Posted on 11/06/2019 12:50:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Texas voters on Tuesday approved an amendment to the state’s constitution banning an income tax.
While Texas is already one of seven states that does not have an income tax, the amendment will make it extremely difficult to impose the tax in the future.
“Today’s passage of Prop 4 is a victory for taxpayers across the Lone Star State,” said Republican Governor Greg Abbot. “I am grateful to Rep. Jeff Leach for his bold leadership on this issue, and for the overwhelming majority of Texans who voted to ensure that our great state will always be free of a state income tax.
“This ban on such a disastrous tax will keep our economy prosperous, protect taxpayers, and ensure that Texas remains the best state to live, work, and raise a family,” Abbot continued.
The Texas government currently derives most of its revenue from sales and property taxes.
Leach, who authored the amendment, said his initiative will make it “virtually impossible” to impose an income tax. The amendment requires two thirds of the state House and Senate to repeal the amendment and call a statewide election in order to approve the tax.
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If TX ever turns Blue, it will be impossible for Democrats to impose a state income tax.
What’s scary is 27% voted against the amendment. Going blue is only a matter of time here... All major cities except for Ft. Worth are blue and have been for decades and Ft. Worth voted for Beto in the mid-terms.
Certainly there is a judge somewhere to put an end to this kind of nonsense—people voting to limit a state’s ability to pick their pockets.
“the amendment will make it extremely difficult to impose the tax in the future.”
exactly. Especially with all these obamatard/klintoon judges lately who think they are above the Constitution..
Texans hate paying taxes so seeing it pass by a landslide came as no surprise.
“If TX ever turns Blue, it will be impossible for Democrats to impose a state income tax.”
If the democrats take over, the Constitution doesn’t matter.
Wow! This is HUGELY GOOD. It’s the polar opposite of Illinois state’s Constitutional provision protecting government employees’ pensions which is HUGELY BAD.
The red state Texas protects the taxpayers and the blue state Illinois protects the RULER/OVERLORDS of the taxpayers who are, in effect, slaves of the government employees.
Some theorize that some of those voters thought they were voting against a state income tax and that a vote "for" the amendment was "for" an income tax.
I wouldn’t put it past some Clinton/Obama federal judge to throw it out for some liberal group’s favored pet project. Already happened in NV.
If Democrats want to raise taxes, they can simply go shopping for a friendly federal judge who will do their bidding.
I’m paying $5,000 a year in Taxes on a average $270,000 Texan home.
We must not hate paying taxes that much.
It was deceptively worded and I'm sure many thought they were voting for it but were actually voting against it.
I think that many voters did not understand what they were voting for. This amendment was written a bit skewed so you had to really read it.
Texas wasn’t conservative in the voting for the most part as they gave into all the let’s have more and bigger $$$$ handouts.
This is a good thing, it doesn’t make it impossible for the lefties to enact one in the future but they’ll at least have to get another amendment past the people to get their money grab. Florida passed an amendment in 1924 banning income taxes. The dems would love to get one in Florida but the state constitution is too hard for them to get around.
I know some people who fit that category.
Texans still need to bear in mind that, like taxpayers in all other states, they are still paying unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Texas needs to support PDJT in leading the rest of the states to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes. After unconstitutional taxes are stopped, then Texas and all the other states will ultimately find new state revenues to experiment with the kind of state social spending programs that the legal majority citizen voters of each state want.
Justice Brandaeis had indicated the following about 10th Amendment-protected state power to care for the people.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
(Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.)
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
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