CITY and local community college property taxes are ALSO frozen for many senior Texans. The Texas Silver Haired Legislature (TSHL) has been going around Texas pursuing this version of "backyard socialism" for two years. (The kids pay for Grandpa's ambulance, fire, police, senior center, library, roads and other services.) The seniors have plenty of breaks already.
List of Texas towns that have frozen CITY property taxes for seniors and disables (on top of the frozen SCHOOL taxes) http://www.netarrantseniors.net/Freeze%20Status%20in%20Tarrant%20County%20&%20Elsewhere.htm
They are working a petition now to get the voters in Fort Worth to agree to a CITY property tax freeze for seniors. Everybody else's taxes will go up to support this plundering of the public treasury by a special interest group.
But where's the justice for a single male with no kids and brand new house? BCAD increased the property value of my house 12% because there will be a new library opening up on the corner. State tax code says they can ony increase it 10%.
I'd like to see an amendment that removes the school tax liability for homeowners with no children.