Week of November 8, 2007
For legislators, the beauty of upending Florida’s property tax structure is that they’ll be term-limited out of office before they have to face the inevitable consequences.
Legislators wildly altered their new tax relief plan from day to day, right up to the final hours last week, based only on what deal they could cut among themselves.
The reverberations are still distant, so it’s entirely possible that the plan that goes on the ballot Jan. 29 might actually do what’s intended without irreparably harming the public, business, the Florida economy, or state or local government.
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