Florida

“If you just look at the budget per person places like Texas and Florida spend about 5000 dollars per citizen on services, you know, if you divide the budget by the population, and then you look at New York City, it's close to 13,000 dollars, and you look at Ca…”

“There's only three things are true in Nevada. There's no state income tax. There's very low property tax and it has a rising population. And that is not true, in my opinion, anywhere else in the US. So if you compare it to Florida, for example, there is no sta…”

“Leaving your house here, your main house and moving to Texas or Florida for a year or two with the intent of coming back, it doesn't qualify. If you do come back after a couple of years, the tax authorities here will say, look, you never sold your house. You n…”

“That's absolutely safe. And the red states in America, like Florida, Ohio, and others, They rely on it. The more rural a state is, they really use that too.”

“The cloud was only recently made legal in Florida as recently as twenty-twenty-two. So if you were a law enforcement agency, you could not host your data in the cloud until 2022. Maryland was 2023.”

“Texas and Florida Do a better job for their population, collecting half as much in taxes per capita as California does and having no income tax or capital gains tax.”

“I think it's probably going to be a lot of red states you'll see. So my guess is you'll see something in Texas. You'll probably see something in Florida. Maybe you'll see something in New York.”

“California collects roughly double per capita what Texas and Florida do. So California collects about 10,319 dollars per taxpayer, whereas Texas 5469, Florida 4914.”

“All the people that are tired of living in a nanny state, being told we're going to get rid of your internal combustion engine and replace it with an electric car and all that kind of stuff, they're just going to, they're going to self-segregate. They're going…”

“In the future, we'll see more. You see Jeanie Gang. You see people, and she's also a really nice person, a very thoughtful person. You will see more women. You know, Jeanie's an architect, right? So she's not really signing the loan. She gets a lot of credit, …”

“The corporate tax rate is 5.5%, and most companies don't ever end up having to pay it because of the way they structure their own companies.”

“They had an investment here for a little while in Florida and pulled out.”

“In the case of Florida, they're paying five to 10 dollars over minimum wage for farm workers, and they cannot get any Americans to work on the farm, and they're being forced to pay five to 10 dollars overage.”

“Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Phoenix, some Nevada. It's just opportunities are, you can buy a heck of a lot more for your dollar. You know, the cost per units are like 50,000 a unit versus 500,000 a unit.”

“When we look at the data across the last five challenges that we've run starting in July of 2023, we've been able to identify 444 companies that hail from 55 different countries, 19 states, but then about 30% of the companies that apply have some type of conne…”

“But when the next Hurricane Katrina happens in, you know, Florida, for example, then insurance is just going to be insolvent in many ways.”

“We had already three arrests here in Florida, actually, and one indictment in New York.”

“Well, fourteen million acres of farmland in Florida is currently in a drought.”

“We have out there are daily shipment of like over a hundred. If you go look at the addresses, like Texas, I think is our biggest state and Florida, like just the biggest states”

“Florida does two to three million acres a year of prescribed burning.”

“Policies in California were only 30 dollars higher than the national average home insurance policies in Florida. They're 2000 dollars higher.”

“Unlike Florida, Louisiana citizens must offer premiums slightly higher than the private market. So it doesn't undercut private insurers.”

“New York is two hundred and thirty three billion is their state budget. What do you think Florida is? A hundred and fifteen billion. Ok? And Florida has a zero percent income tax. New York has 10.9 plus the city tax in New York City.”

“If they had tried to go back to 15, you know, they probably could have gotten there. They probably could have gotten from 57 to 60.”

“Florida has a state-backed reinsurance provider called the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. And this fund issues debt to meet its coverage demands because it reinsures insurance companies in order to incentivize them to come into the state and underwrite.”

“The state reinsurance vehicle only has statutory liability maximum of seventeen billion dollars in a single hurricane season.”

“There's going to be no way to create a clear demarcation of who gets a bailout and who doesn't, which will mean that everybody will get a bailout or nobody gets a bailout.”

“What else is striking is just how Insular and protectionist Texas and Florida are being, and it's not just with this law, it's also with the lab-grown meat or cultivated meat laws that they'passed, and other states are passing similar laws, which is limiting i…”

“Like a very large percentage of the top taxpayers in New York, which is a lot of the tax base have moved to Florida because it's finance and finance as opposed to tech”

“My thesis is there's only one like cool, this is, it can get me in trouble, but there's only one real cool city in Florida and it's Miami. So I'm sorry, but you know, I would actually argue there's zero cool cities in Florida. There's between zero and one cool…”

“Florida, Turkey Point in Florida is, is, has a license granted for two new reactors, but they're not building them because they're flinchy about the cost.”

“He was in New Jersey and he was responsible for three percent of the state's budget and the taxes he personally paid. And he moved to Florida.”

“In Florida, they have a reinsurance pool that is largely assumed to be completely underfunded.”

“Don't invest in companies based in Las Vegas, Santa Barbara, or Florida. Rationale was that people love those places for lifestyle, and you don't want an entrepreneur who thinks about work-life balance.”

“The Florida signaling is, right? Basically, you like no income taxes, right? You're an optimizer. You want that last dollar, right? Well, that's, but why is crypto? It's like the same thing with, like, crypto is all in Puerto Rico. Like, all these crazy, like,…”

“I think that of all the major candidates who actually have a realistic shot, DeSantis is the most supremely competent as an executive. He's run the state of Florida.”

“They haven't banned any books in Florida, but the question is what books are taught in the curriculum and what's in the school library.”

“And the opportunities down in Florida were so much greater than up in the Northeast where prices were going up, you're competing with builders”

“And when you look at, you know, Florida as an example, a thousand people a day are moving down to the state of Florida.”

“And in Florida, you gotta be really careful because you can easily default to just wanting to have... Retirees... So how do you prevent that? Well, you have to have two things. One is jobs, but more importantly, a school.”

“I literally brought spinning to Florida.”

“And as they're doing these layoffs, et cetera, we're actually moving people to Iowa. You know, I just moved, you know, I've moved people from Florida, from You know, California. I moved people from Mexico before. I moved people from, you know, other parts of t…”

“Much of the South, and especially the Southeast, is already electrified, and we see that across the country, one in four homes is already all electric and I've seen this too, and in our study, we looked at Florida, for example, and we found that only nine perc…”

“At my rock bottom, it was a couple million in loans that I ended up getting stuck with.”

“What we are going through and what we are going to see is much more polystatism and the network state is a way of not just using the existing administrative units like Florida and what have you, but setting up new ones.”

“We bring in a thousand people every day.”

“We have a lot of agriculture, too, but a little known fact is that our biggest agricultural industry is nurseries, which is essentially growing sod and palm trees for suburban lawns.”

“And so that's what I mean by this ecological Ponzi scheme, where eventually, kind of, the bill comes due, and Hurricane Ian is one of those moments where suddenly we've put twenty million people in harm's way, And the harm arrived.”

“You know, I don't think there will be a lot of soul searching about, you know, do we belong here? Does a place like Cape Coral, you know, should it be rebuilt? It's going to be rebuilt.”

“Rick Scott, when he was governor, one of the first things he did was get rid of Florida's growth management agency, and since then, it's been all growth and no management.”

“And now, of course, we see the consequences, and the consequences will be Florida's gonna put its hand out and ask Washington, D.C. To pay for all this, and probably they will.”

“We built here, you know, we're not gonna tell 200,000 people to leave Cape Coral. We're not gonna tell ten million people to leave South Florida.”

“It's actually more permissive than any European country. But nobody knows that. France actually only allows abortion up to 14 weeks. Germany is like 16. So we're 20 here, so we're more liberal than Europe.”

“I think Bob What's his name? Bob Chapek. I don't think he's going to survive the year after what just happened at Disney, and it's because he gave in to the employees, took sides against the, you know, governor in Florida and the legislature, and they just rip…”

“Florida and one other state. That's it.”

“So in Florida now, in a comprehensive workforce package, we were able to advocate for a change so that all performance funding, or out of all performance funding, two-thirds will be based on student earnings.”

“So one of them, you know, in 1992, we had Hurricane Andrew that hit Florida, and it was 15 and a half billion dollars worth of damage, and 16 insurance companies went belly up as a result.”

“Most of it's like in income producing real estate. In which state? Texas in Florida.”

“So we did an all-payer, all-payer claims database, which I think is the biggest in the country, where we said, let's get, let's tell the patient as granular as possible how much their surgery or procedure is going to cost.”

“So now if you go to a state college in Florida, they have to offer at least three certifications or technical degrees where they say, if you come and you get this certificate, And you are not working in that field in six months. We'll give you your money back.…”