Adam Sosnick

We're just going to give up on citrus in Florida.

Citrus used to be 245 million boxes every single season.

In the most recent one, it's only 14 million.

million.

Guess what?

That means fewer jobs, fewer local industries, fewer local businesses, and a sense of pride in our communities like in Highlands County and Sebring and Frostproof.

And so what I've said is if you're a scientist anywhere in the world, and I mean anywhere, you could even be in Iran, if you're a scientist anywhere in the world and you have discovered the scientific cure to greening, the state of Florida will pay you $1 billion cash.

Because guess what?

Florida citrus is

could be upwards of a $50 billion industry again, why wouldn't we make a one-time investment to turn places like Moorhaven, Davie, where Citrus Groves once proudly stood, where we employed tens of thousands of young men and women, where we supported local industry and local businesses, when we gave these rural communities all over our state a sense of pride, why don't we put a little bit of investment for them?

That's a good point.

And by the way, for a Floridian that may be listening to this saying, hey, that makes sense.

I'd like to see that happen.

Now, going back to the $50,000 of people coming in.

So if you're going to charge somebody that's coming here, you're calling refugees coming from New York here, the Mamdani tax of $50,000.

Who does that benefit?

What does that do?

Because even if you did that, the people that are leaving, I'd say most of them would be able to pay for it.

And I guess if they do, it generates an income for the state.

Tell me the logic behind that idea.