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Imagine a $700,000 homestead exemption. Thats the equivalent of what existed in 1934 when our property tax collections were moved to the cities and counties.
Jonathan Martin
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Jonathan Martin
@JonMartinEsq
State Senator & AV Rated Courtroom Attorney
- Legalizing recreational marijuana will be incredibly lucrative for Personal Injury lawyers like myself. But most of us don’t want to make more money off the injuries or deaths of people hit by impaired drivers. Please vote no on amendment 3.
- Proud to support our great Governor @RonDeSantis Future generations will recognize the transformative policies he ushered in as Governor and how Florida and our country are better off because of what he stood for. #WithDeSantis
- In 2024, Floridians paid $56 Billion to their counties for property taxes. That is $2,400 per PERSON. A family of 4 on average paid $10,000 last year for property taxes.
- I’ll say it again, you can be in favor of recreational marijuana use but Amendment 3 will prevent reasonable restrictions like the one @JoeGruters has filed. Amendment 3 was written to protect a profitable business model. That framework is problematic.
- I will be filing a bill this year in the Florida Senate to make public whether any terrorist, mass murderer, or other unprovoked person was on SSRIs or received hormone therapy at any point in their life. The numerous instances of killing innocent children by those who are
- Earlier today, I shared my support for this with @DrewSteeleRadio on @FLVoiceNews and later with @treyradel on SWFL’s 92.5Today, I called for a special session of the Florida legislature the week of January 27 to prepare Florida to lead on the Trump Administration’s deportation program. We will allocate resources and ensure state and local officials in Florida are supporting these efforts. We have
- You can be pro recreational marijuana and still be against Amendment 3. Amendment 3 is just bad policy. It will tie the hands of the legislature and prevent reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on its use in public. #amendment3
- When property was first taxed thousands of years ago, the property tax was more of an income tax. It taxed what the land produced. Our homestead properties are no longer used for producing income and therefore should not be taxed in that manner.
- If we replaced property tax with a revenue neutral sales tax, people who never directly paid a property tax might think their taxes increased. However, they'd no longer be paying the EMBEDDED property that is built into their rent or other consumer good.
- Replying to @JonMartinEsqThe Amendment specifically allows legislation to prohibit smoking in public or prison of MEDICAL marijuana . MEDICAL marijuana was singled out as being able to be regulated RECREATIONAL marijuana or marijuana in general was not specified.
- Our localities must stop saying they haven’t raised taxes simply because they haven’t raised the millage. We are paying more taxes because they are raising our taxes. I filed a bill to study how we could eliminate property taxes. There are other efforts to lessen the pain ofLet me show you one small counties tax collections on property tax 2021 $14.6 mil 2022 $16.2 mil 2023 $18.8 mil 2024 $20.6 mil How is this fair to the tax payer
- If your auto insurance rates and work comp rates are high now, just wait until Amendment 3 passes and car crashes and work place accidents increase. (See below)
- Some chemicals cause cancer. They have no place in our food. Period.BREAKING: Sen. @JonMartinEsq has filed a bill banning certain chemical additives from food in Florida flvoicenews.com/sen-martin-fil…
