Tag: state budget

Staff ReportsNovember 23, 2015
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Gov. Rick Scott plans to release his recommended state budget Monday in Jacksonville. Scott’s office said he will debut his “Florida First” budget for 2016-17 at 10 a.m., at Harbinger Sign on Shad Road. The Florida Channel will carry the announcement live. Earlier this month, Cynthia Kelly, Scott’s budget director, wrote a memo in which she […]

Staff ReportsNovember 9, 2015
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Gov. Rick Scott on Monday begins his “$1 Billion Tax Cut Tour,” which he says is intended to “grow small businesses and diversify” Florida’s more than $750 billion state economy. But already signs are that fellow Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature will push back. Scott says the dramatic tax cuts will help withstand the next economic downturn, whenever […]

Bill PrescottSeptember 24, 2015

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Public education consumes almost 30 percent of Florida’s budget. So what are taxpayers getting for that investment, which this is year about $22.9 billion, compared to other states? Florida TaxWatch, a government watchdog think tank that evaluates government spending, has created its own guide to help answer that question: How Florida Compares – Education. The […]


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