Sept. AARP Bulletin says Florida voters "will decide in November whether to approve a proposed state constitutional amendment that could have devastating consequences for the state's education, health care, public safety and business sectors.

Amendment 5 which requires 60 percent voter approval for passage, would eliminate nearly $9 billion in state-required property taxes for local school funding in 2010.

To replace the money, opponents say, lawmakers would have to choose among raising state sales taxes, imposing a sales tax on previously untaxed services and slashing billions from health care, human services, criminal justice and school budgets.

AARP and other opponents, including education and business groups say the amendment's negative effects would be so widespread, and its benefits so murky, that voters should reject it.
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