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So Senate Republicans gutted Mike Braun's property tax relief plan yesterday.

And that's where we begin today.

The new version focuses on tightening

referendum rules for schools limiting growth on property tax levies and introducing a first time

homebuyer credit however the annual 3% cap on property tax growth was removed the governor's plan

capped it at 2%. They also removed the

increased deductions for homeowners. They completely removed the rate reset. And Braun's

original plan would have reduced average homebuyers tax bill by 21%. But guess what? That has gone

bye-bye. It is the most government thing ever. They took a very good

streamlined moderate bill. Keep in mind, this bill was a real compromise between what people like

me wanted. This is not what I really wanted and the school people and the government people

who didn't want anything.

He said, we're going to target a very specific group of people. We're going to do the most amount

of good with the least amount of impact on anyone. No commercial was included in this. No rental

was included in this. Any new construction in the past four years, not included in this. The only

people that were going to see help,

and it's a lot of people, but not when you compare to the amount of actual assessed value,

which is how property taxes are done and governments get their money in communities,

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