South Florida Sun Sentinel: Editorial: If Property Taxes are Doomed, an Income Tax is Fairer

Florida has a new and dubious distinction: The nation’s most unfair tax code. Gov. Ron DeSantis and some legislators aim to make it even worse.

After years of ranking second or third, Florida is now considered the absolute worst in terms of how much less a percentage of their incomes Donald Trump and other wealthy residents pay compared to those who don’t earn as much.

That’s the judgment of ITEP, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank, in its seventh edition of “Who Pays,” which scrutinizes state and local taxes nationwide.