Boomer2010

[💙Farm Lady Blue 💙 @FarmLadyFarm]

This is a Future President of the United States....

[🇺🇦Radio Free NAFO Jack’s House @FluteMagician]

1) LET THEM GET WHAT THEY VOTED FOR.
And⬇️

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

This is huge.

For months, I have been working to stop the construction of a massive 10,000-person ICE facility in Social Circle, Georgia.

We just learned DHS is cancelling it.

The power of the people is always more powerful than the people in power.

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 HUGE: Gov. Spanberger signs bill banning domestic abusers from owning firearms in Virginia.

[CathyNotToday2 🌿 @Cathy2NotToday]

For everyone in Florida cheering for the end of property taxes, Jeff Brandes asks 10 REALLY good questions:

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.

2. Is this a tax cut… or just a tax costume change?
Homesteaded homeowners may save money upfront.
But governments still need revenue.
So does the bill simply reappear through rent, insurance, utility bills, assessments, fees, and higher costs on businesses and apartments?
Taxes rarely disappear.
They usually come back wearing a different name tag.

3. Who pays the debt already backed by property taxes?
Florida communities have borrowed billions for roads, drainage, water systems, police stations, fire stations, and hurricane infrastructure.
Bond payments do not disappear because politicians change the math.

4. What exactly counts as a “core service”?
Police and fire are easy answers. After that, the politics begin.
Is drainage a core service in a hurricane state? Stormwater? Road maintenance? Permitting? Parks? Libraries? Transit? Homeless services? Constitutional officers?
The real fight will not be over taxes. It will be over who gets to decide what government is allowed to do.

5. Who actually controls your city budget after this?
If Tallahassee defines “core services,” spending limits, reimbursement formulas, allowable millage growth, and allowable revenue… then local government becomes government by permission slip.
Your city council may still hold meetings, but the real budget power moves to the Capitol.

6. What happens during the first recession?
Property taxes are stable.
Sales taxes and tourism revenues are not.
So what happens when the economy slows, tourism drops, state revenues fall, and demand for local services spikes at the same time?
A system designed only for boom years is not reform.
It is a fair-weather theory.

7. What funds the trust fund when Florida itself is projecting multi-billion-dollar deficits?
Sales taxes? Documentary stamps? Debt? New fees? “Future growth”?
Florida’s own long-range forecasts already project structural deficits beginning in fiscal year 2027-28.
So what is the durable funding source?
A trust fund without recurring revenue is not reform. It is delayed instability with a press release.

8. What happens to Florida’s special districts?
Florida already relies heavily on CDDs, special districts, MSTUs, infrastructure authorities, and assessment-based financing.
If cities and counties lose flexibility, does growth simply shift into more off-book financing structures and special assessments?
Taxpayers do not care which government entity sends the invoice. They care that the invoice still arrives.

9. Are we trying to solve a housing crisis entirely through the tax code?
Florida’s affordability crisis is not just taxes. It is missing starter homes, restrictive zoning, rising insurance, infrastructure costs, and years of making housing harder to build.
You cannot tax-cut your way out of a starter home shortage.

10. Does this proposal reduce the cost of government or simply change the collection mechanism?
Nothing in the proposal prevents governments from relying more heavily on utility fees, stormwater charges, mobility fees, special assessments, franchise fees, or special districts.

If the total cost to taxpayers remains roughly the same, this is not necessarily smaller government. It is simply a different billing system.
Bonus question: Where is the sunset clause?

This proposal would fundamentally restructure local government finance in the third-largest state in America.

So where is the mandatory five-year review?
Measure homeowner savings, renter impacts, debt stress, infrastructure quality, public safety, and unintended consequences.

✅Big reforms need an exit ramp if the theory fails.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning move, France’s leader Emmanuel Macron just announced he will not allow Donald Trump to remove sanctions on Iran until there is satisfactory agreement on ending Iran’s nuclear program. This is how you check Trump’s insanity.

[Covie @covie_93]

A drunk former Fox & Friends weekend co-host is blocking the promotions of qualified women and Black people in the military.

It's sick

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Absolutely. I’ll lead the charge

[Abigail Miller @Abigail_M2050]

Rick Scott oversaw the largest Medicare FRAUD in U.S. history. The company settled for $1.7 billion. Rick walked away with $9.8 million & retained 10 million in shares worth over $350 million. Yet, you Republicans elected him Governor & Senator of FL. 😡

[Janice in Jacksonville @janicebilly]

FL ranks near the bottom nationally for SAT scores, consistently placing between 45th - 47th. The average score hovers around 948 to 970 out of 1600.FL is not a poor state but yet our public education system is being starved by the policies of our governor @GovRonDeSantis

[OG AG @FearAtmos]

@Angry_Staffer

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Holy shit this is bad.

Strait of Hormuz = free transit for 60 days, after that it’s up to Iran and Oman

Nothing on missiles.

All Iranian sanctions removed.

$300 billion to Iran on top of releasing all frozen funds.

We didn’t win a single point. Holy shit.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Student debt relief? “Too expensive.”
Universal healthcare? “Too expensive.”
Housing the homeless? “Too expensive.”
Trump’s Iran deal $300 BILLION? "Fuck yeah!"
They always find the money. Just never for you.

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

Is Trump corrupt, incompetent, or just plain stupid?

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

@JessicaTarlov Meanwhile... don't forget, Paxton was impeached by a GOP led Texas House.

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[#TuckFrump @realTuckFrumper]

Catholic church had been alerted to Texas priest’s sexual predation for years – but dawdled before acting #TheGuardian https://t.co/pbanV3wDvH