So their tax bases aren't the same as Orange or Broward or Miami Dade, where you have a lot more tourism, all this other stuff. I've calculated it. If you eliminated on day one any tax from personal homesteaded properties in all 32 of those counties, I can backfill that for about $270 million a year. And that's budget desk. We got an $18 billion surplus. So. And we will do that. I will do that because I don't want there to be, oh, what are the rurals going to do? (37:55–38:10)
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