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I would love to not pay property taxes. The problems cited in the article are real. But where do they plan to get the revenue from? It has to come from somewhere, and how do we know it won’t be worse than property taxes? They need to tell us the rest of the plan. Municipalities rely on that revenue. I’m concerned DeSantis is doing this to exert control over counties and cities he doesn’t like. I don’t want to live in a place with crumbling infrastructure and no money for schools just because little Napoleon DeSantis doesn’t like the local policies residents voted for. It’s become impossible to take anything he says at face value.
Well that's the neat part! They campaign on how the government doesn't work - then in an effort to "streamline" they reduce taxes/funding for things like roads and bridges. The infra starts crumbling but instead of constituents wanting more funding, they take the crumbling info as evidence of the mismanagement, and just claim the government sucks at what it does.
At least, that's how it is in Missouri.