Well I'm a smoker and this whole thing has me sooooo mad that I'm ready to chew up 16 penny nails and spit out a barbed wire fence!!
But what about- "In addition, the bill calls for businesses to pay a payroll tax of 1.15 percent on each employee's salary, up to $90,000 per worker, which is also a slight increase from last week's proposal."
This is NOTHING but a State Income Tax under a DIFFERENT NAME!
It is an income tax, but it is paid by the party PAYING the income instead of the party receiving the income. I don't know for sure but I suspect that this makes a difference under the Texas Constitution.
Sneaky so-and-so's.