Posted on 02/14/2013 1:41:38 PM PST by Sic Parvis Magna
Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a declared candidate for the 2014 lieutenant governor's race, did not rule out supporting a statewide property tax to benefit public education funding, and he said that Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has lost his "ability to sell" the issues.
Patterson, who made his comments Thursday during a TribLive conversation, said a statewide property tax, rather than local property taxes, “might be the answer” to the financing inequities in different counties. Such a move would require that a constitutional prohibition against that tax to be repealed.
(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...
Well somebody has to pay for all of those illegals.
“Inequities” is a cringe word
Get a rope.
“in great demand”
how many home games in a season? 4? 5?
very true
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> I don’t like it. We’ll end up with an additional tax.
Exactly. The won’t replace the standard city, school, and county taxes; they’ll end up just adding it on top. You know I was thinking how about a politician carbon tax based upon how much they talk out of both sides of their mouth. Surely it has to be causing some serious damage to the environment and contributing to global warming...also a tax on any legislation they draft that doesn’t apply to them.../s
RH was nothing but redistribution...funny that. If we ‘removed’ the major obstacle (illegals) this might not be in the news.
The big question is whether it will cost more than RH.
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Property taxes at 2.5% per $100 valuation is what ran me out of Texas!
I pay only 1.025% here in California thanks to Howard Jarvis and his fifteen year successful effort to pass Prop. 13.
How about abolishing the TEA first? Then talk about how to fund education. The TEA is far left it make Joseph Stalin look like Thomas Jefferson. That is all the more weird in that Texas is a very conservative State. The TEA is one of the last hold overs from the bad old days when Texas was controlled by demonrats like Dolph Briscoe. I am getting ready to move back to the Houston area to retire early after years in Asia. I want the TEA gone then come to me and ask how to fund education.
This might not be all about increasing revenue so much as trying to stop school districts from committing tax fraud.
A number of school districts have committed tax fraud and stolen peoples property, mine included.
The Texas Supreme Court in all their wisdom, has been covering up for the school districts with their rulings but in doing so they may have opened the door for the Federal Courts to step in to stop the fraud.
We fixed all that school stuff when we ok’d gambling, remember?
Vote Patterson out of office next election any others with same type lame brained ideas. The problem is spending not taxation. Why do high scoops really need a huge $250K + color LED scoreboard and a brand new laptop in school for each student every year? For the students? Wrong answer. It’s to line the contractor’s pockets so they have plenty left over to pay kickbacks to the deal brokers; politicians operate this way as well; it’s just one of many ways to steal from the public coffers.
Vote Patterson out of office next election any others with same type lame brained ideas. The problem is spending not taxation. Why do high scools really need huge $250K + color LED scoreboards and a brand new laptop for each student every year? For the students? Wrong answer. It’s to line the contractor’s pockets so they have plenty left over to pay kickbacks to the deal brokers; politicians operate this way as well; it’s just one of many ways to steal from the public coffers.
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He's really not a bad guy until he started making noises like this.
I am still waiting on his office to verify that he actually is for consolidating property taxes in Austin.
/johnny
“No doubt, but you’d have to convince local voter they don’t need them, since they’re the ones voting on those bonds.”
In our area, they put a small notice about the vote in the local paper. Very few people showed up and most of them knew about it because they were the ones lobbying for it. It cost us millions and drove our taxes sky-high.
A year later, property owners were in for a shock.
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