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Ron DeSantis: “People are having to pay more [property tax] even if you're…”

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Published | Video Starts at 07:59

Now they're not as quick to downgrade the value of your property when the market goes down. It's kind of a one way ratchet. But what's happened is People are having to pay more [property tax] even if you're not raising millage, they're still having to pay more because the assessments have gone up. And so we are leading the effort. We got to get the legislature to put it on the ballot because it's local. (07:59–08:06)

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Asserts that property tax assessments have increased, causing people to pay more even without millage rate increases.

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