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Real Estate Gov. Ron DeSantis Backs Proposal To Eliminate Property Taxes in Florida

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dmpi said:
I'd love it but I don't see how they can do it. That funding has to come from somewhere.
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The OP article is indicating mostly a sales tax increase.
 
Allan said:
I wouldn't bother discussing anything with a sovereign citizen any more than I'd engage with a drooling flat-earther.

That's why.
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Gee, another dodge. I wonder why?
 
aociswundumho said:
Property taxes are an abomination. You basically have to pay rent to the government for life. I've known many people on fixed incomes who had to sell their homes because the couldn't afford to pay the rent demanded by rotten government.
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Fine, set up an income tax system then.

Oh, wait...
 
Peter said:
Because the state says ao but if you aren't obligated to obey the state then why should you follow laws?
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The state can exert those consequences whether or not the individual agrees to it. That's how states work.

I'll give you a real-life example. When I was a teenager, I regularly broke the law by possessing, purchasing and using marijuana. A whole lot of marijuana.

Smoking marijuana was not immoral to me, but was unethical at the time. When I was arrested when I was 19 for a few grams in my pocket, I suffered the consequences of my ethical violation.
 

No state income tax already. No property tax would mean even less revenue. That leaves state consumption taxes. The cost of daily life in FL is about to go up that much more -- as if their cratering property insurance market wasn't enough to deal with.
 

Simply put, it was illegal at the time. And the State had the power to impose consequences.
 

I'm not a sovereign citizen.
I don't understand the concept and I'm glad we have almost zero people who claim that shit in the UK.
 
Hurricane season is coming.
 
gbg3 said:
The OP article is indicating mostly a sales tax increase.
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I pay 10.2% sales tax here. When I was a kid it was 4%. Sales tax shouldn't go up with inflation. Crazy!
 
TheDoctorWasIn said:
Yes, exactly.

Laws are ethics, codified. Morals are something different.
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Not even sure I'd agree that they're ethics per se.

For civilization to function, it requires the advent, development, and maintenance of complex systems. The law is a system. It is a system that is designed for the purpose of achieving a degree of social harmony, which is not to be confused with social agreement or consensus, but simply a way for people to mostly behave in ways that are predictable, so that the society as a whole is stable.
 

I don't disagree with anything that you've said - but I think that's what ethics are.

Ethics are not determined by popular vote - it's the social contract itself.
 
Peter said:
I'm not a sovereign citizen.
I don't understand the concept and I'm glad we have almost zero people who claim that shit in the UK.
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The curse of being one of the last great largely uninhabited, 'uncivilized' land masses. European settlers came over sometime between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and grabbed North America by the *****. We've been feeling pretty entitled since.
 
TheDoctorWasIn said:
Ethics are not determined by popular vote - it's the social contract itself.
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Finally. There's the problem. The idea that anyone is bound by some ridiculous "contract" the terms of which no one would actually agree to.
 
Safiel said:
It is a dumb proposal.

Florida has no income tax, therefore a massive sales tax increase would be needed. A massive tax falling on the people least capable of paying a massive tax.
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That was my first thought as well, a big enough sales tax to make up for the loss of revenue.
 
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