I don't know exactly how I feel about this

A conundrum:

Lower real estate taxes or higher sales taxes?

Somehow I'm not sure there's a real choice here.

I'm all for having everyone pay some taxes. We've (nearly) reached a point in this nation where 50+% of the voters don't pay taxes and have no problems voting entitlements for themselves. Is the best way to correct this?

I don't know.

But I'm getting damned tired of all the retirees bitching about paying real estate taxes since they are on "fixed incomes" and I guess they should be pitied. So their solution is to have everyone pay for them. Well, under this method, they'll pay the same as everyone else.

In order to make up for the loss of the property taxes on homes, the House would give Florida the highest state sales tax rate in the country - 8.5 percent, up from the current 6 percent.

Well, at least we would feel real special.