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The Florida Legislature convened for a special session this week and passed Gov. Ron DeSantis proposal to put a gradual elimination of homestead property taxes on November’s ballot. As a legislator who represents a vibrant, diverse community in South Florida, I could not in good conscience support this measure. I voted “no” because the math does not add up and Floridians deserve honesty, not political theater.
Florida is already one of nine states in the United States without an income tax.
On the surface, getting rid of such property taxes might appeal to Floridians across the political spectrum. We all deserve affordability and the ability to make ends meet without taking on crushing debt or working multiple jobs just to stay afloat. Like Americans across the country, the people in Florida face an affordability crisis as the cost of groceries, housing, healthcare, gas and other everyday expenses continues to skyrocket.
Every single person in the communities I serve is feeling the pressure of rising costs, and I take that seriously. But this resolution does not solve that problem — it shifts it. It takes the financial burden off property owners and quietly drops it on the backs of renters and the most vulnerable communities we serve.
Republicans across the country, including many here in Florida, have talked for so long about lowering taxes or eliminating taxes that they seem to have forgotten that taxes pay for things that people need and that getting rid of taxes in such a haphazard way will cause pain for individuals and local governments across the state.
Under this measure, local governments across the state, including those in Miami-Dade County and across South Florida, stand to lose billions in revenue. That revenue pays for police and fire protection, public health services, infrastructure and the community programs that working families count on. The state’s constitutional prohibition on cutting first responder funding changes the basic fiscal reality: When you eliminate a tax base, someone else pays. And there’s no solution in place to make up for this massive loss and the impact it will have on communities and residents’ daily lives.
My district is home to hardworking families, seniors on fixed incomes, renters who will never see a dime of this tax break and small business owners who are already navigating an extremely difficult economic climate. They are not asking for a constitutional amendment that most benefits the wealthiest homeowners. They are asking for real, targeted relief that addresses the actual affordability crisis without gutting the services that keep our communities safe and functioning.
Property tax reform that is sustainable, equitable and helps the Floridians who need it most would get my support, but that’s not what this plan is.
When you eliminate a tax base, someone else pays.
We can expect Gov. DeSantis and his allies to paint this resolution as “cost saving,” but if the state’s voters approve the constitutional amendment in November, the shift in tax burdens will hit many Floridians’ pocketbooks hard.
Florida is already navigating the aftermath of devastating hurricane seasons the past few years, with communities still rebuilding and local governments stretched thin. To introduce a structural revenue shock of this magnitude, one that disproportionately benefits high-value homeowners in wealthier zip codes isn’t just bad policy but a choice about whose recovery matters.
Just like the hype that surrounded Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill last year, we have seen this playbook before: A headline-grabbing tax cut gets framed as relief for everyday families while the fine print tells a different story. The president, for example has focused on the law’s provision on allowing certain tax filers who get paid tips to not pay taxes on them, but the law overwhelmingly benefits the country’s wealthiest Americans.
DeSantis wants to do away with home property taxes. Florida cities are alarmed. But special districts are more so. Mosquito abatement districts which receive all their funding from property taxes. Welcome back malaria!
Similarly, the exemption headed to Florida’s ballot helps those with the highest-value homes while, say, a senior renting a modest apartment would see nothing. A working family leasing a home would see nothing as the county budget that funds their children’s after-school programs, their neighborhood’s road repairs and their emergency services absorbs the blow.
Extreme anti-tax strategies like this are anything but “fiscally responsible.” The hidden cost is paid in crumbling roads, understaffed fire stations and shuttered public libraries — the very infrastructure that holds communities together. When revenue is deliberately starved from local governments, it isn’t abstract bureaucracies that suffer. It is the elderly neighbor who can no longer afford the ambulance response time that doubled, the child whose school lost its reading specialist and the small business owner whose street floods every rainy afternoon because the drainage system went unrepaired for a decade. A community that guts its own foundations doesn’t liberate its people — it auctions off their shared future to the highest bidder, leaving everyone else to pay the real price.
George Souflias in 2009, weeks before his retirement from active politics. Credit: Katerina Mavrona, AMNA
George Souflias, a prominent figure in Greek politics and a long-serving cabinet minister for the center-right New Democracy party, died at the age of 85, it was made public late on Friday evening. Known for his long political career across multiple key ministries and his two bids for the New Democracy (ND) party leadership, Souflias leaves behind an impressive political record spanning over three decades. He had reportedly been facing several health challenges in his final years that led to his death on Friday.
Who Was Souflias
Born on July 7, 1941, during the German Nazi occupation, in the village of Agia Triada in the Farsala municipality of Thessaly, Souflias initially built a career far from politics. He earned a degree in civil engineering from the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. By 1967, he had established his own design and construction firm in the central Greek city of Larissa, working extensively in the private sector prior to his transition to public service.
His political career launched alongside the restoration of Greek democracy following the junta of 1967–1974. As a candidate for the ND party, Souflias was first elected to the Greek Parliament representing the Larissa constituency in 1974. He quickly established a formidable local stronghold, securing re-election in 11 subsequent national contests: 1977, 1981, 1985, both the June and November elections of 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, 2004, 2007, and finally in 2009.
Throughout his parliamentary tenure, Souflias was entrusted by party leaders and prime ministers with some of the most critical portfolios in the Greek government. He began his executive service as Deputy Minister of the Interior under Prime Ministers Konstantinos Karamanlis and Georgios Rallis. His influence grew significantly in subsequent administrations. During the Tzannetakis government in 1989 and the later Mitsotakis one between 1990 and 1993, he served as Minister of National Economy. He also held the cabinet positions of Minister of Finance, Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs, and Minister of Environment, Physical Planning, and Public Works (ΥΠΕΧΩΔΕ).
Within the center-right ND party, Souflias was a powerful internal factional leader, mounting two high-profile campaigns for the party leadership. He challenged Miltiades Evert for the leadership in 1996 and subsequently ran against Kostas Karamanlis during the party’s fourth congress in 1997. Both bids were ultimately unsuccessful. Political friction eventually led to his formal expulsion from New Democracy in 1998. The rupture proved temporary, and he was readmitted to the party ranks in 2001, resuming his position as a senior conservative official.
Although he was re-elected as a Member of Parliament for Larissa, he chose to resign his seat immediately. His retirement came amid heavy internal party criticism, as Souflias had been the primary proponent of calling the 2009 snap elections, a strategic decision that resulted in a severe electoral defeat for ND and the landslide election of the center-left PASOK party under George Papandreou, only months before the beginning of the Greek financial crisis. Following the loss, he accepted the political fallout and permanently withdrew from active politics.
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