ORLANDO, Fla. – Governor Ron DeSantis has made it abundantly clear: if he had it his way, he would get rid of property taxes .
Of course, as the governor has acknowledged, reducing or eliminating property taxes would need to be approved through a constitutional amendment on a ballot before voters.
That has not stopped DeSantis from hammering home his vision for property tax relief .
“I’m not just doing this to just like go around and crow about property tax,” DeSantis said at a press conference in Jacksonville Wednesday. “I want to see something big enacted. That’s the whole goal.”
At the press conference, DeSantis and Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia railed against what they deemed “wasteful” and “excessive” spending by local governments throughout the state.
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