Well, somebody finally “defunded the Police”. It wasn’t the lefties.
Miami Herald has some apocalyptic reporting on the results of a Florida ballot initiative from last week. The initiative would change the way property owners pay taxes, increasing the Homestead exemption to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028. The move is being called a “severe blow” to local governments.
The Herald quoted Broward County Commissioner Steve Geller as saying, “I advise people to move to another state because Florida is going to be a hellhole,….We’re going to be underwater.”
Underwater, because crucial flood control efforts rely on property taxes, which will now be cut radically.
Local property taxes fund critical services for Floridians—from drinking water supply and water quality improvements to land conservation. Local emergency response and protection from flooding are also funded by property taxes. The loss of revenue to local governments and water management districts will have severe, negative impacts on Floridians’ quality of life.
The Florida Legislature is now tasked with developing a plan to allow local governments and special districts (such as water management districts) to further reduce property taxes up to full elimination of all homestead property taxes.
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The Nature Conservancy quotes the Office of Economic and Demographic Research (EDR), of the Florida Legislature that $12 Billion will be lost for critical local services and natural resources by 2030, and $200 Million lost by 2030 to maintain infrastructure that provides clean drinking water for millions of Floridians.
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According to the Herald report, Broward County could lose $333 million of its budget by 2028, and Miami-Dade would eventually lose 700 million annually.
South Florida, which administers an Everglades restoration project, will lose massive revenues, all the more destructive because much funding relies on 50/50 match with the Federal Government, according to the Herald report.
Amendment opponents said the revenue cuts will force Police and Fire services to trim budgets, resulting in, for instance, longer response times to 911 calls.
In an interview on NewsMax, below, Occupy Democrat’s Grant Stern pointed out that “Florida’s Sheriffs associations came out against Amendment 3 because it would cut their funding.”
Watch the paleo conservatives on Newsmax absolutely lose their minds when Stern points out that Florida is now the national leader to “Defund the Police.”
Meanwhile…above average reporting here on this year’s spectacular flooding in South Florida, amped by continuing Sea Level Rise.
According to the report, “On October 27, 2026, the Virginia Key tide gauge in Miami reached 2.54 feet above the normal high tide, third highest since the gauge began in 1994, behind only Hurricane Wilma and Hurricane Irma.”