Our Position | 3 Degrees Florida

The math doesn't add up.

We’re not asking Florida residents to vote against property tax relief. We’re asking them to look one step beyond what is being proposed. What happens after the property tax cut?

We'll all pay for the loss of essential service capacity and quality one way or another. A lower property tax bill isn’t a bargain if you end up paying more everywhere else. The folks at "NO on 3" have the numbers here.

A deep dive into our rationale for sounding the alarm is presented below: "A Ballot that Buries the Cost."

A Ballot that Buries the Cost

Florida voters have the sovereign power to amend their Constitution. That power is broad, and it should be respected. But it depends on a basic condition that voters must be told what they are actually being asked to approve. A ballot summary need not contain every detail of a proposed amendment, but it must fairly disclose the amendment’s chief purpose and material legal effect. When the state uses the ballot to ask voters to change the Constitution, it cannot describe only

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Local Impact Data

Links to data sources are intended to help Floridians understand how the proposed property tax amendment could affect local governments in their own communities. Our focus is on two measurable issues: (1) the estimated reduction in local property tax revenue or taxable value, and (2) the degree to which cities and counties rely on that revenue to fund local operations. [Data nuts, click here for "The Tax Shift" analysis.] Florida Association of Counties' impact analysis can b

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