""Perry won a victory in the House on Wednesday when lawmakers rebuffed a proposal to give businesses the choice of paying a payroll tax or the corporate franchise tax.
Perry has urged lawmakers to modify the franchise tax to make about 10,000 more companies pay it by including corporations that now establish partnerships to avoid paying it.
He had hoped to move the sluggish school-finance negotiations forward by encouraging lawmakers to abandon a payroll tax that many of them did not want to pass and that could have slowed the tax-swap push considerably because it is a tough political sell.
Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, proposed an amendment that would give businesses the option of choosing between a payroll tax and the franchise tax. He said 325,000 more Texas businesses would pay taxes, raising an additional $100 million and ensuring a fairer tax system.
Perry had met with several dozen House Republicans for breakfast Wednesday, hours before the debate began, to underscore his opposition to the payroll tax. And his top aides were busy throughout the day, before the vote on Chisum's amendment, lobbying against its adoption. House members then killed the amendment 96-47. Democrats and Republicans split both ways on the vote.
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Perry beat back the Pay Roll Tax(back door income tax) idea in the house.
Here's hoping the Senate does not lose their minds and try and put it back in.
Dewhurst has been a liberal on this issue. His old buddy Carol seems to support a back door state income tax as well.
Can't we just refuse federal funds & tell to go screw thems........