๐งตTen questions Florida should answer before detonating the property tax system:
1. If this is real tax reform, what replaces it?
Florida built local government around property taxes because Florida has no state income tax.
You can dislike the system, but you cannot remove the load-bearing wall without explaining what keeps the roof from collapsing afterward.
NEW: I sat down with Cuba's top diplomat in the US during an eventful 24 hours for the island.
Lianys Torres Rivera discussed everything from the fuel crisis, how they are preparing for a potential invasion, and pressures underlying stalled negotiations.
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Unfortunately, there's no mechanism to ensure these savings are actually passed on to consumers because gas station managers still set their own prices.
The disappearing norms have left leaders with fewer tools to run the Congress effectively.
These arenโt formal rules of House & Senate, but instead the unwritten guide rails of how to act.
โThere are no rules anymore.โ
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BREAKING: President Trump has announced that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is being replaced by Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin. https://t.co/YJrW6BfFDY
Curious to see what effect Maduro's ouster may have on the thousands of Venezuelan asylum cases pending in the US.
Too early to tell, but administration may eventually cite this as "changed circumstances" to deny most Venezuelan political asylums claims.
Breaking: The U.S. has carried out a โlarge scale strikeโ on Venezuela, capturing President Nicolรกs Maduro and flying him out of the country, President Donald Trump said in a social media post early Saturday.
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Breaking News: President Trump said that the U.S. captured Nicolรกs Maduro, the Venezuelan leader, and that he is being flown out of the country. Follow live updates. https://t.co/4dVueHlPuX
@JacobAShell Spanish Law of the Indies required colonial settlements be built away from the coast if possible to make them more defensible. You see its impacts all over the Americas.
@JacobRubashkin@mattyglesias Florida is also much more politcally complicated than Texas. Complexity adds cost. Texas may be bigger, but competing and winning in FL probably more expensive.