Well, something has to be done. My property taxes have gone up
30% a year for each of the last three years.
IOW, I'm paying nearly twice what I paid three years ago. That can't continue.
I don't want a state income tax, but these property taxes are driving people out of their homes, especially seniors.
Excerpt from a letter I sent to Gov. Perry in June 2003:
"... No income tax for Texas
Please remember that an income tax must forever remain out of the question for Texas. Recent attempts by the governor and legislature of Tennessee to pass an income tax met with defeat in 2001 and 2002. A Wall Street Journal article (Reference 1) summarizes this citizen victory and the unseating of several legislators. Attempts at passing an income tax in Texas would only bring similar results."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110002098 Has the liberal media in TX EVER mentioned the defeat of a twice proposed TN income tax?
I witnessed the passage of a state income tax in CT in 1991. AFTER the vote (that passed at 3:00 AM in the morning), we demonstrated on the lawn of the capital in Hartford and hung the Gov. (Weicker-RINO) in effigy, constructed tanks out of plywood pointed at the capitol-all to no avail as the damage was done. Once passed it will NEVER go away and will ONLY get higher. CT raised the state income tax rate in 2003.
There MUST be total opposition to any form of state income tax in Texas.
If this TX