Property taxes in Florida are skyrocketing.
- Duval county has seen a 57% increase in tax receipts since 2020.
- Orange county also saw a 57% increase in tax receipts since 2020.
- Hillsborough county’s budget has grown 70% since 2019.
- Gainesville property owners pay 85% more in property taxes than in 2020.
The population of the state of Florida has increased the most of any US state, but the increase in population was still only 8.2% since 2020. Where is all of the money going?
Taxpayers are being fleeced. Ripped off to pay for DEI, illegal immigrants, and for government employees to groom your children to turn them into twinks and trannies. Enough is enough.
9 Comments
Boneman · August 4, 2025 at 4:57 am
I was in Kissimmee a week or so back and was thunderstruck hearing how there was this budget shortfall being reported and how the roads were going to suffer a bit. How on earth… with the amount of money POURING in to that area pursuant to tourism (resort fees, hotel taxe, etc.) could that even be possible?
Same thing in Lee County. How is that possible as well? Just the amount of fees collected pursuant to construction permits, etc. has to be astronomical.
Yeah, we need our own DOGE division right here FFS. Gotta wonder if they’re trying to ramp up a whine festival to push for a State Income Tax or some BS like that.
oldvet50 · August 4, 2025 at 6:17 am
Of course, I don’t have the numbers to back this up but… the first thing I thought of was that article you wrote about the ‘Save Our Homes’ law that limits tax increases on existing homeowners in Florida. Also the fact it was transferable to any house you might buy as a new homestead. It seems to follow that these exorbitant tax increases would apply to transplants from other states (a good thing), but also to first time home buyers like our kids (a bad thing). Perhaps the SOH law can be modified to cover FL residents’ children? We need to discourage Florida’s population growth before we run out of everything essential for life, water being the most precious.
Divemedic · August 4, 2025 at 7:43 am
I don’t think that SOH is a fair system- nor are any tax carve outs. The same should apply to everyone. That doesn’t mean I won’t take advantage of what’s there, but I do think that our nation’s entire tax system is intentionally rigged in favor of all sorts of special interests.
SoCoRuss · August 4, 2025 at 11:00 am
Thanks for this one.
Don’t take this wrong but it does me good to hear this crap is everywhere. I don’t feel so alone in a shitshow…
beans · August 4, 2025 at 1:11 pm
And who’s in power in all of those places? If you say ‘democrats’ then you are correct.
Honk Honk · August 4, 2025 at 1:17 pm
Yankee snowbirds will ruin the place?
Pappy said you could drive your on the beach and into the ocean if you felt like it back in the 1945-1973 days.
A Long March Fundamental Transformation, yes we can!
MrLiberty · August 4, 2025 at 2:11 pm
Government is the greatest evil ever created by man. All the explanation needed.
Sailor Paul · August 5, 2025 at 1:13 am
Property tax has driven my mortgage up in Palm Beach county over $1000 a month since 2020.
I was fortunate to avoid buying in The Acreage west of West Palm. An unorganized township with municipal .gov? Yes please… until the New Yorkers moved in post-covid and started canvassing and politicking to create a town .gov, run by them, ‘to protect our interests’ and suddenly owner operators can’t have a tractor-trailer on their land, the WWII era community gun range is a problem, and the lack of sidewalks is suddenly a crisis.
God I hate them all.
Lemmy · August 8, 2025 at 2:10 pm
You are 100% correct. In suburban Houston, we have a populace that will vote for anything that has the term ISD (independent school district) in it. Billions of dollars in bonds every 2 years, to tackle “growth.” The measures are always written to say your tax RATE will not increase. State law caps annual increases at 10% a year. Which, without fail, the assessor hits, every year. Oil crash, hundreds of thousands of jobs evaporate in Houston? They no care. They will get their money. They also mail out property tax notices (to those that don’t escrow) in December (right after elections!) which clearly lay out their intent. My last house was scheduled to increase in value 40% over 4 years. Sorry, $25k a year in property taxes was uncomfortable, but $40k was just a non starter.
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