Taxes & Spending

Cutting Spending, Lowering Taxes and Achieving Significant Property Tax Reform:

In the current economy, the last thing Floridians need is a higher tax burden. As described fully in “Real Solutions, New Jobs: A Roadmap to Florida’s Future” Bill has released a proposal to freeze millage and property tax rates at 2010 levels for two years, cap local government spending to grow no faster than the overall wealth of Floridians, and ensure that governments never grow faster than the people they serve.

Between 1986 and 2006, local government spending grew almost twice as fast as the increase in personal income.  This lack of fiscal discipline is unsustainable, and immediate action is necessary to ensure that local governments do not raise taxes to cover losses caused by shrinking property values. Further, Bill will strive to lower corporate income taxes and provide high-tech, manufacturing and infrastructure sales tax exemptions to small businesses.  Bill will cut state spending, reduce burdensome and unnecessary bureaucracy, and make Florida’s state agencies the most efficient and user-friendly in the nation.

Property Taxes — The McCollum Property Tax; Local Government Spending Solution