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Why do people think we are Stupid?!?
It's just absolutely amazing to me that people must think we are stupid.  Here are two things in particular that I've just come across. 
My last post had to do with the Florida property tax issue.  This morning I received an email from a realtor in Miami that must be a supporter of Marco Rubio, the House Speaker.  Let me just give you a brief history here.  He is proposing that we eliminate the property tax on primary residences & reduce the property tax on other properties by 20%.  To offset this revenue loss he is wishing to increase the state sales tax by 2.5%.  Ok, so here's what their website states, "Lower taxes and lower tax rates on apartment buildings and other businesses will reduce rents and keep rental housing affordable."  Who is kidding whom here?  Let's say you have a landlord who is receiving X dollars for rent on a unit & the property tax on that unit is reduced.  Do you think that this landlord will reduce the rent below the X dollars that are getting now?  But yet, there they have it in writing trying to persuade you to their point of view.  They will get some people ... more

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