Say No to Amendment #1 Last week a FL State Senator reported Amendment #1 as a burden to Floridas budget because of the requirement of it being a constitutionally mandated expense on future legislatures regardless of the economy. Here is another article I received on the issue today: Environmental groups complain dollars to buy conservation land have been drastically cut since 2009. But, to anyone paying attention, state revenues dropped drastically because of a horrible recession. Everyone did with less! Our legislators scrambled to cover the essential needs of schools, unemployment, Medicaid, and more. Land buying took a back seat to human needs, as it should have. Amendment 1 limits the Legislature’s ability to deal with crises by putting into our constitution the requirement to set aside approximately $500 million dollars per year from doc stamp tax revenues to buy conservation land. No matter what happens to the economy, no matter what the pressing human needs might be, that money will be untouchable. Never mind that there are 69,000 homeless children in our schools whose only meals are eaten at school. Never mind there are 20,000 on a waiting list for Medicaid subsidized elder care. What’s worse is the bonding authority in Amendment 1. Spokesmen for the environmental groups supporting Amendment 1 say openly that the real intent of Amendment 1 is to sell bonds and finance buying land, buying as much as they can as fast as they can, and pay for it with future tax revenues. That is debt that must be repaid to the bond holders. Florida citizens must say NO to Amendment 1. If not, “We the People” will be on the hook for that land-buying debt and the legislators will have no ability to change that.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:55:14 +0000
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