DeSantis' Law Requiring Online Vendors to Charge Sales Tax Wasn't a New Tax - FactCheck.org

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : For example, under the law, residents using Citizens Property Insurance Corporation -- the state-backed insurer of last resort -- would be required to switch to a private insurance company if the premiums are less than 20% higher than Citizens' rates, the Pensacola News Journal reported.
49% : An analysis of the bill by legislative staff said that "compliance" with the original tax was "notoriously low." "State law [in Florida] requires consumers to remit use tax to state tax authorities whenever a seller doesn't collect tax on a taxable transaction at the time of sale," according to Avalara, a Washington-based transactional tax processing company.
43% : Finally, the ads make the claim that DeSantis supports "cutting Social Security and Medicare."
42% : In an interview on March 12 on Fox News, however, DeSantis said, "You know, we're not going to mess with Social Security as Republicans." DW PAC is responsible for a project called DeSantis Watch, which says that it is "dedicated to shining a spotlight on the Governor's failures of leadership that make all of us less free."
41% : Although some Democrats have criticized DeSantis' signing of the bill, saying that it amounted to raising taxes on Floridians by $1 billion a year, this was not a new tax.
38% : The ad's narrator says, "While Americans struggle to get ahead, he [DeSantis] increases taxes."

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