The Kitchen Sink & Florida's Property Taxes – Top 3 Takeaways – July 10th, 2026
Takeaway #1: The kitchen sink
The year was... A massive 7.8 earthquake shook San Francisco killing over 3,000 people. The SOS was adopted as a universal distress signal. The first Alzheimer’s case was correctly diagnosed. Teddy Roosevelt coined the term “muckraker” (Also...it may or may not be true that Joe Biden was starting his third term in the Senate). The year was...1906. What else happened in 1906? The phrase commonly used today by those who are doing everything they possibly can to achieve a desired result...as in “throwing the kitchen sink” was coined. The phrase actually began in the British publication Scribner’s Magazine like this...She had on everything but the kitchen stove, and yet she looked well dressed! Within a few years several other examples began to pop up of people dropping the stove and replacing it with the kitchen sink. Anyway, the reason why my top takeaway today is about the kitchen sink is because that’s what’s already begun in the effort to defeat the proposed property tax reductions on homesteaded properties in November. Here are recent headlines from Florida Politics on the subject...you tell me if GSS News is already resorting to the throwing of sinks... Political committee ramps up to oppose Ron DeSantis’s property tax overhaul. Once a loud advocate for property tax cuts, Ron DeSantis says he doesn’t plan to lead campaign on ballot initiative. Amendment 3 opposition keeps growing – and a ‘yes’ campaign is nowhere in sight. Could property tax relief cost Florida more? New group says yes. So ahh...yeah. And we’re only a third of the way through July. Just imagine how many more times that will be that you’re subjected to lies between now and November. So yeah...
Takeaway #2: They’ve already thrown the kitchen sink to attempt to sink the property tax amendment
By November they probably will have resorted to attempting to heave the stove too. And by they...yes, it’s GSS News because naturally the libtards who operate as journalists out number conservatives in the field by greater than 10-1!. Not kidding, Democrats outnumber Republicans in journalism by 10.4 to 1. It’s the most liberal split of any professional field that exists. By way of comparison, it’s currently about 8 to 1 in academia. And naturally leftists favor funding big bloated governments over affordability for you. This is why every story you come across that provides any type of analysis is always about how services will suffer or how you could even end up paying more! Of course none of this needs to happen, and none of negatively is inherently true. For over a year I’ve illustrated time and again about how it is that homesteaded property taxes could be eliminated without having a negative impact on you (the short version is that all the average local government has to do is operate the exact same way they did in 2019 and that’s even accounting for inflation and population increases). Never once do any of these journos ask any of these alleged experts about how local governments would have operated if Florida’s economy hadn’t been so good and if Florida’s property values hadn’t skyrocketed. That wouldn’t fit the narrative of course. Bigger still, the math worked with total elimination of property taxes, and that’s not what this is. The proposal excludes school taxes, which accounts for half or more of most jurisdictions’ property taxes, meaning it’s eminently doable for local governments that operate with any type of efficiency. And here’s the thing...and part of the reason I’m highlighting it once again with my top three takeaways today...
Takeaway #3: The projecting of the sink appears to be starting to work
Previous polling has rather consistently showed that around two thirds of Floridians approve of the property tax amendment. A key figure with 60% needed to pass on election day. Two-thirds in polling suggests that even with a decent margin of error there’s a bit of room to breathe...but approval of the proposal does appear to be slightly shrinking. The most recent poll out this week from a pollster who previously had the issue at about 66%, Sachs Media, shows the issue currently showing 64% of Florida’s voters who say they’d currently vote ‘yes’ on 3. And here’s a look at the partisan splits currently... 87% of Republicans approve, 62% of independents too. But as for Democrats...the number stands at just 35%. And this presents a clear line of attack...Leftists attempting to misinform and scare everyone they can from the center-left. While 35% support among Democrats is extremely low...it does still leave some room for support to fall. More to the point...with nearly nine in ten Republicans already onboard...there’s not really much room to grow on the right. But with over a third of Democrats still says yes – there’s more room for the Left’s full court press to take effect. And that’s independent of the independents that might still be persuadable too. With a certain drumbeat of negativity about Amendment 3 that will be thrown at you...it’s especially important that you know the truth...and share it with other too.