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Arch at the Obama Presidential Library. This is not AI.
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@JackLinFLL @MayorDaniella She panders to special interests m, has a huge slush fund she spends like a drunken sailor, and refuses to see that DOGE correctly identified $400 million in misspent funds
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@MayorDaniella The Miami-Dade budget is $13.23 billion. It sounds like this is a spending problem that can easily fixed by a competent executive. One that actually cares about the people of Miami-Dade County.
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I believe in tax relief. I have fought for it my entire career.
But there is a profound difference between thoughtful tax relief and what is being proposed in Tallahassee right now. Eliminating property taxes is not a tax cut. It is a tax shift that could cost Miami-Dade nearly $697 million over two years, putting Fire Rescue, Jackson Health, Libraries, Parks, Transit, and other essential services at risk for the 2.7 million residents who rely on them every day.
Miami-Dade and all Floridians deserve better.
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@garrettshanley All this does is prevent them from cutting spending. Prioritize schools/police first and spend whatever is left on other things
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UPDATE: Republican leaders in the House and Senate have filed amendments to DeSantis’ property tax proposal that would protect school taxes.
Miami Herald@MiamiHerald
South Florida schools would lose $1b under DeSantis’ tax plan, analysis finds miamiherald.com/news/local/edu…
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60% of homestead properties will be completely exempt from property taxes under the new Save Our Homes, yet the remaining local government revenue would be the equivalent of 2024 levels — which is still a massive increase over 2019 levels.
And yet Save Our Homes creates a state fund that will provide grants to local governments for public safety, education and other core services.
Ron DeSantis@RonDeSantis
Local governments took $32 billion in property taxes in 2019. Today, they are taking $60 billion. Meanwhile, at the state level, Florida has reduced spending four years in a row — even though we’ve had both inflation and population growth. Exempting homesteads can be done. And it it will help millions of Floridians.
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So, I did exactly what you asked and I sat down and read ALL 261 pages of your bill.
It does support mass amnesty and I'll tell you exactly where:
Pages 162-170... The Dream Act:
You grant conditional lawful permanent resident status to ILLEGAL ALIENS who:
>Have been continuously present in the U.S. since January 1, 2021
>Entered before age 18
>Meet education, employment, or military service requirements
>Pass criminal background checks
On top of this, in Sec. 2102(b)(3)(B), DACA recipients get fast-tracked to conditional green card status.
...which is literally mass amnesty
BUT THE BILL GOES EVEN FURTHER!!!
On pages 204-217, you present the Dignity Program:
This is a separate track for illegal aliens who don't qualify for the Dream Act.
If you are an illegal aliens who:
> Was continuously present since December 31, 2020
>Pay a $1,000 upfront "restitution" fee
>Submit biometrics, pass a background check
>No felony convictions
You get work authorization + travel authorization + deferred removal for 7 years
After completing the 7-year program (paying $7,000 total in fees, staying employed, obeying laws, paying back taxes):
We grant you:
> "Dignity Status" which is essentially a lawful nonimmigrant status, which is renewable any number of times
>Work and travel authorization
But the most important bit that you're hiding here is that it totally suspends deportation of anyone who qualifies for this.
This would effective end ALL MASS DEPORTATIONS in the United States immediately.
You are a liar, you are a fraud, everything you stand for is fake... did YOU read your own bill?
Because I just did, and you are a damned LIAR!!!!!
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Sigh. Trump is endorsing based on Wiles. Florida voters do not see Donalds good for the state as he: failed to support DeSantis for years, failed to listen o his own constituents when he pushed trulieve, ai data centers, theft threshold, missed voting, coattails everything. @POTUS got this very wrong. Better to not endorse than to lose when we #rejectdonalds
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He literally just endorsed a black guy…
Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom
MAGA hates Black political power so much they just canceled the election results in Alabama to erase another Black district from the map. Voter suppression.
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@CaroCastilloCC @GovRonDeSantis @RonDeSantis Miami Dade politicians are trying to save their slush fund accounts… spending on their special agenda items… fear lingering about schools and police rather than cutting their spending and prioritizing spending.
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“You don’t need to tax anybody’s homestead in Miami-Dade.” — @GovRonDeSantis
Save the hard working middle class.
Miami! Stop 🛑 listening to dumb elite Miami-Dade politicians trying to save their own age demographic and start listening to @RonDeSantis 👇 follow my thread.
Carolina Castillo@CaroCastilloCC
Homeownership should NOT be limited to one generation. 🚨Miami-Dade🚨 Are Miami Commissioner Vicki Lopez and her bestie, Miami-Dade mayor Daniella Levine Cava, simply advocating for themselves (primarily senior citizens ) instead of ALL homeowners? Why do they continue to push homestead tax relief focused solely on senior citizens while younger families are left behind—families working to buy homes, raise children, build stability, and create generational wealth! Even Commissioner Oliver Gilbert pushes back, at the end of this video (from a few weeks back), emphasizes that Commissioner Vicki Lopez (69) and Mayor Daniella Levine Cava (70) should recognize that being on a fixed income does not automatically mean being low-income… (that one seems to be directed at them 👀) ✅ young families deserve a fair shot to achieve the American dream ❌ stop the overspending in Miami-Dade—on mediocre staffers who are paid 425k+ a yr. ❌ end the misadministration of tax payer funds‼️ ❌ end fraud and corruption 👇 Full video below—you can tell Daniella Levine Cava and Vicki Lopez have already worked out their own numbers before this meeting. 👇 Why discriminate against the younger generation? I’m concerned.
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The Broward School District is grossly bloated, had falling enrollment due to lowered immigration, has schools that are underutilized and could be consolidated, and the staffing (not teachers and support press) has long been considered equally bloated and over paid. And again, the counties are directed to prioritize police:schools etc first from the taxes collected and then cut their damn spending! Why is this so hard to understand that the status quo of today’s spending cannot go on
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Florida’s property tax reform will destroy public schools.
Holly Bullard@HollyBullardFL
“The Broward School District would lose $294 million in the first year, or 13.1%. In the second year, the losses would increase to $455 million, or 20.2%.” $455M !!! Broward JUST laid off 300 teachers and left 700 positions open bc of a $90 budget deficit. $455M = 5000 TEACHERS
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@ShadowofEzra No one will take the vaccine unless they are stupid enough not to demand full disclosure of the huge trials that have been conducted on all demographics.
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Fox News confirms Pfizer already has a vaccine ready to prevent infections from tick bites, which is considered "safe and effective."
The vaccine is expected to be released in the next few months, and they believe they will get "a lot of use out of it."
Pfizer frequently purchases commercial advertising space on Fox News.
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Every one of these examples of how schools and police are to be cut ignore the very premise of the move to cut property taxes: the taxes collected from all other sources should FIRST go to fund schools/police/etc. in conjunction with fiscal responsibility that cuts the special agendas and slush funds spent by these politicians
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Just got the Property Appraiser's analysis.
The upcoming property tax proposal would cut the MSTU that funds the Alachua County Sheriff's Office by roughly 35%.
That's a 35% hit to the tax base that pays for local law enforcement. That’s defunding the police:
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@HollyBullardFL Now how do you think the governments of this districts could make up the difference? Could they possibly read the proposal and apply tax dollars to schools, police, fire/first responders FIRST, and then to their special agenda items?
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“The $250k homestead exemption would cost school districts $5 billion annually, according to .. the nonpartisan (FPI).FPI also said in many fiscally constrained rural counties, due to the lower assessed value of properties,a $250k homestead exemption is close to full elimination”
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@ActionNewsJax A scary place due to lost revenues. How about addressing cutting spending that has been proven to be exorbitant
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‘We’re in a pretty scary spot’: Local leaders get glance at impacts of Governor’s property tax plan #Echobox=1780215193" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">actionnewsjax.com/news/local/wer…
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@stormrobinson @jbellontheriver As I said… you are just sooo smart. And ignored the context of my post responding to your printing analysis to ridicule responding to emails. I can only conclude this is a clickbait account seeking monetization. Good luck.
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@jbellontheriver @learnb4speaking Most salaried professionals are in the office 9+ hours a day, 250+ days a year and don’t get paid overtime for meetings, email, and work travel that often happens outside their 9-hour workday.
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A janitor cleans the classroom every night so there can’t be too much involved in “setting up the room.” Let’s say it takes two minutes to turn on the lights, open the blinds, and erase the white board. That leaves 58 minutes left to print papers and “mentally prepare for the day.”
The average Xerox printer prints 45-65 pages per minute. Let’s be conservative and assume the school printer is on the low end and only prints 45 pages per minute. Let’s also assume it takes 2 minutes to open the files on a computer and push print. We’re left with 56 minutes in the hour which is enough time to print a maximum of 2,520 pages. Over the 180 working days in the academic year, that sums to 453,600 sheets of paper, or about 907 reams. On average, a mature tree yields about 16.67 reams of paper. That means this one teacher is consuming up to 54.4 trees per school year depending on how much time he allocates to “mentally preparing for the day” and whether or not that mental prep can be done concurrently with his printing tasks.
The more likely scenario, he spends a combined total of 10 minutes “setting up the room” and printing papers and the remaining 50 minutes “mentally preparing for the day” and thinks he should get paid overtime for it.
I disagree.
Ken | The Real Marvel Teacher 🍎@MarvelTeacher2
Things #Teachers don’t talk about: That unpaid hour before school where you’re setting up the room, printing papers, and trying to mentally prepare for the day.
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Such a disingenuous post. I live in Miami and am well advised as to the excessive spending on special agenda items that pandering politicians support in their bid for constant reelection. Our police, schools, first responders etc. should be the first funded and the rest can suck lemons as we have the money.. just not the budget.. they would allow for property taxes to be eliminated.
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Property tax cuts sound great — until your city can’t fund schools or police | Opinion miamiherald.com/opinion/editor…
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To be honest, my kids did half day kindergarten and were reading. Perhaps it’s the daycare focus of all day kindergarten rather than solid phonetic instruction? Example: my daughter could read at a first grade level, identify all of the buildings and architects of the Chicago skyline, tell the difference between a Monet and a Manet and find them in the museum, tell you the names of the planets and characteristics in order, draw a cell, and multiply/divide up to 10 doing mad minutes of math. Art and music were part of their classes. This was a public school, one had the morning session (home for lunch) one had afternoon. They had no tests or quizzes or homework. Probably should mention this was 25 years ago. And no we didn’t use prek3 or 4.
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This is why I requested that my boys remain one extra year in "all day kindergarten". They weren't reading on-level, but that was "okay" to move to first grade. 🤔 Nope. I told them I would sign the necessary paperwork. We moved from PA to TN, bc they were behind with "half-day kindergarten". Guess what? It did help them!
Jen@jenteach13
Somewhere in America right now, a middle school is promoting a student to high school who cannot read. An elementary school passed them first. Everyone was nice about it. Nobody helped.
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.@FloridaPolicy warns proposed homestead exemption changes will cost billions
Reporting by @DrewDixon30
#FlaPol
floridapolitics.com/archives/79924…
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And this doubling has given them even larger slush finds to pander to special interest groups while looking towards reelection. First start by divesting commissioners of their discretionary annual funds, lower the threshold for mayor funds allowed to be bestowed (always under the guise of “today WE gave xyz this amount), and require a complete audit of where/how these recipient have spent the $$ and what kickback/payback each received. Was a theater named after them—social media boosts etc
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Accurate.
The Ghost@revolt777
@jhaskinscabrera Local governments in Florida have nearly doubled their property tax hauls—from $32 billion in 2019 to around $60 billion now. That’s an enormous sum built on paper valuations and unrealized gains, not actual cash in people’s pockets. It’s long past time to recalibrate to reality
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@FLVoiceNews @ByronDonalds Donalds and his wife are not educators and their plan is hardly novel.
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Trump-endorsed @ByronDonalds unveiled a new education proposal that would give every Florida student a personalized academic and career roadmap starting no later than sixth grade
Donalds’ plan would support multiple pathways to success, including college, trade school, military service, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurship
flvoicenews.com/byron-donalds-…
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I don’t whine. I know the difference I make. I took exception to the only nite you made being printing and then negated the actual reason I go in early. As for emails to teachers… of an issue arises, I call parents between classes and during lunch. Sending me an email at 11 pm because your 18 year old senior didn’t turn in an assignment and then another at 9 am because I didn’t respond? 🙄🤔
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A White female doctor in Georgia was strangled, se*ually assaulted, then had her THROAT SLIT by a Black man with 40+ PREVIOUS CHARGES.
ZERO coverage from:
-NYT
-CNN
-WaPo
-MSNBC
-NPR
-Reuters
-Axios
-ABC
-PBS
EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. COVERED. GEORGE. FLOYD.
DO YOU GET IT YET?!!!
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