The Legislature had the money available to pay down debt before a deadline, but now they have to pay the debt with interest, amounting to millions of more dollars.

The Legislature had the money available to pay down debt before a deadline, but now they have to pay the debt with interest, amounting to millions of more dollars.
What started as a meaningful relief effort for workers and families morphed, as it so often does, into a ride-along for unrelated—and a few ridiculous—provisions designed to benefit certain lawmakers or expand the bureaucracy.
The Texas House is currently on track to fail to deliver meaningful property tax reform and relief to the Texans who elected them.
The prospects for property tax reform hang in the balance.