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Byron Donalds: “Local governments could have gone to rollback rates to…”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

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Bald Eagles Ep.18 - Guest Congressman Byron Donalds, Running For Florida Governor

Published | Video Starts at 42:30

And there's pros and cons to that. I don't want to quibble on that piece. Reason why I'm for it. People aren't piggy banks for government. And this is where the Local governments could have gone to rollback rates to smooth out the amount of property taxes they were collecting when property values were shooting through the roof. They didn't do that. And so now they're saying, oh, but you can't take the driving you away because now we rely on it. Well, guess what? That. That senior on fixed income, their budgets haven't grown. (42:30–42:38)

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Asserts that local governments did not use rollback rates to manage property tax collection during property value increases.

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