Gubernatorial candidate Paul Renner wants the Governor and Legislature to roll back property taxes while they hash out the road forward to permanent abatement for homesteaders, and potentially others.

“ We see that property taxes in Florida have risen at least twice as fast as our incomes, and people simply can’t keep up,” the Palm Coast Republican said in Tampa. “When I go to events, I talk to people on a regular basis who are losing their homes, leaving the state, or contemplating leaving the state, and that has to stop now.”

Taxes had been rolled back in 2006 and 2007, Renner said, establishing precedent for the proposal as a stopgap while the executive and legislative branch figure out a unified way forward.

“W hile the Governor and the Legislature work on a longer-term plan,

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