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Ron DeSantis: “Local government property tax revenue has basically doubled…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds news conference in Bradenton

Published | Video Starts at 03:44

How much protection do you get? These are decisions we the people are able to make. And so we have looked to see as from 2019 till the present, Local government property tax revenue has basically doubled. It was a little over 30 billion in 2019, and now it's about 60 billion. Maybe not uniform throughout the state, but everywhere has gone up pretty dramatically. That's just a fact. And the question is, okay, has that been necessary or should the taxpayers have been benefiting along the way? (03:44–03:53)

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Asserts that local government property tax revenue in Florida has doubled from 2019 to the present.

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