From Steve Bousquet's column: "Legislators will take a final vote on this reduced budget early next week. They will declare victory by noting how they largely spared public education from the reductions. But they did it by depending so heavily on the local property taxes they say are hurting Floridians so much, and a day of reckoning is approaching.

No one knows that better than Rep. Ray Sansom, R-Destin, the House budget chief and next House speaker, who says legislators must find a way to replace a big chunk of that local property tax money with a different tax source. "If we don't," he said, "we're hypocritical."

And there's this story today: " Republicans in the House and Senate pushed past the objections of Democrats on Friday to approve $1.1-billion in budget cuts that will hit colleges, public schools, hospitals and nursing homes. "