I live in Texas. I’m down for any candidate besides “Wheels”.
However, the “eliminate property taxes” line gives me pause. There has to be a mechanism that funds roads, police, emergency services, schools, and infrastructure - especially at the city/county level. Unless he has a viable PLAN for alternative funding, this is just a hollow campaign promise. And I think we’ve all had just about enough of that.
Found the real Texan. Our infrastructure heavily rely on property taxes. This is why damn near everybody who climbs out of the lower class and start buying property end up voting red.
No property taxes is an attention grabber, but doesn’t seem feasible. Do we have an issue with rising property taxes, absolutely. Does a state income tax pick up the slack? Food tax? Even higher sales tax? That tax revenue isn’t going away, it just may have a different name.
Also, I think this guy is from the Huffines car dealership family.
Reducing government spending is the key to reducing taxes. The less they spend, the less they need to take from us, or borrow from the federal reserve, the less in debt the country will be.
However, telling the government to spend less or tax less is harder than convincing a transwoman they aren't a real woman.
YOU get it. Awesome!! Our country started out with allodial titles and as I understand it, the feds got the people to agree to 2 years of property taxation following WW2 to help with the war debt. Well, that time came and went, no further discussion and look where we are now.
Property taxation gives the criminals running the towns a ready pot of cash to blow on their Agenda 21 projects as well as piss it all away. Stop that taxation and all of that comes to a screeching halt. These filth are taking in $250K in parking meters and fines. There's no accountability.
So, keep immoral property taxes because the government won’t know what to do with themselves? Property taxes are an abomination. The government would do just fine without it.
There's already sales, franchise, real estate, hotel and gas taxes in Texas. Don't be fooled, they make millions a year even excluding the property tax.
If you compare property taxes to income taxes of another state it really boils down to the same percentages. The only reason I'm OK with property taxes over income taxes is that it's the people that can afford it are the ones paying the taxes, not the poorest that don't have enough to own a house. On the flip side of it, renters end up paying higher rent when property taxes go up. Economics is complicated.....
Several years ago, Dan Patrick made a decent point in favor of having an income tax replace property taxes: if you lose your job, you lower your income tax payments, but you'd be stuck with paying the full property tax.
I feel like this goes back to Trump insisting we are over taxed. I really am starting to believe this with all of the pork the federal gov has been shoveling through since the big lie. I have no doubt this is done at lower gov levels as well. Politicians enriching themselves at our expense.
I have friends in San Francisco who would make side money biding to provide the city with supplies, since by law they had to have it open to bid.
Their strategy? Find the item on Amazon, and offer to sell it at a higher price to the city, which still ended up being lowest bidder from time to time.
Here in NY, NJ, and CT, the school portion of the property tax is 3x or more the amount that goes to city and county. They spend more than $20,000 per student, per year in the public schools! Essentially the same education can be obtained at a southern school for $8-10,000 per year. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/per-pupil-spending-by-state
I live in Texas. I’m down for any candidate besides “Wheels”.
However, the “eliminate property taxes” line gives me pause. There has to be a mechanism that funds roads, police, emergency services, schools, and infrastructure - especially at the city/county level. Unless he has a viable PLAN for alternative funding, this is just a hollow campaign promise. And I think we’ve all had just about enough of that.
Found the real Texan. Our infrastructure heavily rely on property taxes. This is why damn near everybody who climbs out of the lower class and start buying property end up voting red.
No property taxes is an attention grabber, but doesn’t seem feasible. Do we have an issue with rising property taxes, absolutely. Does a state income tax pick up the slack? Food tax? Even higher sales tax? That tax revenue isn’t going away, it just may have a different name.
Also, I think this guy is from the Huffines car dealership family.
Reducing government spending is the key to reducing taxes. The less they spend, the less they need to take from us, or borrow from the federal reserve, the less in debt the country will be.
However, telling the government to spend less or tax less is harder than convincing a transwoman they aren't a real woman.
No property taxes is basically Allodial title.
I love that idea. Texas would be a tax haven.
YOU get it. Awesome!! Our country started out with allodial titles and as I understand it, the feds got the people to agree to 2 years of property taxation following WW2 to help with the war debt. Well, that time came and went, no further discussion and look where we are now.
Property taxation gives the criminals running the towns a ready pot of cash to blow on their Agenda 21 projects as well as piss it all away. Stop that taxation and all of that comes to a screeching halt. These filth are taking in $250K in parking meters and fines. There's no accountability.
So, keep immoral property taxes because the government won’t know what to do with themselves? Property taxes are an abomination. The government would do just fine without it.
Replace property taxes with what? Income tax? Piss on that. Dude is blowing smoke.
There's already sales, franchise, real estate, hotel and gas taxes in Texas. Don't be fooled, they make millions a year even excluding the property tax.
If you compare property taxes to income taxes of another state it really boils down to the same percentages. The only reason I'm OK with property taxes over income taxes is that it's the people that can afford it are the ones paying the taxes, not the poorest that don't have enough to own a house. On the flip side of it, renters end up paying higher rent when property taxes go up. Economics is complicated.....
Found the commie.
Economics is simple: TANSTAAFL and stop stealing.
Several years ago, Dan Patrick made a decent point in favor of having an income tax replace property taxes: if you lose your job, you lower your income tax payments, but you'd be stuck with paying the full property tax.
I feel like this goes back to Trump insisting we are over taxed. I really am starting to believe this with all of the pork the federal gov has been shoveling through since the big lie. I have no doubt this is done at lower gov levels as well. Politicians enriching themselves at our expense.
I have friends in San Francisco who would make side money biding to provide the city with supplies, since by law they had to have it open to bid.
Their strategy? Find the item on Amazon, and offer to sell it at a higher price to the city, which still ended up being lowest bidder from time to time.
Here in NY, NJ, and CT, the school portion of the property tax is 3x or more the amount that goes to city and county. They spend more than $20,000 per student, per year in the public schools! Essentially the same education can be obtained at a southern school for $8-10,000 per year. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/per-pupil-spending-by-state
I read what you said with a Texas accent. Well done.
What accent?
TxBeeLady of course. You can read something that a Texan writes out in a Texan accent lol.
I’m teasing.... I should have noted that.