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Property owners bear significantly more of the Texas tax burden than the rest of the population. We are, indeed, a low-tax state for most citizens. We do not have a state income tax, and we want to keep it that way.

The property tax burden is particularly acute in Travis County. Much of the property that would otherwise be taxable is completely off the tax rolls because it's state office buildings and facilities. So when somebody of this mindset votes in, for instance, Dallas County, they're merely sticking themselves in the arm with a paring knife. In Travis County, however, when this airhead voted "for everything that would make this city better," she was taking a three-foot chainsaw to her own throat and pulling the trigger.

For a county of its size, Travis County has a laughably thin property tax base. Most of it is single-family dwellings and retail establishments...near zero heavy industry to fade the property tax heat on the average homeowner. So when you vote for local bond issues in Travis County, you might as well give yourself a financial enema with TNT. Cuz that's what you're doing. ;-)

They will soon be building light-rail that will cost tens of millions or more and be used by a tiny fraction of people that is supposedly to “reduce the vehicle traffic”. They’d be better off buying a fleet of public limousines