DeSantis touted the Sunshine State’s freedom from a state income tax, recommending the policy for Maryland and Virginia. He also celebrated Florida’s status holding “the second-lowest state per capita tax burden in the United States” and “the second-lowest per capita debt burden,” noting that his administration has accumulated “the largest budget surplus in the history of the state of Florida by a country mile.”
“Now, none of that would have been possible had we not been the ones [who remained calm] when the world went mad during COVID, when common sense suddenly became an uncommon virtue,” the governor declared. “We in Florida stood as a refuge of sanity, as a citadel of freedom for people in our state … coming in from other states and even people that came from around the world to escape what was going on in their states or their countries.”
“We refused to let our state descend into some type of Faucian dystopia where people’s livelihoods were destroyed and their freedoms were curtailed,” DeSantis said. “No, we chose freedom over Fauci-ism, and I think it’s important.”
[Expect to hear this during the upcoming debates, too. A lot. — Ed]
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