As Florida lawmakers unveil new proposals aimed at reducing property taxes statewide, Publisher of Southeast Politics Janelle Irwin-Taylor joins to explain what the plans include, who stands to benefit, and how the changes could impact local budgets and homeowners.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And right now, let's bring in the publisher of Southeast Politics,
Janelle Irwin Taylor is back with us. You can find
all of her work and a whole lot more at
Southeast politics dot com and you can follow her on
x and Janelle Irwin fl So, Janelle, great to talk
to you again. And I want to go back to
late last week. You had Florida House Speaker Danny Perez.
He rolled out eight new property tax proposals and this
(00:24):
is something that Governor DeSantis has been pushing for property
tax relief. What did the House come up with?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Okay, So there's probably too much to fit into our
little tiny segment here, because there is a ton of information.
I think what the top lines that are most important
to consider here because things are going to change rapid
fire once all of this goes through the legislative process,
is that of those eight proposals, seven of them would
(00:53):
go on the twenty twenty six ballot for voters to
choose from. They all would reduce property taxes in one
way or another. None would affect property taxes that go
to schools. That eliminates the argument that reducing property taxes
would just do it our public school system so this
(01:14):
would maintain funding for public schools. Some would eliminate property
taxes for seniors. Some would increase the home set exemption
incrementally to help people save on property taxes. Some would
eliminate property taxes altogether. Over ten years, there's a whole
state of options to choose from, And the idea behind
(01:35):
that was to give voters the opportunity to pick ideas that,
you know, kind of fit what they thought would work
best for our state. What I see as potentially problematic
here is when you give voters so many choices, what
happens if like four of them passed right, three of
(01:56):
them though, Like does the most you know, does the
one with the biggest cut supersede all others?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
How does that even go into implementation? So I think
there's probably going to need to be some conversation about that.
You have to worry about voter confusion, maybe voter confusion
as the point, I think there's just there's a lot
that they're going to have to consider in the legislative session,
and these these proposals do have to go through the
legislative process and get super majority approval from the legislature
(02:23):
to be placed on the ballot, which is probably going
to happen considering we have a supermajority GOP majority and
on both chambers of the legislature. So that's kind of
like the top line bird's eye view, happy to dive deeper.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, so there are really three buckets. There are eliminations.
There are the eliminations of certain property taxes. You've got
the exemptions. There are more exemptions that they would potentially make,
and then there are some reforms. So it kind of
(02:56):
falls into those three categories. And then within those categories
there are other options. But like you said, uh, anything
impacting schools or police and fire funding is protected. But
they're going to have to simplify this, and I'm wondering
if they, you know, they have to realize that you
can't put you know, seven things eight things on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, it does allow them to really have robust conversations
during legislative session to hash all of that out. So
I think that's why I say, I think you're probably
going to see some changes and maybe some wheeling down
of this list through the legislative process. But you know,
from an opposition standpoint, because Democrats are going to be
a post to this it's a this is a huge
(03:37):
line of revenue for local governments. So in many ways,
this is going to be labeled as an attack on
home rule, you know, in a roundabout way, by reducing
the amount of revenue that cities are able to collect.
Of course, the GOP is of the mindset that's, you know,
that's a good thing that they need to you know,
tighten up their budgets anyways, so you know, let's just
(03:58):
get leaner. So you know, there's a lot of there's
a lot of arguments, but anybody opposed to this, they're
going to have an uphill battle right from the get
go because anytime you're presenting voters with an opportunity to
lower their costs, especially at a time when afford there's
an affordability crisis that's really hurting the residents of Florida.
You know, nobody is going to vote for the candidate
(04:21):
and their schools. You know, student government president Race who's
saying that they're going to reform classroom policy. They're going
to vote for the candidate who says free ice cream
sandwiches for yeah, well this is the free ice cream sandwich.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So and the fact that they're adding in hard right
from the start, schools and police and fire they're protected.
I think obviously that was a smart move by Republicans.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, and the police and fire thing not only does
it protect them, it bars they would bar local governments
from from reducing police and fire budgets. So it's kind
of of a without saying it out loud, it's it's
an it's a response to the defund the police movement basically,
(05:08):
So there's also that, but yeah, it's well, and sixty
five percent of Florida voters, according to a poll in
late September on support reducing our eliminating property taxes. So
that's more than the sixty percent threshold that Florida needs
to pass a constitutional amendment. So I mean it's the
cards are stacked in the GOP's favor on that, and
they're definitely stacked against anybody who opposes these measures.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, I think they just got to clean it up
by consolidating some of these proposals, like making it a
little bit simpler for everyone on the ballotsposed to like
eight different things that we would have to run through.
But once they do that, then I think they have
a good shot at getting this on the ballot. And
passed all right. Janelle Irwin Taylor Southeast Politics publisher with us.
You can check out all over work and a whole
lot more at Southeast Politics dot com, and of course,
(05:53):
you can find her on X for more at Janelle
Irwin FL. Janelle really appreciate the breakdown. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Always a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA. Follow us
on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show, and find
us online at Ryangormanshow dot com.
And right now, let's bring in the publisher of Southeast Politics,
Janelle Irwin Taylor is back with us. You can find
all of her work and a whole lot more at
Southeast politics dot com and you can follow her on
x and Janelle Irwin fl So, Janelle, great to talk
to you again. And I want to go back to
late last week. You had Florida House Speaker Danny Perez.
He rolled out eight new property tax proposals and this
(00:24):
is something that Governor DeSantis has been pushing for property
tax relief. What did the House come up with?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Okay, So there's probably too much to fit into our
little tiny segment here, because there is a ton of information.
I think what the top lines that are most important
to consider here because things are going to change rapid
fire once all of this goes through the legislative process,
is that of those eight proposals, seven of them would
(00:53):
go on the twenty twenty six ballot for voters to
choose from. They all would reduce property taxes in one
way or another. None would affect property taxes that go
to schools. That eliminates the argument that reducing property taxes
would just do it our public school system so this
(01:14):
would maintain funding for public schools. Some would eliminate property
taxes for seniors. Some would increase the home set exemption
incrementally to help people save on property taxes. Some would
eliminate property taxes altogether. Over ten years, there's a whole
state of options to choose from, And the idea behind
(01:35):
that was to give voters the opportunity to pick ideas that,
you know, kind of fit what they thought would work
best for our state. What I see as potentially problematic
here is when you give voters so many choices, what
happens if like four of them passed right, three of
(01:56):
them though, Like does the most you know, does the
one with the biggest cut supersede all others?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
How does that even go into implementation? So I think
there's probably going to need to be some conversation about that.
You have to worry about voter confusion, maybe voter confusion
as the point, I think there's just there's a lot
that they're going to have to consider in the legislative session,
and these these proposals do have to go through the
legislative process and get super majority approval from the legislature
(02:23):
to be placed on the ballot, which is probably going
to happen considering we have a supermajority GOP majority and
on both chambers of the legislature. So that's kind of
like the top line bird's eye view, happy to dive deeper.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, so there are really three buckets. There are eliminations.
There are the eliminations of certain property taxes. You've got
the exemptions. There are more exemptions that they would potentially make,
and then there are some reforms. So it kind of
(02:56):
falls into those three categories. And then within those categories
there are other options. But like you said, uh, anything
impacting schools or police and fire funding is protected. But
they're going to have to simplify this, and I'm wondering
if they, you know, they have to realize that you
can't put you know, seven things eight things on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, it does allow them to really have robust conversations
during legislative session to hash all of that out. So
I think that's why I say, I think you're probably
going to see some changes and maybe some wheeling down
of this list through the legislative process. But you know,
from an opposition standpoint, because Democrats are going to be
a post to this it's a this is a huge
(03:37):
line of revenue for local governments. So in many ways,
this is going to be labeled as an attack on
home rule, you know, in a roundabout way, by reducing
the amount of revenue that cities are able to collect.
Of course, the GOP is of the mindset that's, you know,
that's a good thing that they need to you know,
tighten up their budgets anyways, so you know, let's just
(03:58):
get leaner. So you know, there's a lot of there's
a lot of arguments, but anybody opposed to this, they're
going to have an uphill battle right from the get
go because anytime you're presenting voters with an opportunity to
lower their costs, especially at a time when afford there's
an affordability crisis that's really hurting the residents of Florida.
You know, nobody is going to vote for the candidate
(04:21):
and their schools. You know, student government president Race who's
saying that they're going to reform classroom policy. They're going
to vote for the candidate who says free ice cream
sandwiches for yeah, well this is the free ice cream sandwich.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So and the fact that they're adding in hard right
from the start, schools and police and fire they're protected.
I think obviously that was a smart move by Republicans.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, and the police and fire thing not only does
it protect them, it bars they would bar local governments
from from reducing police and fire budgets. So it's kind
of of a without saying it out loud, it's it's
an it's a response to the defund the police movement basically,
(05:08):
So there's also that, but yeah, it's well, and sixty
five percent of Florida voters, according to a poll in
late September on support reducing our eliminating property taxes. So
that's more than the sixty percent threshold that Florida needs
to pass a constitutional amendment. So I mean it's the
cards are stacked in the GOP's favor on that, and
they're definitely stacked against anybody who opposes these measures.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, I think they just got to clean it up
by consolidating some of these proposals, like making it a
little bit simpler for everyone on the ballotsposed to like
eight different things that we would have to run through.
But once they do that, then I think they have
a good shot at getting this on the ballot. And
passed all right. Janelle Irwin Taylor Southeast Politics publisher with us.
You can check out all over work and a whole
lot more at Southeast Politics dot com, and of course,
(05:53):
you can find her on X for more at Janelle
Irwin FL. Janelle really appreciate the breakdown. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Always a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA. Follow us
on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show, and find
us online at Ryangormanshow dot com.
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