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Gov. Greg Abbott Calls Immediate Special Session on Property Taxes and Border Security
The Texas Scorecard ^ | 05/29/2023 | Branden Waltens

Posted on 05/30/2023 10:47:56 AM PDT by thegagline

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Abbott is a man of action.

For those of you who think that Texas is a low tax paradise, it isn’t in regards to property taxes. My primary residence property tax is $17,000 a year. The majority of which goes towards the school district.

1 posted on 05/30/2023 10:47:56 AM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Phelan, the Speaker of the Texas House, is a jackass Rino. But Abbott is a governor of which any Texan could be proud.


2 posted on 05/30/2023 10:53:18 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: thegagline

“The border security call also does not include language regarding a border protection unit,“

Yeah it’s only the most important part of it by far. Abbott is way more Pence than he is Trump. It’s good he’s doing this but we need a fire breather.


3 posted on 05/30/2023 11:04:32 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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17k? You live where?

I have 3 properties and not even close to that. Henderson County.


4 posted on 05/30/2023 11:11:44 AM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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To: thegagline

When I retired we looked very carefully at the property tax situation—and that is the reason we decided not to move to Texas.

Property tax is a critical line item in our budget—and we viewed it as a “high risk” one in Texas.

We had zero confidence that either the feds or the state would get the illegal invasion issue under control.


5 posted on 05/30/2023 11:15:37 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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Property tax is a critical line item in our budget—and we viewed it as a “high risk” one in Texas.

if it's high risk in TX, then I wonder what it is in NYS? :)

6 posted on 05/30/2023 11:20:44 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: thegagline

“Action?” Seriously? I thought.... “Action!” when they made the video of him declaring an invasion.... or a campaign video.
But you mean “action,” like he’s doing something? At the time it matters? In the way it matters to make a difference?


7 posted on 05/30/2023 11:25:28 AM PDT by Phinneous (By the way, there are Seven Laws for you too! Noahide.org)
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To: waterhill

Austin. For the music and the food. You can find my house as it is the only one with the American flag out front. As an aside, a neighbor had an upside down very large Ukrainian Flag out front. It was comically upside down for weeks. The same neighbor also had “Riden With Biden” signs in his yard. He eventually righted the flag and removed the Biden signs.


8 posted on 05/30/2023 11:26:38 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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I’ve been shopping houses to buy in TX. The property taxes stopped me like a pic of The View in Speedos.


9 posted on 05/30/2023 11:27:07 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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Got my gloves on and saying “the damned property taxes are too damned high”


10 posted on 05/30/2023 11:30:12 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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I’ve been shopping houses to buy in TX. The property taxes stopped me like a pic of The View in Speedos.

LOL. Thanks for the visual.

11 posted on 05/30/2023 11:44:57 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: thegagline

Looks to me like Gov. Abbott is a Man of Hat. Not a Man of Cattle.


12 posted on 05/30/2023 12:00:57 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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I used to love Austin.

Stay safe Friend.


13 posted on 05/30/2023 12:06:26 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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I knew the Texas property taxes were high, but they were still lower than the California state income tax plus property tax I was paying before.

-PJ

14 posted on 05/30/2023 12:07:10 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: thegagline

Abbott just figured out that property taxes here are high?


15 posted on 05/30/2023 12:08:08 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bigbob

Texas Governors are very limited, as per the Texas Constitution. It can be a good thing sometimes...


16 posted on 05/30/2023 12:10:01 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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But I don’t recommend Henderson County: we have rattlesnakes and wild hogs, scorpions, cactus, cotton mouth, copperhead, alligators, puma and sasquatch and lots of bull nettle and poison ivy. It’s horrible!


17 posted on 05/30/2023 12:15:37 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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And the crows and Bluejays are very annoying.


18 posted on 05/30/2023 12:19:58 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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I failed to mention the Black Widows and tarantulas and brown recluse spiders.

And bats, badgers, and fire ants and paper wasps, snapping turtles.

And it just gets plain freaking hot.


19 posted on 05/30/2023 12:27:23 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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And yotes , skunks and whitetail playing chicken on the roads.

It’s bad, stay where you are!


20 posted on 05/30/2023 12:30:37 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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