Article: The Orlando Sentinel, Fla., John Kennedy and Jason Garcia column: Crist takes low profile on tax cuts.

Byline: John Kennedy and Jason Garcia

Jun. 17--Gov. Charlie Crist had been predicting that property-tax cuts would spark an economic "sonic boom" across Florida.

But there's been little real noise from Crist over the past few weeks, with the governor choosing to stay in the background as lawmakers worked toward resolving the tax-cut deadlock.

Why? It may be that the complexity of the issue and rising chorus of critics are convincing Crist that the plan to create a super-size homestead exemption will never win the needed approval of more than 60 percent of voters.

"I think he wants to go slowly on this to see how public opinion forms ...

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