{"id":99686,"date":"2025-12-30T05:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99686\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:15:07","slug":"florida-senator-discusses-potential-property-tax-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99686\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida senator discusses potential property tax reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Although he would like to do away with property taxes, a North Central Florida state senator says they are a necessary evil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While many Republicans at the statehouse are pushing for major reforms to local property taxes, Senator Stan McClain has some definite concerns because property taxes pay for a wide range of public services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI don\u2019t know if we can just say \u2018hey, you know, we\u2019re gonna completely get rid of it\u2019, to me, that would take a longer period of time&#8230;We\u2019re not gonna have any more local government services,\u201d said McClain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McClain points out that almost any property tax reform the legislature passes will have to be approved by voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The only exception would be to prohibit local governments from raising their current millage rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Although he would like to do away with property taxes, a North Central Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,24758,45347,7074,52410,914,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-99686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-millage-rate","12":"tag-north-central-florida","13":"tag-property-taxes","14":"tag-senator-stan-mcclain","15":"tag-state","16":"tag-tallahassee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}