Rubio to discuss taxes; no weekend session

House Speaker Marco Rubio has called a 1 p.m. news conference on property taxes. The Miami Republican, who has been pushing for deeper cuts, is expected to announce ways to beef up Gov. Charlie Crist's proposal.

The legislation will be distributed Friday after the budget vote. Lawmakers will take the weekend off and return on Monday. The now-extended session is scheduled to go until Oct. 22.

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Here we go. Better than Tebow getting messages on his cell from LSU fans will be the musings on this blog.

If recurring G/R is so short, why not ban all sales tax "holidays" in the coming session.

UhOoo... the "Punk in Man Clothes" wants some attention!

Junior bloglobbyists and EOG/House staff must be at Andrews or Paradigm, 20 minutes and only three posts. "Why don't they name one of these tasty wraps for my boss?"

Maybe they're all in the men's room for a tap lesson.

Of course there won't be a session this weekend. You didn't actually expect these people to put in any extra time, did you?

You are kidding, right? Isn't this the third/fourth special session this year? such slackers...

Ellyn, Adam Hasner and Marco look like they are handing out senior superlatives today, and they just lost best-looking.

We need a major structural change in the tax system.

How about a tax on services dedicaded to funding education?

Real Estate taxes would drop by 30-40% across the board - homesteads, businesses, rentals, second homes.

Burden of education would be spread across the largest and biggest sector of our economy. Low tax rate because broad tax base.

No tax increase. Strictly revenue nuetral. Taking the tax burden for education off real estate and spreading over the largest, and currently tax-exempt, part of the Florida economy.

It would work if someone had the guts to try it. What they are talking about now is just tinkering.

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Gosh, and gee willikers… we’ins really thunk Chuck and the boys was fixin ta give us’ins a tax’m break, jest follerin they’s fixin of the insurance prenimums… whut in boone’s swaller foller happened?

Shoot fire… an I rented a new leisure suit fer my chillins weddin to each’n udder, figerin I git 12 smackers back in a tax’m break on my singlewide, from Chuck an those fancy fellers in Talamahacchee.

… ummm, Buahahahahahaaaaaaaa…. Whoooo, you Fleridiuns are shure fire stoooopid… haahahahahahahaaaaa…. Oh, that’s too much… you actually thought you’d get something from these sh*t-fer-brains in Talamahachee… Hahahahahahahaaaaaa….. whoooooo, that’s rich… hahahahahaaaaa…….

As the special sessions rack up, do you think it is time to start thinking about having a full time legislator. Then they would know when they would be in Tally

Hell no, 2:54… can you imagine how much damage these self-serving idiots could do to our lives if they had more time?… I say give them a week at best, then kick their a*ses out if they can’t accomplish anything.

You don't necessarily need a tax on services but get rid of some of the ridiculous sales tax exemptions on the books.

This proposal will hardly lower property taxes. It is clearly a "TALLAHASSEE SPECIAL" so they can pat themselves on the back and declare victory. Speaker of the House Marco Rubio needs to block this proposal. Either do it right or not at all.

If this gets passed, they need to rollback taxes in the next regular session. This can be done statutorily & immediately