Local government spending has grown out of control. Left unchecked, this will damage our economic potential. |
Meaningful reforms, more aggressive investigation of workers' compensation fraud and compliance efforts have led to dramatic savings for Florida's businesses. We will continue to aggressively investigate cases of suspected fraud to continue to improve the system for our small businesses and our workers. |
My understanding (of state law) is these are public companies and the amount of shares I owned were insignificant, and I didn't see any conflict. |
Nobody's been more critical of Citizens than I have. But I will tell you that without Citizens, 25 percent of the people in homes in this state, they would not have insurance, they would not have a mortgage, they wouldn't be able to sell their homes. |
Often declaring losses on the prior year's return can lead to a larger deduction. |
One of the things I talk about is the importance of having strong families in our state. It's the base of society. Strong families build the leaders of tomorrow. Strong families keep down the cost of government. |
Our priority now is to get any outstanding hurricane claims paid as quickly as possible. |
Over the past 14 months I have personally called out companies and demanded they come to Tallahassee and answer for their conduct, ... I have pushed for rate freezes. My office has helped 60,000 citizens with their problems with insurance companies. |
Rate relief is a short-term solution and should be tied to long-term fixes. I applaud Governor Bush and state lawmakers for considering my proposals to provide relief to homeowners as well as long-term, comprehensive reforms of Citizens and our insurance market. |
She does those things naturally, and we have to credit her mom for that. It's like we're describing the perfect teenager here. There's times when she has everybody laughing, including me. She's quite a kid. |
Storm victims should not have to chase after money that is theirs to begin with, and there is no reason why these funds should not be released directly to the homeowner, especially in the aftermath of a catastrophic storm. |
That's a generic rule. I don't know if it applies to Bush. |
The economy is performing well enough to be producing pretty good profits under last year's rules. But we don't know what the profits are going to be under the new rules. |
The eight hurricanes which stuck Florida in less than 15 months created problems that no one could have ever anticipated. Addressing those challenges, reducing the burdens on Florida homeowners and preparing Florida's families for future storms remain my top priorities this session. |
The idea is although over a bunch of years you build up a cash reserve of $6 billion, you could just as easily have a bunch of years where you have a $15 billion deficit. |