What is unsaid in Florida and other states trying to lower or eliminate property taxes is that sales taxes, including taxes paid at grocery stores, must jump to double digits to make up the shortfall. Of course, sales taxes are regressive, hitting harder those in lower income brackets. Further, in hard times touch revenue falls faster when consumers slow or stop their spending. The result is that tax revenue swings wildly, causing constant scrambling by public officials trying to balance their budgets while delivering services such as public safety and public education. Good times. Watch what happens in Florida and use it as a lesson for your state ...
#13 | Posted by catdog at 2026-07-11 12:43 PM | Reply | Flag:
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Unsaid that sales taxes need to double? By who? How about government being more efficient, cutting fraud and stupid spending? This is something foreign to Democrats who want to increase spending with other people's money.
Is this the woman who said she was raped in the dressing room next to the cashier and then said she wasn't raped, and couldn't remember when it was and there were zero witnesses? Oh and she was trying to sell a book about it.