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Greg and Beththe political and personal musings of two
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Florida Constitutional Amendments |
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Gregory Morris, 10/17/08 7:50:28 am |
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I posted a while back about Florida's strange and terrible love for amending the state constitution.
I brought it up because half of the amendments are stupid. A few of them even got taken off the ballot by court order.
Regardless of whether or not you support any of them, they generally don't belong on a ballot initiative to amend the constitution. That's how we ended up with a 3-day waiting period for hand guns (under the fucking Declaration of Rights section!) that is basically repeal-proof.
The other half of the amendments don't make any sense unless you spend a few hours researching them. For some of them, there is information available online from both partisan and non-partisan sources. But the unintelligible ones are really hard to pin down.
It seems that I am not the only one who is upset by this.
Here is an example of what will appear on the Florida ballot in November: Requires Legislature to provide a property tax exemption for real property encumbered by perpetual conservation easements or other perpetual conservation protections, defined by general law. Requires Legislature to provide for classification and assessment of land used for conservation purposes, and not perpetually encumbered, solely on the basis of character or use. Subjects assessment benefit to conditions, limitations, and reasonable definitions established by general law. Applies to property taxes beginning in 2010.
Now, my initial thought it that it is a "good thing" in that it cuts taxes in some instances. But you can't really understand the full scope of this amendment without doing some research. You can assume that most average citizens will not do that research. You can also be damn sure that none of the 30,000 felons who are illegally registered to vote in this state will do that research.
It wouldn't be hard to simply say: "This amendment creates a tax exemption for property that the state won't let the owner use." |
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