Every citizen who benefits from living in Texas should pay their fair share UP FRONT, not through some backdoor tax.
AMEN and there is a simple, direct, and non intrusive way for them to do just that!
How about we do away with all other taxes, broaden the base of the sales tax to include services (the fastest growing segment of our society BTW), and cut the sales tax rate to around 4 percent. ALL Texas government entities would be funded at least as well as they currently are, probably better, and no single segment would be singled out to pay the freight!