The State of Florida

[Synthaholic]

The state of Florida is very bad. We're getting sued left and right and our tax dollars are getting wasted by DeSantis, fighting these lawsuits, sending immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, his now-hidden travel expenses in violation of Florida's Sunshine Law, and many other actions that are illegal. Migrants are fleeing the state before his law against them takes effect in June, leaving crops unpicked and rotting. He's fighting Disney, who is cancelling billions in development and jobs in the state.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

When is your next comedy show?

 

[lennypartiv]

The state of Florida is very bad. We're getting sued left and right and our tax dollars are getting wasted by DeSantis, fighting these lawsuits, sending immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, his now-hidden travel expenses in violation of Florida's Sunshine Law, and many other actions that are illegal. Migrants are fleeing the state before his law against them takes effect in June, leaving crops unpicked and rotting. He's fighting Disney, who is cancelling billions in development and jobs in the state.

Another liberal opposed to officials encouraging moral behavior.

 

[Independent thinker]

The state of Florida is very bad. We're getting sued left and right and our tax dollars are getting wasted by DeSantis, fighting these lawsuits, sending immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, his now-hidden travel expenses in violation of Florida's Sunshine Law, and many other actions that are illegal. Migrants are fleeing the state before his law against them takes effect in June, leaving crops unpicked and rotting. He's fighting Disney, who is cancelling billions in development and jobs in the state.

Everyone is flocking out of deep blue states and headed to Florida and Texas.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Migrants are fleeing the state before his law against them takes effect in June, leaving crops unpicked and rotting.

Because when the left demands a living wage, it's only meant for white people.

 

[surada]

Another liberal opposed to officials encouraging moral behavior.

What is moral about stupidity and vengeance?

 

[surada]

Because when the left demands a living wage, it's only meant for white people.

Who taught you such rubbish?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Who taught you such rubbish?

Truth stings, doesn't it.

 

[surada]

You, okay!! I learned it from watching you!!

No you didn't learn it from me. Trump gave tax breaks to the very wealthy.

Trump: GOP will become 'worker's party' under me

Under a President Donald Trump, the Republican Party would become a different one, a broad populist coalition focused on workers who have gone too long without a raise and on social programs the party establishment has long seen as anathema to its long-term success.

www.politico.com

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

No you didn't learn it from me. Trump gave tax breaks to the very wealthy.

Trump: GOP will become 'worker's party' under me

Under a President Donald Trump, the Republican Party would become a different one, a broad populist coalition focused on workers who have gone too long without a raise and on social programs the party establishment has long seen as anathema to its long-term success.

www.politico.com

Which has nothing to do with the thread.

 

[Synthaholic]

Businesses are suffering under DeSantis. Homeowners insurance has tripled under Meatball Ron.

 

[bodecea]

Another liberal opposed to officials encouraging moral behavior.

Ah...so you think it's government's job to "enforce moral behavior"?

 

[bodecea]

Businesses are suffering under DeSantis. Homeowners insurance has tripled under Meatball Ron.

Oh well....I don't really care. Do U?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Businesses are suffering under DeSantis. Homeowners insurance has tripled under Meatball Ron.

What do home insurance prices have to do with DeSantis?

 

[bodecea]

What do home insurance prices have to do with DeSantis?

He's not responsible for anything.

 

[lennypartiv]

Ah...so you think it's government's job to "enforce moral behavior"?

Private business isn't going to do it anymore. apartment owners are renting to unmarried couples and to gays. Beer companies are bowing down to trannies. Companies in the tourist industry are blatantly advertising for gays. Cereal companies are showing interracial families in their TV advertisements.

 

[Synthaholic]

What do home insurance prices have to do with DeSantis?

Are you serious?

 

[Synthaholic]

The DeSantis administration accelerated this crisis, with insurance price hikes expected to average 40% this year.5 This year’s increase comes after years of price increases, which DeSantis’s Office of Insurance Regulation has approved at greater rates and for higher overall increases than the prior administration. Florida residents’ complaints regarding consumer and commercial property casualty insurance–the property insurance types carried by homeowners to avoid catastrophic losses from hurricanes– have jumped under DeSantis’s tenure. This spike in complaints filed against non-paying insurers indicates that Floridians may be paying more and getting less.

The DeSantis administration has handed the insurance companies two significant wins:

1. Creating a $2 billion taxpayer-funded reinsurance fund. Reinsurance funds function as insurance for insurance companies, preventing them from being wiped out during a catastrophic event. Usually, insurance companies purchase reinsurance coverage on the open market; but in Florida, DeSantis decided to use tax dollars to provide access to a state-subsidized insurance fund.

2. DeSantis also stripped Floridians of their ability to recover attorney fees when suing insurance companies that refuse to honor claims. As reporting in The Lever has noted, the loss of recovering attorney fees from insurers who do not pay out is a “momentous” departure from something that had been Florida state law since 1893. Moreover, with the law repealed concerning property insurance, it is only a matter of time before other types of insurers seek similar treatment.

According to S&P Global, these industry handouts are projected to have little effect on driving down overall consumer costs—a prediction borne seemingly in the substantial price increases in 2022 and projected for 2023.8

 

[Synthaholic]

RON DESANTIS HAS RAKED IN $3.9 MILLION FROM INSURANCE INDUSTRY, NEW REPORT REVEALS​

The governor has overseen a dramatic rise in home insurance premiums and legislative giveaways to insurance companies.

FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS and his political action committee have received millions of dollars from insurance stakeholders as he has overseen massive giveaways to the insurance industry, according to a new report. Florida homeowners, meanwhile, face ballooning insurance prices and are under increasing economic strain in one of the states hardest hit by climate change.

The governor’s committee and the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC raked in $3.9 million from the insurance industry since its formation in 2018, according to a report released Wednesday by Hedge Clippers, a campaign organized by the Center for Popular Democracy, “including more than $150,000 in one day from dozens of State Farm agents.” The governor’s inaugural fund was also backed by a combined $125,000 from two property casualty insurers, People’s Trust Insurance and a subsidiary of Heritage Insurance.

“DeSantis is not only failing to hold the insurance industry accountable,” reads the report. “Critically, he is failing to bring down rates for Florida homeowners.” The American Federation of Teachers and Florida Rising, a grassroots voting rights and organizing group, also contributed to the report, titled “How Ron DeSantis Sold Out Florida Homeowners.”

Under DeSantis’s watch, home insurance premiums have risen from $1,988 to $4,231 on average, putting Floridians under financial strain to pay for insurance that sits at nearly three times the national average. And this year, home insurance premiums are expected to increase another 40 percent, an issue that former President Donald Trump has hammered DeSantis over as the governor weighs a challenge to Trump in the GOP presidential primary.

“Ron DeSanctimonious is delivering the biggest insurance company BAILOUT to Globalist Insurance Companies, IN HISTORY,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social in March.

These increases come as DeSantis has rubber-stamped policies accelerating insurance company profits at direct cost to homeowners and Florida taxpayers broadly.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

We are talking about Florida, the state that gets slammed with hurricanes almost yearly, not mention a massive one last year that practically wiped out their southwest coastline, correct?