Tampa Tribune Editorial

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Lawmakers Should Put An End To Their Property Tax Farce

The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 19, 2007

Meanwhile, the House failed to pass any legislation and left town with all sorts of new ideas for tax reductions being floated….

This editorial error has the virtue of resting on sophisticated knowledge of punctuation. There should be an apostrophe after “reducations” for possessive before the gerund: “reductions’ being floated.”

Reform is needed to make Florida's property taxes more equitable and less burdensome.

Editorials suffer from wordiness; passive verbs exacerbate this tendency.

Edit: “Florida’s property taxes need reform to make them more equitable.”