It’s Time for Florida to Win at Everything – Top 3 Takeaways, November 14th, 2025
Takeaway #1: It’s time to win everything.
Yesterday I brought you the remarkable news about the extent to which Florida has won over the past decade and also why there’s every indication we’ll continue to win into the future. Great decision making by us. Mamdani-Commie sized bad decision making by them. In case you missed it...a new study showed the extent to which Florida has flourished at the expense of high tax states over the past decade. Florida’s net migration has resulted in a bump of over $1 trillion in income to our state...the second closest was Texas at $290 billion gained. To put that into perspective, Florida's current fiscal year budget is $117 billion. In other words, just the impact of the income we’ve recruited into our state through great policy (and geography) over the past decade is the equivalent of what it takes to run our state for 8.5 years! But we could do better. The Tax Foundation just released their State Tax Competitiveness rankings for 2026. Where do you think Florida ranks? We’re #5. Why? Which area of taxation do you think Florida ranks lowest in comparison to states across the country? Here’s a hint...it’s currently a huge hot button...that’s right – property taxes. Florida’s lack of a state income tax ties us for first with the smattering of other no-income tax states and our state is well within the top 20 states in all other tax categories, we’re lowest, at #20, with property taxes. Since when has Florida settled for only being about mid-pack at anything? It’s time for Florida to win at everything including the total tax burden imposed by state and local governments. And aside from the fact that I want Florida to win at everything (and I’ll never get tired of it) - there’s a highly instructive point that comes along with the Tax Foundation’s study amid our property tax debate. For those who will say that local governments can’t afford to go without homestead property tax revenue (which is demonstrably false as I’ve repeatedly evidenced), riddle me with this question.
Takeaway #2: Why is it that four other states have total tax burdens that are lower than Florida’s?
Clearly, it can be done. What’s more is this. One of the related, and also inaccurate, arguments is that Florida’s property tax burdens will naturally be higher because the state doesn’t generate money that’s passed through without a state income tax. Only that’s also provably untrue. One of the other states without income tax (South Dakota), ranks 8th in property tax burdens while also ranking first for having the lowest corporate tax burden too. And my point in mentioning this – is twofold. First, everything every opponent of ending homesteaded property taxes in Florida argues can’t be done, has already been done to a large degree somewhere else. Second, over the past decade Florida has been number one in almost everything – including the remarkable amount of income and business migration into our state that’s greater than three times what any other state has done.
Takeaway #3: There simply is no excuse for why four other states have total tax burdens that are lower than Florida’s.
We have all of the economic power, and subsequent revenue generation to be #1 for the lowest tax burden – but we won’t get there when 19 other states impose lower property taxes than what we pay. And here’s the next related and highly instructive point. As Florida’s economy, education and economic policies have continued to improve – what has that led record setting numbers of people to do? To move here and often with their businesses. So, if Florida produced best-in-the-nation taxation, on top of what we already do, what do you think the impact economically would be? There’s absolutely no doubt that the additional income and revenue generation would far more than compensate for revenues not generated for local governments through the imposition of onerous property taxes. What we have in front of us is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take a big swing to truly own our homes and permanently improve affordability. Governor DeSantis is right about this, just as he’s been right on all of his other major swings. Let me ask you. How many people really thought the K-12 education curriculum in this state would truly be completely reformed? How many people really thought Florida, a perennial bottom ten state in education, would be the national leader ranking number one for education in back-to-back years? How many people thought DeSantis was right when after a month of lockdowns during COVID he reopened the state? How many people thought he was right to fight the teachers' unions and force education back into classrooms? How many people thought universal school choice was possible and affordable? How many people thought that you could build a bridge in a week after a hurricane, or take over Everglades Restoration from the federal government? How many people thought that Florida would go from being the laughingstock of how to run elections, to the best run system in the nation? How many people thought DeSantis could take on woke companies like Disney over detrimental DEI policies and win? How many people said the state’s industries would collapse with E-Verify and tough immigration laws? How many people said it was politically impossible to protect life through a ban on abortions at six weeks when there’s a heartbeat? And I’ll point out that is a highly pared down list of examples. There’s a common thread that runs through all of these. There’s always been a bunch of people, often even a majority of people, who’ve said we couldn’t do those things. We’ve done them and it’s how and why we’ve won as a state. Now, those same people say we can’t eliminate homesteaded property taxes too. So, the question is, who do you believe? More to the point, who has the most credibility on this issue? Governor DeSantis or the local government fools who often opposed him on the policy that led to all of those accomplishments? You don’t win by chance. You don’t achieve success to significance without greatness. It’s time for Florida to win at everything. It’s what Governor DeSantis has proposed that we do. It’s something that’s demonstrably possible for us to do. So, the question is who will you support? What is it you will support? The answer should be obvious.