Tim Rodocker

@HollyBullardFL So people who use things would need to pay for them directly? Like a toll road? That… actually makes a lot of sense. Why should someone without a boat pay for boat ramps?!

“We can do things like park fees, boat launch fees,” said (GOP Manatee County Commissioner) Kruse. “Our buses are currently free, but we’d have to start charging bus fees — and that starts hitting the very people we’re trying to help.” In other words: the Fee State of Florida

@HollyBullardFL The amount of people commenting that are so sure of how rentals are priced, and how taxes work for them… along with misunderstanding what you said, is shocking. I’m a landlord. I expect my property tax to increase and I will pass it through via higher rent.

“DeSantis is poised to perpetrate the biggest tax shift on Floridians in the state’s history. … His proposal could be a financial disaster for the nearly 40% of Floridians who rent their homes, …and landlords, who won’t get a tax cut, would be forced to raise rent.”

@wholemars Sliced bread my man. Sliced bread is the greatest thing created by man. Led to the creation of sammiches. Probably more important than the wheel itself.

Tesla Self-Driving is the greatest thing ever created by man IMO. When you lie to people you just torch your own credibility. Sooner or later your readers will try it for themselves and realize you lied to them.

@anymanfitness It’s not about the kid remembering it, ding dong. It’s for the parents to remember it. There’s no better time to take them than when they are free, cute, and easy to manage.

This is why you need to wait until your kids are 8+ to take them to Disney. They need to be well out of the nap era, able to walk 20k steps and not whine, and most importantly - be able to appreciate and remember it. No reason to take babies or toddlers to Disney.

@PelagicLoup Oil changes, gas, poor milage, not much utility, annoying to drive, annoying to park. Just too much work for no return.

I don’t care about brand of truck, I just want to understand guys who don’t want one of these and why? More so I want to understand the reasoning for why some guys hate things like this?

@tronics_sniffer @EricSpracklen I do believe at 5% commission with fees and docs, this is already at a loss.

@EricSpracklen I looked this one up. Looks like someone got dupped into buying it at $425K and is trying to get out from under it. Late 2022 to mid 2026 and only asking 25K about what they bought it for ain't gouging. If they can't sell it soon...they're going to have to sell it for a loss!

🚨HOUSING MARKET CRASH🚨 Seller made a $45k price cut on 5/18 yet they still want $450,000 for 1,685sqft. The house has spent 72 days on Zillow and is still not selling. Because it’s still OVERPRICED! Anyone denying that prices must come down before houses sell is lying.

@WallStreetApes ???? You can say this about any food that’s cooked by a restaurant. Did you think wing stop has their own patented birds in their own farms raised by memaw? Be serious

Wingstop employee wants Americans to know when you go to Wingstop you’re just buying regular Tyson chicken. He shows all the boxes as proof I ran the numbers on Tyson wholesale chicken prices and compared it to Wingstop prices They markup the chicken over 500% - Wholesale Tyson chicken wings typically cost restaurants $1.50–$2.50+ per pound - A pound of bone-in wings yields roughly 8–10 wings - Cost to Wingstop: $0.20–$0.35 per wing that’s including sauce, seasoning and prep - Selling price: $1.00–$1.50+ per wing, or even higher in combos - Markup is 300–500%+ on chicken cost You’re just paying for regular Tyson chicken wings in sauce that’s fried Make it at home and save yourself the 500% markup

@StraightFlorida @BN9 Tbf you’re partially confusing St Pete Beach and St. Petersburg. Two very different cities on opposite coasts of Pinellas county. June stuff aside, the st Pete of the 90s would get you killed if you went down the wrong street. Now it’s clean, safe, and prosperous.

St. Pete used to be a nice little city. Now it’s just a giant open-air therapy session with rainbow flags, where every June the city collectively decides that mental illness and child mutilation are cultural achievements worth celebrating. They’ve somehow turned a once-decent beach town into the official home of the “Pedophile Trailer Park” and the national headquarters for grown men in wigs reading to toddlers. Congratulations, St. Pete. You went from “quaint coastal city” to “Florida’s official embarrassment” in record time. Y’all are speedrunning becoming the next San Francisco, except with worse traffic and more humidity. Impressive. 🤡

Pride Month got an early start in St. Petersburg Friday night. St. Pete Pride's street fair drew residents and vendors to kick off the annual celebration of the LGBTQ community. specne.ws/919vR1

@SawyerMerritt Needed badly down in Florida. The crappy Amazon things suck

Tesla China has released its first ever retractable sunshade for the Model Y for 1,499 yuan ($236 USD). Very easy to install. I hope they launch this globally, because I will absolutely buy this.

@FBSaunders @flcounties Compare to 2019

The @flcounties are warning DeSantis-backed property tax proposals could blow a major hole in local budgets. The FAC analysis estimates county revenue losses of $3.57B in FY 2027-28 and $6.32B in FY 2028-29. Officials handing this out to lawmakers:

@JeffreyBrandes Your family are long time business owners. What happens if you can’t keep your lights on? Absolutely no different for government. MUH ROADS THOUGH! Private roads exist. Volunteer fire departments exist. Guns in every home exists. Rural will be fine.

1/ Florida has 67 counties. How many will still be truly self-governing after this proposal? If a county needs annual appropriations from Tallahassee to fund police, roads, EMS, and other core services, is it really an independent county anymore? Let's do a thought experiment.

@mmeJen What’s crazy… is these are the people the boomers raised. So yet again, they failed.

It will come back to haunt them. Societies that don't respect the elderly and give them a path to a dignified old age are not advanced societies. And they will suffer the consequences when their turn comes. Dehumanizing.

@HollyBullardFL @GWKruse Or what if… they just go back to 2019 spending levels. Just because taxes doubled in 5 years doesn’t mean their spending needs to!

“We can make anything work, we’ll just have to charge a fee for literally everything,” said George Kruse, a Republican on the Manatee County Commission. Thank you for being honest with taxpayers @GWKruse

@SawyerMerritt Spec’ed nicer than the new Ferrari. But that fake sound thing. Why do they think people want fake sounds??

Mercedes has officially announced pricing for its all-electric AMG GT 4-Door Coupe EV. • GT 55 starting price: $180,000 • GT 63 starting price: $228,000 • Fully loaded GT 63: $250,000+ • Range: Up to ~315 miles (EPA) • Up to 1,153 hp • 0-60 mph: 2.0s • Peak charging speed: 600kW • 106 kWh battery • 10-80% state of charge as low as 11 mins. Can add 244 miles of range in 10 mins. • Formula 1-based 800-volt battery • Fake V8 engine noises & gear shift sounds (shown below) • Mercedes said it’s using 1,600 audio files to “sonically interpret” different driving situations. The car makes “exhaust burbles and pops" like as gas car. • 2660 cylindrical cells, arrayed in 18 modules, nine to a side. Nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminum chemistry. Energy density of 298 Wh/kg. • Active aerodynamics • Top speed: 186-mph • Double sunroof with illuminated AMG logos over both driver and passenger seats • Triple-screen layout. 10.2" digital instrument cluster alongside a pair of 14" screens. Infotainment display is slightly tilted toward the driver. • Optional 5 seat layout U.S. deliveries start in late 2026

@JeffreyBrandes Bonus commentary: what happened to you, man? You used to be one of the good guys. Then you ban guns, and now are speaking out against tax reform? What’s next? Standing next to AOC pushing green new deal garbage? I’m so sad at what you’ve become.

Bonus question: Where is the sunset clause? This proposal would fundamentally restructure local government finance in the third-largest state in America. So where is the mandatory five-year review? Measure homeowner savings, renter impacts, debt stress, infrastructure quality, public safety, and unintended consequences. Big reforms need an exit ramp if the theory fails.

🧵Ten questions Florida should answer before detonating the property tax system: 1. If this is real tax reform, what replaces it? Florida built local government around property taxes because Florida has no state income tax. You can dislike the system, but you cannot remove the load-bearing wall without explaining what keeps the roof from collapsing afterward.

@JeffreyBrandes Bonus: We don’t need sunset clauses on increasing the homestead deduction. By the time it sunsets you’d be asking for all governments to redo it all again (broken window job creation for gov I guess??)

@JeffreyBrandes 10. Yah no kidding. They will get their money from somewhere. It can be from something other than home steaded properties. Not a big deal at all.

10. Does this proposal reduce the cost of government or simply change the collection mechanism? Nothing in the proposal prevents governments from relying more heavily on utility fees, stormwater charges, mobility fees, special assessments, franchise fees, or special districts. If the total cost to taxpayers remains roughly the same, this is not necessarily smaller government. It is simply a different billing system.

@JeffreyBrandes 9. Sure, but we shouldn’t pull one lever available because we can’t pull them all at the same time? I don’t care which lever is first. But one has to be. I’ll take a property tax reduction while waiting on insurance reductions.

9. Are we trying to solve a housing crisis entirely through the tax code? Florida’s affordability crisis is not just taxes. It is missing starter homes, restrictive zoning, rising insurance, infrastructure costs, and years of making housing harder to build. You cannot tax-cut your way out of a starter home shortage.

@JeffreyBrandes 8. Tax payers don’t give a damn about anything. This sort of noise sorts it self out when the back door deals happen out of the sunshine. Latvala type stuff. No fear mongering needed here.

8. What happens to Florida’s special districts? Florida already relies heavily on CDDs, special districts, MSTUs, infrastructure authorities, and assessment-based financing. If cities and counties lose flexibility, does growth simply shift into more off-book financing structures and special assessments? Taxpayers do not care which government entity sends the invoice. They care that the invoice still arrives.

@JeffreyBrandes 7. Again, continue the 4 year trend of cost cutting. Aside, this is a minor reduction in taxes. They aren’t “eliminating “ property taxes, they are increasing the homestead amount.

7. What funds the trust fund when Florida itself is projecting multi-billion-dollar deficits? Sales taxes? Documentary stamps? Debt? New fees? “Future growth”? Florida’s own long-range forecasts already project structural deficits beginning in fiscal year 2027-28. So what is the durable funding source? A trust fund without recurring revenue is not reform. It is delayed instability with a press release.