. The people who send their children to our public schools, including illegals, should bear the burden along with the homeowners.
If the Senate fights this, then in the next election we need to place our support behind those who are willing to give significant tax relief to the homeowners in the state of Florida!