Tax increases are made solely by local government officials when they set a new tax rate each summer for their coming fiscal year.

Tax increases are made solely by local government officials when they set a new tax rate each summer for their coming fiscal year.
Texas Democrats tried to make the case that State Rep. Ryan Guillen is leaving the party because his newly drawn district lines would make it hard to gain re-election as a Democrat, but that doesn’t fit the facts as much as it fits Democrat excuse-making and fantasy.
Odessa College’s piano purchase is a perversion of what funding for local distance learning is meant to be.
How should Republicans handle this in the press and public eye?
“Those who claim the solution to a problem is always more money or more government regulation … are demonstrably wrong.”
“The bill does not restrain school lessons on racism, its ugliness, or its existence; the bill attempts to restrain one nasty form of bigotry and racism from being introduced as a supposed cure for another.”
What some call a “stunt” was consequential for Lubbock taxpayers and instructive for every conservative county commissioner in Texas.
“It is a policy I generally favor but, even liking the idea, I cannot support it without knowing the detail.”
If legislators fail and agree on 5% for the election trigger, then your property taxes can easily double in about 14 years. And remember, that means a 50% tax increase in just 7 years!
Since local government officials across the state are on a full-court press to prevent passage of property tax appraisal reform legislation, I think it important to press back. What is being claimed by either ignorant or dishonest city and county officials across...