Blast from the past.
When we dissolved the Disney-controlled local government Reedy Creek, legacy media (who had previously been harsh critics of Disney’s special deal) claimed it was going to lead to massive tax hikes.
Never happened.
Narrative pushers gonna narrative.
On a 30-9 vote the @FLSenate has placed a property tax phase out plan on the November ballot.
Highlights:
1st year- $150K homestead exemption
2nd year- $250K exemption
Beyond- Legislature will set schedule to full elimination.
Some changes:
Legislature pulled school property tax out of the equation and removed the state trust fund @GovRonDeSantis has pitched to backfill local budgets.
House approved the measure earlier on a 75-26 vote.
@ActionNewsJax
🚨 BREAKING: FLORIDA LEGISLATURE FORMALLY APPROVES ABOLISHING PROPERTY TAXES for most primary homeowners statewide
Both chambers RESOUNDINGLY pass Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposal, SENDING IT TO VOTERS for approval this November
LET’S GO!!! ☀️👏🏻
Needs 60% of voters this fall.
Florida is MAKING HISTORY!
The homestead exemption will surge up to $250K to start, and a schedule will set its elimination in the future
However, MOST homeowners will already get effective 0 taxes under the proposal.
DO IT NATIONWIDE!
Florida’s Constitution prohibits an income tax.
Moreover, property tax revenue is local, not state, and has nearly doubled in the past seven years.
Exempting homestead properties from tax would return local property tax revenue to the levels of a few years ago.
Taxing and spending less is a good thing.
The Florida budget for next fiscal year (after line-item vetoes) will spend less than in the current fiscal year.
The budget for the current fiscal year spends less than the budget from the previous year, and that previous year’s budget spends less than the year before.
Four straight years of spending reductions!
A tiny bee just did what chemotherapy couldn't.
Scientists in Australia discovered that honeybee venom can wipe out 100% of aggressive breast cancer cells in under 60 minutes.
And the healthy cells around them? Barely touched.
The breakthrough came from Dr. Ciara Duffy and her team at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, working alongside the University of Western Australia.
They tested venom drawn from 312 honeybees and bumblebees across Australia, Ireland, and England.
The target: triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer. Two of the deadliest, most stubborn forms of the disease.
The weapon: melittin. The same tiny peptide that makes a bee sting burn.
At one specific dose, melittin tore through cancer cell membranes completely within an hour. Within just 20 minutes, it shut down the chemical signals cancer cells need to grow and multiply.
Bumblebee venom, which lacks melittin, did nothing. Zero effect, even at high concentrations.
Scientists then recreated melittin synthetically in the lab and got almost identical results, meaning no bees need to be harmed to develop the therapy.
Published in the peer-reviewed journal npj Precision Oncology, the findings are still early-stage. Human trials haven't happened yet.
But one thing is clear. Nature has been hiding answers in plain sight all along, sometimes inside the smallest creatures on Earth.
Source: Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research / npj Precision Oncology (Dr. Ciara Duffy et al.)