Posted on 05/10/2005 8:06:01 AM PDT by ArmyBratproud
Sorry I was on yahoo setting my teams for the race this weekend.
Yes the house/senate have passed it and it's up to perry now.
phone # is listed up the thread for a toll free call to tell him what you think.
I called yesterday and the lady that amwered the phone sounded tired and like she had hear what I said about a gazillion times already and that was at 12:30.
HAHAHAHA!!
At least he voted against it. Better than mine did.
amwered=answered
What's wrong with them is that they've got big political contributors in business who want their local property taxes lowered, and who want the cost pushed off onto individual taxpayers through a payroll tax, as a standin for a state income tax. They've been working on this for 13 years, ever since the late Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby got all the newspapers to go along with a drumbeating campaign for "tax reform" ( = "state income tax"). The idea lost badly then, but now the money boys are back and they want what they paid up front for. They want their taxes lowered, they want service with a smile, and they want it right this minute.
That's what's going on. Cost reduction for business by putting it off on someone else who can't fight back because they don't have senators -- they've all been bought up.
Like Kyle Janek and Florence Shapiro and the rest of the Business Lobby RiNO's.
The very last people that people like that will listen to is voters who don't have $100,000,000 in the bank.
A lot of them are Phil Gramm clones. Especially Kyle Janek -- he is the worst of both worlds.
Florence I don't know about -- you people up in Dallas, tell me about her. But I'm getting vibrations that she's been the spearpoint in this, all along. She's the person -- she and Dewhurst -- that the business people went to, to get them what they want.
That will work too.
So has this passed ?!?!?!?
They've been after this for quite a while .... some of them, the lobbyists, going all the way back to 1991 and the big campaign back then for a "tax structure overhaul" to "make taxes fairer" (higher), and whatever else they were talking about back then.
And with multibillion-dollar boondoggles like Gov. Rick's supertrain on the back burner, you know that that is what they want to spend it on, not more DPS troopers or probation officers or jail bunks -- something people could get behind.
Please remove me from your ping list.
Dave
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