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Ron DeSantis: “State Farm reduced rates 10%.”

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Governor DeSantis Awards $311 Million for Infrastructure Repair in 37 Florida Communities

Published December 19, 2025 | Video Starts at 03:52

I mean, it was a crazy. Some of the stuff that was going on. So. So they did that. State Farm reduced rates 10%. And you're going to, I think you're going to see it. These other companies are going to either reduce or have to do, do the rebates to consumers. (03:52–03:56)

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Ron DeSantis

“Since I've been governor, we've retired half of [Florida's debt] in a six year, six plus year period.”
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“We now have the lowest per capita debt in the country.”
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“You end up having go from 1.4 million down to about 300,000 people [on Citizens Insurance].”
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“In 2019, local governments in Florida combined took in $32 billion in property tax revenue. Today, they're taking in $56 billion.”
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“That number for our state budget is less than half of New York's budget. And we have millions of more people than New York does.”
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“We are three years in a row we've been ranked number one economy by both CNBC and US News and World Report.”
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“We have the lowest tuition in our university system in the United States by a long shot. So for in state, it's about $6,300 for tuition.”
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“You've saved like almost $2 billion between principal and interest [by retiring debt].”
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“8 million [to] DeSoto County to construct and install wells and a pumping system to connect the wastewater treatment plant to the disposal…”
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“Progressive, one of the biggest auto insurers, you know, they're sending out a billion dollars in rebates to their policyholders.”
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“Peninsula, which is one of our biggest ones, announced, I think an 8% reduction.”
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“The number of people on [Citizens Insurance] got up to 1.4 million.”
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“1.4 million [to] Glen St. Mary for wastewater collection system hardening.”
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“We don't have an income tax, thank God.”
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“We've made almost all the essentials exempt from sales tax. Groceries, medications, all baby items are exempt from sales tax.”
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“Disaster preparedness, all those, all that holiday is permanent. Back to school tax is permanent.”
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“We're currently till the end of the year have our second amendment tax holiday. No tax on ammunition and firearms accoutrements, fishing…”
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“We got rid of the business rent tax. Totally eliminated.”
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“We are probably the lowest tax state per capita in the country. Certainly in the top two or three.”
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“We've had population growth, we've had inflation account for all of that. It still wouldn't put you at 56.”
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“300/million dollars of overspending in Miami Dade, 200 million overspending in Orange county.”
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“In my budget, because there's some of the rural counties like, oh, no, we can't do, we can't. First of all, I think you can do it. But I put…”
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“We had tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs created in Florida since I've been governor.”
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“We're going to award $3 million to the Sebring Airport Authority to demolish and replace the existing stormwater system and associated…”
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“We're also awarding 22 million to the city of Avon park to assess, evaluate, repair, and potentially rebuild the facilities at the City of…”
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“Today, the total of this for all across Florida is $311 million on really important projects.”
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“We're able to do almost 6 million to the Bradford County Commission to reinforce the roadway by adding base pavement and reestablish the…”
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“16.4 million to the Citrus county for replacement of sanitary sewer system.”
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“14.2 million to widen the main stormwater channel in the city [of Arcadia].”
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“8.5 million to construct and expand the wastewater treatment plant [in Arcadia].”
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“3.9 million to construct a 100,000 gallon water storage tank and support a waterline loop project [in Live Oak, North Florida].”
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“$7 million to the City of McLenney in North Florida to harden and modernize the Ohio street water treatment plant.”
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“4.9 million to the city of Palatka in Northeast Florida to harden and expand the capacity of the city's wastewater treatment plant.”
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“$4 million [to] upgrade and hardened shelters in Columbia County.”
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“1.9 million to Hardee county to remove vegetative debris from the Peace river waterway system.”
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“$20 million to Jacksonville Electric Authority to redirect wastewater flows to JEA's existing reliable wastewater treatment facility.”
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“2.7 million to Okeechobee County Board of Commissioners to rehabilitate, preserve and harden five critical county owned bridges.”
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“$70 million to repair water infrastructure [in] the Peace river watershed.”
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“38 million in Suwannee county for an emergency special needs shelter.”
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“2.4 million [to the] City of Huachula to support wastewater system repairs, rehabilitation and flood water.”
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“Half a million to Huachula, 2 million to Columbia County. 250,000 to Hardy County. 226,000 to Hardy Industrial Development Authority. 2.9…”
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“We took a bunch of money, leveraged it, and then did an infusion. And so now those [road] projects are going to be delivered to the, to the…”
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“Our transportation budget is very strong this year going forward as well.”
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“We've done a lot on environmental restoration, Everglades, all this stuff. We've built reservoirs and we've put a lot of resources into it.”
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“Once you reach where you have the infrastructure, water flows properly, you don't have to spend as much in the future.”
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“We have the number one ranked public university system in the world or in the country.”
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“I signed an nil bill very early. I think we were the first state to do it.”
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“We had to go down and liberalize even more because everyone else kind of blew this.”
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“They actually have to have general managers now for college football, because it basically is, you know, like a professional thing.”
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