Florida Legislature 2024: The Visible Hand

Seeking Rents – The Podcast

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Florida Legislature 2024: The Visible Hand

The second week of Florida’s annual lawmaking session has begun in the state Legislature, where we love the free market except when we don’t.

Jason Garcia

Jan 16, 2024

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In this episode: Recapping another busy day in the Florida Legislature. Lawmakers are now eight days into their 60-day legislative session, and they’re moving bills to protect poultry companies, plastic polluters, and police officers who engage in brutality. But they also want to build more housing for migrant farmworkers.

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Seeking Rents – The Podcast

"Rent-seeking" is a term in economics that describes when a corporation uses its political influence to twist tax laws and other public policy in its favor. Seeking Rents – The Podcast brings you the stories of how that's happening in Florida, where corporate interests like Florida Power & Light, Big Sugar, and Walt Disney World wield enormous influence everywhere from local city halls to the state Capitol. Hosted by award-winning journalist Jason Garcia, Florida's leading corporate-accountability reporter.

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