Save Our Services

Coalition of workers, parents, renters, seniors, small businesses opposed to Amendment 3

Sponsored by Floridians for Shared Prosperity, 501(c)(4)

[Save Our Services @SOSFLNOON3]

Amendment 3 sounds like relief. It isn't.

It's a tax shift, not a tax cut.

Renters and business owners get nothing. Homeowners still get a school tax bill. Sheriffs, police, and firefighters are warning this puts public safety at risk. And "finding the money somewhere else" means higher taxes, new fees, or cuts to the services we all rely on.

Vote NO on Amendment 3 to stop this scam and tax shift that will raise our costs and cut our services.

[Holly Bullard @HollyBullardFL]

We all want cleaner water.

The Gov here is touting his investment in the St Lucie Estuary.

South Florida Water Management District, which oversees most of the estuary will lose millions of $ in St Lucie Co alone if #Amendment3 passes

[Save Our Services @SOSFLNOON3]

Opposition to Amendment 3 keeps growing.

Teachers, librarians, retirees, parents, faith leaders, public health advocates, civil rights groups, and labor organizations across Florida all agree: Amendment 3 is a scam that will raise our costs and cut the services we depend on.

When this many different communities are standing together against something, it's worth asking why.

Join us. Vote NO on Amendment 3.

[Save Our Services @SOSFLNOON3]

Sierra Club Florida warns Amendment 3 would gut local storm prep, sea walls, tree trimming, all of it, "leaving communities unprotected from the effects felt during the annual hurricane seasons."

Meanwhile Florida's emergency fund is already drained after hundreds of millions went to Alligator Alcatraz instead of storm prep.

We're already underprepared. Amendment 3 makes it worse.

[Mitch Perry @MitchPerry18]

Sierra Club Florida calls on voters to oppose Amendment 3 https://t.co/E6NTudraYz

[Save Our Services @SOSFLNOON3]

$5 billion taken from local programs and services in year one. $46 billion a year by 2030. And no plan to replace any of it.

Amendment 3 robs our local communities, cutting health care, public safety, disaster recovery, and programs that help kids, seniors, and veterans; or it means higher taxes for working families and seniors.

This isn't relief. It's a scam and a tax shift that will raise our costs or cut our services.

[NorthStarCapital @GoNorthStar_]

Senator @CarlosGSmith, Floridians need your voice on Amendment 3 because calling this an effort to “abolish property taxes” is deeply misleading.

Amendment 3 does not abolish property taxes. School property taxes remain. What it actually does is dramatically increase the homestead exemption for non-school taxes and reduce the assessment-growth cap on non-homestead properties. The official ballot summary itself says the exemption rises to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028. (Constitutional Initiatives)

The problem is that police, firefighters, 911, roads, infrastructure and other local obligations don’t disappear with the revenue.

Orange County estimates Amendment 3 alone would reduce its property-tax collections by approximately $165 million in 2027 and $275 million in 2028. There is no recurring state funding sufficient to offset the county’s projected long-term losses.

That isn’t genuine tax reform. It’s a potential tax shift.

Homeowners absolutely need relief, but Florida should reduce the underlying cost of government along with the taxes used to finance it. Otherwise, the cost can reappear through reduced services, fees, other revenue sources, or burdens placed on renters and businesses.

Orange County specifically warns that rental and commercial properties don’t receive the same benefit and that increased burdens could ultimately be passed to tenants through higher rents.

Please continue explaining this distinction to voters:

Floridians need property-tax reform—not a political promise that moves the cost somewhere else and leaves Floridians paying for it anyway.

I hope you’ll lead the fight for comprehensive reform that protects homeowners without shifting the burden onto renters, businesses and local communities.

[Holly Bullard @HollyBullardFL]

Amendment 3 cuts a ton a money for mosquito control. Most people don’t know that’s how we fund our mosquito control in Florida - mostly special taxing districts from property tax

[Holly Bullard @HollyBullardFL]

@SOSFLNOON3 Renters will suffer from higher rents bc their landlords/apartments will shift the increased taxes to THEM, but they’ll suffer from the new fees & sales taxes - meanwhile even National Realtor Assoc says it will spike home costs — Am 3 is BAD for RENTERS https://t.co/rAbB8mAfxx

[Unabashed K. Kenzie @UnabashedHermit]

its a trap people

[Jackson Peel @JaxPeel]

Florida’s mosquito control boards do a LOT of work we never know about to protect us from diseases like this.

One of the MANY consequences of amendment 3 would be defunding the local programs that monitor & fight diseases like Dengue, etc.

[Holly Bullard @HollyBullardFL]

Yes your property taxes go to pay for mosquito control. And yes, we have dengue fever lurking and spreading as we speak in Fl. And yes Amendment 3 cuts mosquito control directly, significantly. Not fear mongering, it’s the truth that voters deserve to hear.

[Save Our Services @SOSFLNOON3]

Read it here: https://t.co/QMqQ3wajYP

[Save Our Services @SOSFLNOON3]

"Cities and counties don't get to conjure money out of thin air. When property tax revenue drops, local governments have exactly two choices: cut services or raise money somewhere else. We already know which way that tends to go.

'Somewhere else' usually means higher rents passed down by landlords facing their own tax bills, new fees tacked onto water, sanitation, and permits, and special taxing districts that hit working families and seniors on fixed incomes hardest — people who don't have a high-priced lobbyist and don't get a seat at the table when these decisions are made."

- Former Florida Rep. Al Lawson cutting through the spin in his new @flcourier piece

[Stacey Awesome! 🐊 @enhanced_vibes]

Floridians, vote NO on Amendment 3!

[Save Our Services @SOSFLNOON3]

Winter Springs is a city, which means it levies its own property taxes. Counties don’t “control” municipal property taxes. Amendment 3 explicitly applies to both counties and municipalities.

And yes, it takes effect in 2027. That’s exactly why cities are planning for the revenue loss now instead of waiting until their budgets get hit.

[Save Our Services @SOSFLNOON3]

Let’s cut to the meat…

Right now, Winter Springs isn’t hiring police officers in anticipation of Amendment 3 crippling their budget.

Amendment 3 is bad for Winter Springs, bad for public safety, and bad for Florida.

[Save Our Services @SOSFLNOON3]

Broward County is projected to lose over $1 BILLION a year. That’s more than just commissioner raises.

Fort Lauderdale just completed the transformation of Huizenga Park, with the vast majority of that redevelopment paid for through property taxes. Those same revenues help fund first responders and other essential city services. Amendment 3 puts the services, public spaces and quality of life residents count on every day at risk.

https://t.co/GFonxV4uJY

[Save Our Services @SOSFLNOON3]

“If a stop sign is down, will Tallahassee have to come and fix it for us? If we have a pothole, will we have to call Tallahassee to get it repaired?”

We’re asking the same questions.

Amendment 3 could blow a massive hole in local budgets with no plan for how communities are supposed to keep basic services running.

Vote NO on Amendment 3.

[Save Our Services @SOSFLNOON3]

Read about it here: https://t.co/WTwb5augac

[Holly Bullard @HollyBullardFL]

The state has a projected $7B deficit in FY29
How will it “plugging any holes” when Amendment 3 will cost local communities $46 billion over 5 years?
Plug with what? There’s zero plan (and DeSantis won’t be here to actually have any say on what the state does!)