[Mr. Brightside]

a $10,000 per-abortion tax on medical clinics that perform abortions and a 10 percent tax on all sodas containing sugar and a 50 percent tax on "violent video games."

He figures that these three things will replace property taxes?

Abortions will stop in Texas. Not a bad thing, but it will not be a source of revenue.

And that leave all of the property tax revenue to be replaced by a levy on coke and video games?

The rightness and wrongness of his proposal aside, I think he's nuts.

[absolootezer0]

Abortions will stop in Texas. Not a bad thing, but it will not be a source of revenue.

there, my friend, you are wrong. people will find ways to do it, and most likely, find ways to pass on the costs to the rest of you. just like they do with everything else. hospital/ doctor fees will go up, causing insurance payments to go up... like any kind of tax, the effects will be far reaching and cost the upper and middle classes more money.