Florida Voters Approve Massive Cut to Property Taxes
Opponents worry police, fire and emergency services will suffer: "State economists have projected that local governments will lose nearly $5 billion in the first year and nearly $12 billion a year once the exemption is fully phased in."
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Florida just voted to slash property taxes, putting funds for local services at risk. That could lead to higher home insurance rates down the line.[image or embed] -- Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) 11:00 AM · Nov 6, 2026
Florida just voted to slash property taxes, putting funds for local services at risk. That could lead to higher home insurance rates down the line.[image or embed]
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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-11-08 02:22 PM | Reply
lol anything but acknowledging the obvious-FL shouldn't be the world's largest trailer park. With the exception of enclaves where people can afford it, give it back to nature.
#2 | Posted by jpw at 2026-11-09 03:52 AM | Reply
Big mistake in terms of maintaining/developing municipal infrastructure.
#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-11-09 05:21 AM | Reply
Well, what do you expect from a culture of people who keep on electing, championing, people like Trump, who say that human caused global warming is a hoax. Stupid greedy people selling the future for lower taxes today. As water warms up, it expands, and thus Florida is losing coastline, and the process will accelerate.
#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-11-09 06:40 AM | Reply
Slashed the funds that pays your EMS workers, Your Police Officers, Your city workers, Your trash pickups, So many people are losing jobs over this, They voted to slash that based on a "concept of a plan", Now that you all have set them up to, do some crazy crap Just wait, They will get that money and more through another avenue, You just signed us up for even more taxes The governor has bankrupted some areas of this state, Blew the states emergency fund money on building Alligator Alcatraz banking on the orange one reimbursing him for that cost, Of course he did not, So he blew the states hurricane weather emergency fund, We were all praying prayers of gratitude that we didn't have hurricanes this year, However,Palm Bay just experience catastrophic flooding, Is anyone helping? Nope Is FEMA here? No Is the Governor here? No These people are like the ones in NC, They now have nothing and no help,
#5 | Posted by gypsydiane8177 at 2026-11-09 07:38 AM | Reply
#5 Didn't you know that under the GOP government only works for the people that deserve it?
If you have to ask if you deserve it, you don't.
Only people who can pay the $1,000,000 Mar a ------- admission fee deserve it.
#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-11-09 08:02 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
That's the next guys problem.
DeSanturd thinks he can become president and wants to have a debate point of cutting taxes in his cv.
#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-11-09 08:03 AM | Reply
DEsantis banned the teaching 0of black history in 1Florida scho7ols; sell7 that on the national stage RacistRon!
#8 | Posted by danni at 2026-11-09 08:18 AM | Reply
The passage of this amendment will have a number of predictable results: -Those middle income renter who can afford to do so will buy homes, instead of renting -renters will see their rents rise, since commercial property is exempt from the amendment, so taxing authorities will raise taxes on all manner of income-producing property -counties and municipalities with lower populations and lower aggregate household income will soon be unable to deliver the current level of public services--including storm response -the increase in assessment of second homes and condos will hit the maximum of 5% annually for the foreseeable future. All those Canadians who drove down from Toronto in 2007-9 to rescue the housing market in Lee and Collier counties will get spanked for as long as they continue t own their Florida homes -values of commercial property will stagnate, because of the ever-increasing property tax expense investors will experience -sales taxes will rise, from the current 6% minimum to perhaps double digits in some areas, so as to fund schools, roads and storm response -fees on every manner of road toll, fishing license or other governmental permit will go up starting in January -governmental entities, form municipalities to the State of Florida, will run out of money much faster than anyone predicts now
Having lived long enough in Okiehomie, I've seen what a low tax regime gets you: bad roads, bad schools and bad healthcare. All coming soon to Florida...
#9 | Posted by catdog at 2026-11-09 08:30 AM | Reply
While the forced defunding of police is obviously a good thing, the forced defunding of everything else isn't.
And they can't make it up with income tax, they don't have one.
#10 | Posted by DarkVader at 2026-11-09 08:35 AM | Reply
Where do they expect to make the revenue up? They don't have an income tax. They already bake the rate into the current exemption.
They'll just have to change the recipe a little. Folks with $1 million+ homes will get it handed to them.
It's nice to tell folks their property taxes are going down but these people consume services these taxes pay for. Roads, police, fire, etc.
sort of defies logic.
#11 | Posted by eberly at 2026-11-09 08:54 AM | Reply
Tax cutsRUS1 That is Republicans ONLY path to victory! They have no answers to questions about cuts to7 srvices like police, 7fire, parks, schools5; they consider th7ose things to be responsib7ilities for Democrats5;9 Republicans only work for their actual constituents; millionaires and billionaires. The "masses" don't matter exceppt for during7 elections which is when the divisive hate campaign kicks in to get all those "Good Christian voters" 0who seem to be OK with taking healthcare and food assistance away from the undeserving working poor.
#12 | Posted by danni at 2026-11-09 09:40 AM | Reply
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