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Ron DeSantis: “Local governments were taking in 32 billion in property tax…”

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Governor DeSantis Announces 'Floridians First' Budget in Orlando

Published | Video Starts at 1:04:20

Red counties that he's going after. And so I think this is. But it all goes back to the tidbit I mentioned in the opening remarks. If we were here in 2019, Local governments were taking in 32 billion in property tax statewide in 2019. Today, they're taking in 56 billion. billion. And I would just ask, I know we've had population, I know we've had inflation, but accounting for that, that's still a massive increase, right? (1:04:20–1:04:29)

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Asserts that local government property tax revenue in Florida increased from 32 billion to 56 billion since 2019.

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