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Florida AFL-CIO
May 5, 1999
Interim Wrap-up Report
information provided by the Florida AFL-CIO
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End of Session: GOP
Celebrates Tax Cuts,
Private School Vouchers And Tort Reform Victories But
Working Families Aren't Invited To The Party
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With Republicans in control of both chambers of the legislature
and the Governor's Mansion for the first time this century, Republican priorities have
dominated this legislative session. The honeymoon continued in the last week of the
1999 legislative session for Governor Bush and the Republican controlled legislature.
After signing the largest PRO-BUSINESS tax reduction in the states'
history a week earlier, Governor Bush and the GOP continued to advance their conservative,
pro-business agenda in the final hours of the 1999 legislative session. They
scored major victories on tort reform and taxpayer funded private school vouchers, and
Florida's consumers and public schools were place at great risk.
So who's smiling now that the 1999 legislature session is
history? Big Business. Thanks to the Republican-led legislature, business
interests will receive several hundred million dollars per year in tax breaks --
averaging more than $1,600 for each business owner while average working families
will each receive a $47 property tax reduction.
During the past nine weeks the LE has tracked hundreds of bills
filed in the 1999 legislative session that would effect the working men and women of
Florida. Appearing in this issue of the ULL legislative Update is a list of the most
notable ULL priority issues and how they fared this session. The ULL will publish a
detailed final legislative report in the coming weeks. |
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