The Crazy, It's Out There!

[Snarl]

Running is not the answer, because the developers keep on developing. They won't stop until they have taken every inch.

Currently we are being overrun with "migrants" and surprisingly people from Florida who have been priced out of places to live there- which is causing housing prices to skyrocket here and is pricing out the locals. 

Even as rents keep rising and rising (ours has risen by about $300 in the past 3 years for a one bedroom efficiency) it is still cheaper than other big cities and so their denizens are flocking here like geese. Add to the mix that our government is willing to pay whatever they have to to house the "migrants" and the rents will continue to rise.

Out of desperation I checked out rents in my old hometown down in Texas though I never wanted to live there again but they are having the same issues. The same apartment one of our daughters rented 5 years ago is nearly $400 more per month now (if they even had a vacancy- but they don't!) and that is the cheapest complex within a 25 mile radius. Same problems everywhere apparently.

At the rate they are going within our lifetime poor and middle class American renters will be completely priced out of the market, homelessness will boom greater than it already has and "migrants" will replace us completely all while our tax dollars foot the bill. It's scary and I wouldn't have believed it just a few years ago. Personally I'm cheering for a big asteroid to come.

I consider myself 'displaced' from Florida. I bought land down there a little more than 40 years ago. Built a nice retirement home on it. The land set me back $65K and about the same again for the structures. The greatest value I got from owning it was that I learned a lot.

Florida makes its money off of property taxes. You get a pretty good break if you've got livestock (part of that learning stuff). They also have a grandfather tax thingy where your taxes don't flux after you've owned a place for a while ... even if the appraised value skyrockets.

Longer story than I have time for. Wife's hollering at me to get ready for church.

[SomeJackleg]

Florida makes its money off of property taxes. You get a pretty good break if you've got livestock (part of that learning stuff). They also have a grandfather tax thingy where your taxes don't flux after you've owned a place for a while ... even if the appraised value skyrockets.

there was a bill in the in the house to do away with property taxes. but it died in committee.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida lawmakers could eliminate all property tax and replace lost revenue through a consumption tax, according to the Florida Senate.

House Bill 1371, originally filed on Jan. 5, exempted $100,000 of the value of real property from being taxed. Those over the age of 65 would be qualified to be exempted from property tax up to $250,000.

Florida bill would eliminate all property taxes

from the Bill PDF,

HB 1371 2024
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hb1371-00
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F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S
A bill to be entitled1
An act relating to property tax exemptions; creating2
s. 196.2003, F.S.; creating a certain exemption from3
all taxation for real property; creating s. 196.076,4
F.S.; creating a certain homestead exemption from all5
taxation for certain property; authorizing the6
Department of Revenue to adopt rules; requiring the7
Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government8
Accountability to conduct a study and submit a report9
by a specified date; providing a contingent effective10
date.

CS/HB 1371: Property Tax System Study  GENERAL BILL by Ways & Means Committee ; Chamberlin  Property Tax System Study; Requires OPPAGA to conduct a specified study & report findings by specified date.


then there was another for increasing Homestead Exemption,it passed the state house, but hasn't gone anywhere in the state senate yet.

The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill to increase property tax exemptions in Florida annually with inflation. 

Florida lawmakers passed HJR 7017 with a margin of 86-29 – more than enough to meet the two-thirds requirement. The implementing legislation, HJR 7019, directs the Florida Legislature to make sure fiscally constrained counties get a budget offset to make up the difference.

Homestead tax exemption could double, but cause shortfalls


at least some of the house has the people interest in mind, others and the senate need to shit or get off the pot.

[Snarl]

Florida makes its money off of property taxes. You get a pretty good break if you've got livestock (part of that learning stuff). They also have a grandfather tax thingy where your taxes don't flux after you've owned a place for a while ... even if the appraised value skyrockets.

there was a bill in the in the house to do away with property taxes. but it died in committee.

Proving: It's damn near impossible to get their hands out of our pockets.

If I could get away with it, when they stuck their hands in, I'd cut 'em off ... at the shoulder.