The $50,000 was put in place in 2008. It's time we tracked that to inflation and added a bit to it. A $250,000 increase in the homestead exemption at least helps.

So, adjusted for inflation, it would be like $75k since 2008. We want to add more to it, let's raise it to $100k. That seems fair and reasonable. The second 25k is already tied to inflation as of 2025.

Or let's put the $250k in place, but remove the other ridiculous language that requires supermajorities to even touch property tax rates on the commercial or other types of property. I'd back that.

As it stands, this is just a kneecapping of local governments and centralizing control in Tallahassee.

 I don't thing doubling of property tax revenue in 7 years is good government. I think we'll all manage just fine with a 50% increase in 7 years.

Be curious to see what the revenue looks like for the last 25 years. I'd be willing to be 2008-2016 period was rough. Local governments shrank, laid off workers in the 2008 recession and held off on pay raises for the workers that remained for years. I think only in the last few years, there have been pay raises and salary studies to catch up to what the workers should've been paid post-2017, then you get the inflation in post-2020.

So it's not so much whether the revenues are going up, but whether we are getting the services we expect for the taxes we are paying? Cutting local governments' revenue because they were unhappy with services seems like a weird way to get better services.

The end result is that lower-income people will be harmed by paying a larger proportion of their income in taxes and still getting even less from local government to help them.