Texas State Income Tax 'On the Table' as Austin Goes After Robin Hood School Funding Scheme

Lubbock, TX, Avalanche-Journal ^ | 02-04-03 | AP

[af_vet_rr]

We pay property taxes to cities, counties, school districts, and community college districts as well. The highest taxes are to the public schools!

And how much of those taxes are being sent to other districts because of the whole 'Robin Hood' thing? If a district gets nailed and has to start paying into that, then they have to increase the taxes just to stay at where they were before. It was poorly conceived from the beginning.

[jimt]

If the federal goobermint would do its damn job and deport the parasites glutting themselves on the taxpayers, Texas would have no budget shortfall.

[Republic of Texas]

If we simply cut all the socialist welfare crap, we'd have a budget surplus. (And we'd drive away many who came here for THAT reason) Sadly, as has already been mentioned, we are being overrun by poor socialists from the south who come here for one thing - handouts.

[Republic of Texas]

It's not PC to point out that poor kids don't learn as well because their parents don't place a priority on school. If they'd had different priorities, they wouldn't be poor in the first place.

America today is set up to keep the poor, ignorant and poor, but just happy enough not to riot, and to create NEW ignorant poor people until the socialists have a firm voting majority, if they don't already.

[Republic of Texas]

Please, we don't need SOLUTIONS, we need NEW taxes!

Yes, for the brain dead, it's sarcasm.

[Andiceman]

Here's a question to my fellow Texans on this issue:

In a related article recently it was reported that one of the "richest" districts, Eanes ISD (Westlake area of Austin) was going to be sending more money out via Robbing Hood than they were going to be able to keep for their own use. It would seem to me that if I were in charge of that district I would just REDUCE the tax rates as necessary to fund Westlake's needs without the "excess" that would be sent to other districts. Why hasn't this been proposed? Am I missing something about how this system works (probably)?

[Republic of Texas]

They have to send the money regardless of what their tax rate is, or their income. Kinda like a Mob collector. He doesn't care how bad your business is, all he wants his payment.

[Centurion2000]

Time to raise the Jolly Roger in Austin.

[Republic of Texas]

First of all, I'm referring to ILLEGAL immigrants, who after everything is considered, what they contribute and what they take from this economy, cost $50,000 per immigrant to the legal taxpayers.

Second, this is dealing with SCHOOLS, and although not every illegal is eligible for all social services, YET, they ALL send their kids to school. WE pay for that. Throw in your school lunch programs and the law that requires emergency rooms to treat EVERYONE regardless of legal status, and yes , ILLEGAL IMMIGRANS ARE BANKRUPTING TEXAS.

If this doesn't fit the PC mold, tough, it's true, and the only thing the PC/left hates more than George Bush, is the truth.

[Republic of Texas]

Putting comments in CAPS sure is more effective if you spell all the words correctly.

[PetroniDE]

Double Ping.....

I volunteer to lead any Houston convoys..

[babaloo999]

Yes, they should raise the sales tax. It's not high enough yet.

[Doctor Stochastic]

How is the Robin Hood method different from the old Gilmer-Aiken funding method? (I used to live a couple of blocks from Gilmer.)

[FITZ]

The Hispanics convert right to the “Tex-Mex” and “Texas Cowboy” ways right off the bat.

Apparently you haven't seen the voting patterns of the southern counties, places like El Paso?

[FITZ]

? Does it take into account how much an illegal immigrant puts in to the system?

Do you actually believe they are paying $5000 per year for each one of their children in taxes? Or paying their hospital bills when they come with no insurance? How much does it cost to give birth in a county hospital ---and do you honestly believe they actually pay that bill? And if so then why do the border hospitals require federal bail-outs?

It's not just illegals, many come legally ---those over 65 being sponsored by relatives to come but they get Medicaid and SSI immediately ---how many "sponosrs" actually take health insurance policies out on their elderly relatives?