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Ron DeSantis: “Non residents and tourists pay probably a third of our sales…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Governor DeSantis Speaks at Palm Beach Atlantic University

Published | Video Starts at 25:27

The problem I have is I've run out of taxes to cut. I mean, like, you have a sales tax, but honestly, the. For the visitors pay a lot of that. Non residents and tourists pay probably a third of our sales tax when you total it up like that. So I think that's good that we have a tax system where Floridians aren't having to shoulder the entire load and we have others. So all that stuff would make Florida. (25:27–25:34)

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Asserts that non-residents and tourists contribute about one-third of Florida's sales tax revenue.

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