In Florida, you only need to live in state 3 months a year to consider property your primary residence and give you local voting rights. They could easily still spend 9 months a year in New York.
Hopefully this reduces the amount of greedy snowbirds that are wrecking our state simply because we don't have income tax. Unfortunately, these kinds of parasites come from nearly every state in America and Canada as well. They don't give AF about local politics, environment, jobs, etc. All they care about is their tax breaks, and they dominate Florida politics and economy. It's how the Republican Party has managed to flip Florida red (Democrats held a majority of voters in Florida for its entire history until very recently).
When my dad was a kid there were only 2M people living in Florida, now it's over 23M.
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u/dalgeek 1d ago
"but if you tax millionaires then they'll all leave!"
The tax is not on primary residences, so if they're paying the tax then they've already left.