WTFlorida

Salty Native 🐊 Smart-ass Xennial 🚀 Let Us Alone Floridian ☀️
Mom, Wife, Sister, Bestie..and all the other 46,XX titles

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

I’ve owed my FL home for 20 years. I’ll save just $532 a year and I’m still a supporter of this plan!
Because taxation (when used irresponsibly) is theft. And our tax dollars have been used irresponsibly.
Are the roads better? No
Does the FD show up sooner? No
Is my tap water safer? No.
Are the waterways Cleaner? Definitely no.

[Kyle Lamb @kylamb8]

@Susannah_Bryan Homeowners will benefit from $3,000 more in their pockets each year than cities will suffer from losing these ‘millions.’

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@RealFrankFromFL @ByronDonalds @JayCollinsFL

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@FLVoiceNews @ByronDonalds Thanks, but I’ll pick who I’m voting for and I’m voting for @JayCollinsFL in our August Primary.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@FLVoiceNews @ByronDonalds Right. Because government is super good at making decisions for individuals. 🙄

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@LondonRiverSFW Bless your heart. Delete this.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

When I was a kid in the 80’s we lived on Acapulco Dr. (off Pembroke Pines Blvd.) Plane crashes @ Perry Airport were so common my mom made a bumper sticker “I break for planes” and sold them at the corner store (where they made The Best cafe con leche.) We attended Pembroke Rd Baptist Church with the Perry Family. 😂😂😂 Good times.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

I’m with you. But my reasons are purely selfish. I want to keep acquiring wealth, I want my children to own homes and acquire wealth. I want to spend and share my money how and with whom I choose.
Bottom line: if the government hadn’t done such a terrible job spending our tax dollars we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@TB_Times 5.5 mil to dispel all the B.S. is well worth the money.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

I support the DeSantis plan.
I’m a small biz owner that leases our facility. I’m a FL homeowner. I also own undeveloped land in FL and don’t want to see the any of my taxes raised. (It’s why I mentioned it in the round table he held last week here in Brevard.)
We need to seriously talk about the pork in our local budgets.
That’s what needs to go.
This plan will force a cut in the pork. We will also need flexibility in where funds have to be allocated.
Essentials first.
Everything else second.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@JeffreyBrandes Plenty of communities across America put out fires with volunteer fire departments.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@JeffreyBrandes Plenty of communities across America put out fires with volunteer fire departments.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

Can we stop focusing on the essential services that will be funded and start talking about all the non-essential programs that shouldn’t be funded with our taxes?

Too many of these non-essential things are zombies. They were passed decades ago by people we don’t vote for and have been kept alive by cleaver wording on a ballot.

The zombie programs need to go.

[Jeff Brandes @JeffreyBrandes]

Everyone is focused on property taxes. Almost nobody is talking about non-ad valorem assessments.

Let’s say a city loses millions from a new homestead exemption. It can still create or increase a fire assessment, a stormwater assessment, a road maintenance assessment, or a public safety assessment. The charge still shows up on your tax bill. It just has a different label.

Government doesn’t magically need less money because we renamed the revenue source.

If we’re going to abolish or dramatically reduce property taxes, what prevents local governments from replacing part of that revenue with assessments? That’s not an argument against tax relief. It’s a question every voter deserves answered before we start swinging the wrecking ball.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@Karla1953 @JackLinFLL This morning’s launch was way louder!

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@JackLinFLL Tried to get a shot for you. 😎 Couldn’t see it. But it’s still rumbling. (I’m exactly 12 miles due west) it was super stormy afternoon and th cloud cover is still here.

[Ryan Caton @dpoddolphinpro]

ANOMALY: @BlueOrigin have suffered a CATASTROPHIC EXPLOSION AT LAUNCH COMPLEX-36

📷 @NASASpaceflight/@JerryPikePhoto

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

“But guys, how will we fund schools and safety and roads and stuff if the DeSantis property tax plan is passed ?!?”
This is a very stupid question.

THE ONLY things our taxes should fund are SCHOOLS and SAFETY and infrastructure.

Our government has gotten hammer-drunk on our taxes and it’s way past time they sober up.

While we were working to pay our taxes, our representatives funded ridiculous projects, bought things they don’t need and we don’t want, ran deficits, all while letting the things that actually do matter decay…and they come back year after year asking for more.
It has to stop.
We can stop it this November.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@JackLinFLL I’ll see your Pompano, and raise you any stretch of US1 thru Brevard County. (We have a LOT of US1) 😂

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@DividendBreeder With the all the non-homestead taxes collected by counties and cities that are Only supposed to pay for these things and these things only.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

The Florida Project think tank guy arguing increased homestead exemptions is unconstitutional because it’ll create “1st and 2nd class citizens” is my personal fav right now. 😂
These people are clowns.
Bottom line: If this passes, and I hope it does, The taxpayer-funded gravy-trains going to non-profits and special interests will dry up and they’re terrified they’ll have to find real jobs that sell actual goods and services in an actual free market.

[WTFlorida @WTFloridaFree]

@JeffreyBrandes Because homestead exemptions don’t create “1st or 2nd class citizens.” The homestead exemption is already in place. This is a simply an increase the amount that is exempt.