Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Amendment 5 Confusion

Among myriad opinions floating around in the street and the press regarding the removal of Amendment 5 from the November ballot, the Florida Supreme Court issues a explanation:

AMENDMENT 5

Florida's Supreme Court justices, in a 15-page unanimous opinion, explained their decision to remove Amendment 5 from the November ballot. They said that voters would be misled by a claim that local school property taxes would be replaced with an "equivalent" amount of state funds when that guaranteed replacement is only good for the first year.

Read the full story: http://www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/n2-091608.cfm.

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