Taxpayers torqued by increasing property tax rates and burdens need to start taking action at their city hall.
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Central Texas Schools Consider Tax Hikes
Pencils? Check. Backpack? Check. Tax hikes? If school districts in central Texas get their wish, parents will be adding higher taxes to their cost of sending their children back to school. And to help their cause, local educrats are pushing for ratification elections...
TBC: No New Taxes
Opposing new taxes and fees seems logical given the current state of the economy, but expecting legislators to use logic might be a bit too much to ask. However, the Texas Budget Compact – and Texas voters – are asking. Last session, legislators patted themselves on...
Double For Nothing
Democrats and other big spenders have never seemed to mind raising your property taxes, so long as they could say it’s for the children. Apparently San Antonio’s liberal Democrat Mayor Julian Castro has no problem raising your sales taxes either – for the children of...
What’s Wrong With The System
Frisco ISD board members unanimously approved their new budget for next year that includes a 4-cent tax increase. Should a school district that hasn’t spent more than 38% of their funding on instruction since 2004 hike taxes? Unfortunately for Frisco taxpayers, they...
AISD Needs A Fiscal Responsibility Refresher Course
Austin ISD approved a new $724 million budget for the upcoming school year that includes a 3% salary increase for all district employees. But in order to make those raises permanent, it will require hiking property taxes to pay for it -- which several board members...
Attention Hutto Taxpayers
Attention Hutto taxpayers: before signing off on a massive property tax hike at the whims of your school district, consider just how poorly Hutto ISD has been spending your money over the past decade. Hutto ISD has been the media’s favorite example of a school...
Straus’ Tax-Man
When it comes to the hard truth about taxes in Texas, House Speaker Joe Straus has surrounded himself with a merry band of tax-hiking moderates. And few on the Straus team are more moderate, or more excited to raise taxes, than State Rep. Jim Keffer. Jim Keffer is in...
Todd Smith Will Say Anything (Then Raise Taxes)
As a trial lawyer and politician, Todd Smith says whatever people want to hear. Too bad for them that he's saying different things. The problem for Todd Smith is that folks are starting to compare notes about what he says... and none of it is good for Texas. In...
Big-Tax Todd
Well, the Dallas Morning News gets credit for being honest. Their endorsement in the Senate District 9 open-seat Republican primary contest is based on their desire for a Republican to champion tax increases. And in Todd Smith, they have their tax-hiking man. Texans...