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There are property tax and

trkingmomoe — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 04:21:15 +0000

In reply to I am confused. Florida does

There are property tax and sales tax. Businesses are also charged impact fees and service fees.

During the late 1990's, Florida froze property taxes to be only raised 3% a year on homestead property. It was put on the state ballot to help JEB win his election. It passed with a super majority but is an unfair system. Any home owner at that time would not face higher property increases over 3% a year. Great little pony give away at the time for home stead property owners. You have to own your property and live in it for 3 years to get homestead statues. This protects your property from loosing it to bankruptcy.

This has many problems. One of them business don't get homestead. The distribution of taxes are higher for new home owners rental and businesses. It sounded so great to the 25% of the population of retirees at the time Now Florida has 16% of the population is retirees. You buy a home that has the same appraised value as the house next door only that family has been there for 20 years and the owner that you are buying from has been there just as long you will find you are going to pay 5 times more in property taxes that they did. It can turn out to be the biggest part of your house payment. Rental property and business property pay rates higher then they would if everyone paid the same. So depending on when you bought your home depends on what rate you pay.

I see no reason to give tax breaks on business and high end homes unless you fix the unfairness of the system or bring in a income tax to balance the fairness of tax burden.

Rick Scott promised to bring in Medicaid and voter suppression was the reason he won. The northern end of the state still have people who have bed sheets hanging in their closets. It is known as the plantation belt of Florida.

"Excellent article, BTW, and

barefooted — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:02:24 +0000

In reply to I am confused. Florida does

"Excellent article, BTW, and extremely well-written and put together."

I second that wholeheartedly.

I am confused. Florida does

CVille Dem — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 21:13:25 +0000

In reply to Republicans Split Over Medicaid Expansion in Florida

I am confused. Florida does not have a state income tax, so how can they cut what doesn't exist? I am also confused about something else: How could anyone in their right mind vote for Rick Scott?

Excellent article, BTW, and extremely well-written and put together.

Just wait until open season

trkingmomoe — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 07:04:49 +0000

In reply to They just give me this in my

Just wait until open season every fall, you will get tons of mail again.

I am glad you are not on meds now. I forget that I have known you for 5+ years. And things do change.

I am hoping that the upper chamber in this state continues to push for Medicaid and lets the budget fall apart. This is worth letting the state shut down. School will be out then so it won't effect me much. People are dying so it is worth a shut down to save them.

They just give me this in my

Richard Day — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 04:41:00 +0000

In reply to Have you done part D yet?

They just give me this in my state.

I am covered and I have not taken one drug in two years?

I am covered.

You know, I received five hundred pages in information from the government in the last four weeks.

It is all good.

I could use some dental.

But it is all gooooooooooooood.

What I am taking from all

trkingmomoe — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 04:00:22 +0000

In reply to The GOP arithmetic is if they

What I am taking from all this is that there is big cracks and division in the GOP. This is a hopeful sign that they are losing ground with voters. They are not all in lock step.

We face voter suppression

trkingmomoe — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:26:31 +0000

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We face voter suppression here. It is expensive to renew your driver license if you came from out of state. Depending on how many documents you have to get from out of state courthouses. It can be quite expensive if you are a women and have been married more then once because you have to trace your name back to your birth certificate with court and marriage documents. It did have an effect in the midterms. It sounded good to Republican voters to make everyone have ID's but what most did not bargain for was the cost and time for themselves to get everything together. I hear a lot of complaints on that because they are now facing renewal. I was lucky because I only had one husband and it still cost me with documents $125 to renew my driver license. Men only have to produce a birth certificate and proof of residency. This has been effective in this state in the last election. This is a one time ordeal so once you have done this you don't have to do it every time. How effective will it be in future elections? Not as much because people will eventually get it together economically to be able to keep driving and to vote. Women will keep their maiden names.

In Florida the elderly

trkingmomoe — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:55:15 +0000

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In Florida the elderly retirees depend on Medicaid to help cover nursing home care. Most out live their savings and there isn't much left to pass on to the kids, so Medicaid recovery law don't matter after they are gone. People will not move here to retire if they know that there is limited Medicaid or none at all.

Hospitals have made it clear that they have set costs and a drop in revenue means a cut in services like ER and heart trauma centers. Trauma Centers will be hundred miles away and patients will be life flighted. Which will add to cost and risk.

Florida Blue, which is Blue Cross and Blue Shield, is pushing hard for a Medicaid expansion and have a team of lobbyists in Tallahassee. I don't see the lower chamber sticking together on this for too long following the ideologues. The glue that has held the GOP in Florida has been racism the last 7 years. The price for that is getting expensive and these idiots will still be in office after a new president has taken office.

Have you done part D yet?

trkingmomoe — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:03:54 +0000

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Have you done part D yet? Make sure you check all the plans in your area to see if they cover your meds. You can do that on the part D site on your computer. Not all plans cover everything. You have to figure out what your best option.

This is complicated.

Richard Day — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:54:52 +0000

In reply to Republicans Split Over Medicaid Expansion in Florida

This is complicated.

I go from Medicaid to Medicare in eight days.

I lose $105 a month on Medicare.

Supposedly I get a break on my subsidized housing. But so far that amounts to ten bucks?

I have to pay my fair share?

But it is a big deal when I lose ten percent of my monies that I paid for.

I will survive.