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Ron DeSantis: “We got to get the legislature to put it on the ballot…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Published | Video Starts at 08:08

But what's happened is people are having to pay more. 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. It's not something the state can do on its own right now to do the property tax overhaul. so that people one can stay in their homes. I mean, we have elderly people that are having to sell their homes because they can't afford to keep paying the property tax. (08:08–08:19)

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Asserts that a property tax overhaul requires legislative action to be put on the ballot, as it cannot be done by the state alone.

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