Power Play: A series of special reports examining the push to reduce or eliminate property taxes in Florida.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says homestead property taxes are a severe burden on Florida homeowners and wants to abolish them, regardless of the potentially devastating effects on local government budgets.

The Florida Legislature has been working to accommodate him.

House members have produced at least a dozen proposals, mostly constitutional amendments, that would reduce taxes by varying amounts on homesteads, the primary residence of the homeowner, and established a select committee to study the problem.

The Senate has also produced a number of similar proposals, but no separate committee on the issue.

But if rising property taxes is a problem that needs fixing, lawmakers have

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