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If they don’t have a property or wage tax, how are they going to pay for any state or local services? Their sales tax isn’t particularly high… Are they going to try and do it on the backs of tourists and non residents? Risky, as there’s lots of places to go that are warm on the ocean.

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Florida makes its cash from tourism but it is a deceiving because they cut the funding for their services or deny services by downloading the costs to municipalities and so municipalities have to levy taxes.

>Their sales tax isn’t particularly high

Where else is there a real upside?

If it gets real bad the people near the border will shop in neighboring states like anywhere else.

But that rules out most of the well-known coastal destinations where there are no neighboring states.

Realistically a local government should be able to levy a sales tax of some kind on the real estate itself, but perpetual obligations on personal property are not right because it's just too confiscatory in effect, if not intention.

They will continue to have property taxes, but there will be an exemption for lower-valued properties. The article says less than 250K valuation, which basically rules out all the desirable properties in the main urban areas. This is mostly a break for poorer neighborhoods that aren't contributing that much in property tax revenue anyways.

> If they don’t have a property or wage tax, how are they going to pay for any state or local services?

In Iowa, the strategy has just been to gut all state and local services as much as possible, and then run what's left at a deficit while blaming the other side.

Nevada has low sales and property taxes but heavily supplements it with excise and gaming taxes aimed at tourists, so that strategy does work.

Not that well. Nevada is starting to have issues due to the lack of gaming and tourism. It's nothing like it used to be.

Well when the government discourages tourism and arrests non-white folks on site for no reason you’re gonna have a shitty tourist season.

I mean just don’t have that state service.

I’m sure the members of say the Palm Island Home Owners Association don’t want their tax dollars going outside of Palm Island.

I take it you haven’t been to Florida much during election season, Stop Socialism is a common billboard.

You mean that some people don't want to pay for prisons, elderly care, public schools, welfare because they live in Palm Island? If so Palm Island should seek to become a country .

Easy. They're going to rely even more on federal funds, as many red states do. And as long as they keep supporting Trump, he won't threaten to turn off the faucet.

And they'll get even further down the line of "red states scream bloody murder about socialism while being supported by the socialism of blue states".

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