The New York Stock Exchange announced a collaboration with digital asset company Securitize to help create tokenized versions of traditional financial securities https://t.co/XFQAdnnvp3
The Florida House just voted 80 to 30 to eliminate property taxes for homeowners.
That’s one of the boldest tax moves any state has attempted.
The Florida House Speaker called it "the most aggressive property tax legislation ever passed by a legislative chamber in the history of the United States."
That's not a small claim.
And it didn't come out of nowhere.
Florida homeowners have been getting crushed.
Home values across the state have exploded over the last five years.
A house worth $250,000 in 2019 is assessed at $450,000 today in many counties.
The tax bill followed that number straight up.
For retirees and long term homeowners on fixed incomes, that increase hasn't been gradual.
It's been brutal.
Here's what the proposal actually does.
It gradually increases the homestead exemption by $100,000 annually for ten years, reaching complete elimination of non school property taxes by 2037.
Law enforcement and public safety budgets are constitutionally protected, so they can't be touched.
For a homeowner with a $400,000 property, that's potentially $4,000 to $6,000 back in their pocket every single year.
For retirees who did everything right and are now watching inflation and rising taxes eat through their fixed income, that number is SIGNIFICANT.
Governor DeSantis has been pushing this hard.
He's called property taxes "an oppressive and ineffective form of taxation," arguing that as long as they exist, homeowners are effectively paying rent to the government in perpetuity.
But here's the part nobody's celebrating yet.
Florida collects roughly $14.1 billion annually from the homestead property taxes this proposal would eliminate.
That money currently funds fire departments, police, EMS, road maintenance, school districts, and county infrastructure across the entire state.
Nobody has clearly answered where that money comes from instead.
And there's a twist most people aren't talking about at all.
Economists project that eliminating property taxes could actually INCREASE home values by making ownership significantly cheaper to hold long term.
Which sounds great until you realize that higher home values mean even less affordability for first time buyers who are already completely locked out of this market.
Existing homeowners win.
First time buyers might get squeezed even harder.
There's also a long road ahead before any of this matters.
This still needs Senate approval, which hasn't moved yet.
Then it needs to survive the full legislative session.
Then 60% voter support in a statewide referendum to pass as a constitutional amendment.
That's an incredibly high bar and a lot of places for this to stall, get watered down, or die entirely.
Florida just lit the match.
Whether it starts a revolution or burns the house down is still very much to be determined.
Tesla was allowed to begin offering autonomous rideshare service in Arizona, clearing the way for its nascent robotaxi business to expand to a new state https://t.co/8bqS3ikCtj
Rap star Nicki Minaj made an appearance at the US mission to the United Nations on Tuesday to echo President Donald Trump’s claim that Nigeria is failing to prevent the persecution of Christians. Experts argue the truth is more complicated https://t.co/jpIZxaMcm3
I’ve said this before - the crypto industry will achieve our goals (and beyond), IF WE WORK TOGETHER. Appreciate the crypto President @realDonaldTrump’s vision of a govt digital asset reserve representative of the industry.
Maximalism is the enemy of the industry’s progress. Glad to see POTUS recognizing we live in a multichain world and that we’re finally moving past Bill Hinman and the Biden administration's SEC’s very broken thinking.
I will certainly continue to champion this while in Washington at the end of this week.
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That would take the #Bitcoin price to $213,000 by June if this repeated.
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