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Give Elderly Break On Property Taxes  October 16, 1998|By Jeff
Kunerth of The Sentinel Staff  Seventy-two-year-old Dudley Boger
recently took a $6-an-hour job as a security guard to supplement
his meager retirement income. Boger, a retired construction
superintendent, and his wife, Harriet, live on less than $20,000
a year in Social Security and pensions.  Under Amendment 3, the
Bogers could be eligible for an additional $25,000 homestead
exemption that would cut the $960 property tax bill in half on
their Osceola County home.  ``Boy, that would be great because
our taxes have gone nothing but up in Osceola,'' said Harriet
Boger, 68.  The amendment, one of the proposed changes to the
Florida Constitution placed on the Nov. 3 ballot, leaves it up
to counties and cities whether to offer the additional homestead
exemption. Local governments also would have the option of
lowering the amount of the tax break or changing the income
requirement of $20,0