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Old 10-20-2016, 05:54 PM
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Sometimes I just have to shake my head...at the flaming hypocrisy I see.

Those who are opposed to a tax break for people who install solar (which is actually something very positive for the environment)...do so because they say they are against subsidies by taxpayers.

So how many of them DON'T currently use one of the biggest taxpayer funded subsidies around...the the 'Property Tax Exemption for Homestead Property?'

Heck, you don't even have to have a real homestead...or even to have been living here for a long amount of years to get it.

http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/propert...ures/pt113.pdf


The dirty little secret is that the big, for-profit power companies don't want solar to compete with them and they sure as heck don't want to pay the going rate to buy back excess solar power from consumers...so they are spending millions trying to obfuscate what is basically a subsidy to them.

Vote NO on Amendment 1.