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Guest AuthorOctober 9, 2018

When you go to the polls in November, there is more at stake than the general election. You’ll also be voting on Amendment 1 to the state constitution, and a no vote will help ensure that we won’t be hit right in the wallet. Florida’s property tax system is a complicated mess. Amendment 1 won’t […]

Danny McAuliffeJanuary 25, 2018

A Democratic push to expand affordable health care coverage in Florida has a unique selling point: it could save the state more than $500 million. At a news conference on Thursday, Rep. Lori Berman, a Lantana Democrat, said a resolution she’s sponsoring to expand Medicaid coverage would significantly cut costs from other health spending areas […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 12, 2017

A committee of Florida’s Constitution Revision Commission approved a proposal Tuesday to require House and Senate supermajorities before increasing state taxes or fees. The Finance and Taxation Committee was the only committee stop for the measure, presented by Chair Fred Karlinsky. Karlinsky, the co-chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Insurance Regulatory and Transactions Practice Group, was a Rick Scott CRC […]

Phil AmmannMay 31, 2017

Florida’s vicennial Constitution Revision Commission is drawing fire for a lack of transparency in scheduling a vote on a package of procedural rules for changes to the state’s constitution. A letter Wednesday from a coalition of advocacy groups said CRC Chair Carlos Beruff is throwing shade on the process by disbanding the eight-person Rules Working […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 13, 2017

A new report issued Monday urges state lawmakers in Florida to expand initiatives in community-based treatment for wayward youth, saying it is less expensive and results in better outcomes than going through the incarceration route. “Florida is spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to run state and county youth detention centers, while evidence shows that locking […]

Joe HendersonDecember 19, 2016

Last April, in a news release by his office after signing HB-7099, Gov. Rick Scott bragged, “Over the past two years, Florida has cut more than $1 billion in taxes.” What a happy day that must have been for the governor. He has never met a tax he wouldn’t cut or gut, and that bill […]

Scott PowersMarch 16, 2016

The Florida Policy Institute says the state’s new 2016 budget is better than Gov. Rick Scott’s initial proposal. The nonprofit’s report, though, says the spending plan still lacks adequate investment in health care, public education, prisons and other state services. The report praised the Legislature for killing Scott’s proposed $1 billion tax cut, saying it […]

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Michael Sittig: If Amendment 1 passes, most of us lose

Medicaid expansion could save state $500M, lawmaker says

Supermajority for tax hikes proposal clears sole CRC committee

Advocacy groups blast CRC Chair Carlos Beruff for ‘throwing shade’ on process

New non-profit report says incarcerating non-violent youth in Florida is costly and often ineffective

Rick Scott wants it both ways: cut taxes, fund services. Can it be done?

Policy institute calls final state budget better than Rick Scott’s, but still lacking