Besides the obvious, another reason why some Floridians were conned into voting against Gillum:
They really sucked at math.
As part of a measure to increase minimum teacher salaries to $50,000 which would have resulted in recruiting and retaining better talent as well as putting more money in the marketplace, Gillum had proposed a 40% increase on the Florida corporate tax rate.
The current Florida corporate tax rate is 5.5%. A 40% increase on that rate would be 2.2%, meaning the new corporate tax rate would be 7.7%. While that's slightly more, any competently run business should be able to reasonably absorb that cost without having much of an effect on either employees or services.
The problem was, the proposal--which would have still needed to get approval from a republican dominated Florida legislature--was twisted by Republicans and sold to gullible voters as an increase not on the existing rate, but in addition to the existing rate, meaning that voters were told to believe the new rate would be 45.5% which could significantly disrupt business operations across the state.
That's absolutely preposterous, but stupid people--like my in-laws--bought it, hook, line and sinker.
No wonder why they love the "poorly educated".
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