Reducing or eliminating some local property taxes is a high priority for Gov. Ron DeSantis and Daniel Perez, the top Republican in the Florida House of Representatives. But at least one Republican member of the House thinks it's the wrong debate to have.

“We don't get a lot of complaints about property taxes,” Rep. Jim Mooney told WLRN. “We get a lot of complaints about insurance, which I think honestly should be the bigger debate.”

Mooney represents the Keys and rural Miami-Dade County. Before being elected to Tallahassee, he was part of a group of Keys residents who incorporated the city of Islamorada in the late 1990s. Mooney served as its mayor before and after Hurricane Irma in 2017. He says that experience in local government has informed his approach to the debate over local prope

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