Senate President Don Gaetz believes that the $500 million in tax and fee cuts proposed by Gov. Rick Scott should come from a few basic areas, rather than extensive cuts in “dribs and drabs.”
During an interview on The Florida Channel’s “Florida Face to Face” last week, the Niceville Republican plugged a Senate plan reducing vehicle-registration fees raised in 2009, as well as suggesting the possibility of reducing cell-phone bills by cutting communications-services taxes.
Gaetz said the Legislature should focus any reductions to help consumers, according to the News Service of Florida.
“I think if we do a dollar here and 40 cents there, you don’t really have much of an impact on people’s sense of how much money they have in their pockets,” Gaetz added.
“I’d rather do two or three things right, and do them with impact, than do a lot of things in a drib and a drab.”
Scott publicized the $500 million figure, but has not provided details of where the cuts would come from, writes the News Service.
