What You Need To Know About DeSantis’ Economic Record

“Ron DeSantis has abandoned the state of Florida to fly on private jets and speak to dwindling crowds. 

Here’s what you need to know about DeSantis’ economic record:

• Florida is facing a home insurance crisis. Property “insurance rates in Florida could increase by at least 40% in 2023,” Insider reported. Newsweek found that “Florida insurance premiums have soared 206% since DeSantis became governor.”
• Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) criticized DeSantis’ lack of leadership on this problem in a recent tweet. “The result of the state’s top elected official failing to focus on (and be present in) Florida. This is a major crisis for Floridians.”
• Florida is “now the most expensive state to live in,” according to one insurance expert.
• DeSantis has proposed and followed through on massive spending increases.
• Florida Taxwatch found that “Florida’s state budget has grown by 28.6 percent” in the last three years.
• DeSantis supports a national sales tax.
• A national sales tax would hurt middle-class Americans, according to an analysis. DeSantis’ national sales tax would raise taxes on 90 percent of Americans.
• The Florida Swamp: DeSantis has a lengthy record of doing favors for favored lobbyists and political contributors.
• A report revealed how Ron DeSantis helped “Florida Power & Light raise electricity rates by $5 billion” after receiving millions in support from FPL and FPL-affiliated groups.
• The Washington Post found that “the administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) steered $92 million last year in leftover federal coronavirus stimulus money to a controversial highway interchange project that directly benefits a top political donor.” The donor, an ultra rich developer, ”loaned” a golf simulator that cost at least $27,500 to the Governor’s mansion for the governor’s use. This arrangement was called “unusual” and “ripe for scrutiny,” by an ethics expert.
• DeSantis’ globalist trade record
• In a June 2018 Fox Business interview, DeSantis said, “I’m not somebody that advocates tariffs. I want to have lower barriers and I want to have free trade.”
• A month later in another Fox Business interview, DeSantis claimed, “I’ve typically not been somebody that advocates tariffs and don’t think that’s the end state that you want.”
• President Trump, by contrast, imposed tariffs on more than $300 billion worth of Chinese imports. These tariffs worked and shrank America’s trade deficit with China.
• Ron DeSantis knows President Trump was strong on China. “I just have confidence in President Trump. If there’s ever been one political figure, certainly a president, who has been tough on China, not just since he’s been a candidate and president, but for years and years — it’s him,” DeSantis said in a Fox Business interview.”

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