Posted on 05/25/2006 6:40:39 AM PDT by jpsb
If they appropiate money then they can mandate its use. And they do have the authority to institute a 65% solution.
Sure they can. The question is, should they? Or is your local school board too stupid to figure out how much money ought to be committed to classroom education?
Yes they should. Beats raising taxes.
Besides if we went to a 65% solution and then restrict spending to increases of inflation and population growth. Then we could go to letting your appraisals end and just using hte last sale price as your appraisal. Get rid of the appraisal boards all together.
Yeah. That means revenue will barely budge for state schools, which is fine if the population stays stable.
You are proposing the California solution, which works for California because it also imposes a 10% personal income tax.
Population is not staying stable and you know it. Second this can be solved easily by cutting th ebloated school and state budgets. Trim the fat, make government live on a tight budget the same way they do us. There is a back lash coming against Austin. and It will be fun to watch.
The Strayhorn solution.
Here's some news: the legislature cut $2 billion out of the state budget two years ago. There's nothing but fat left to cut.
You simply will not concede that there's anything you can do at the local level. Too lazy to fight against your school board, I guess.
There is no fat left to cut. The budget jsut went up 19% in two years. There is more fat on that baby then Jabba the Hut.
I was not aware. I'll check it out.
Thanks.
Never forget who ignored our plea:
Resolution Opposing House Bill 3
Whereas, the Texas Legislature recently passed House Bill 3 (HB 3), which enacts a new Business Tax, expanding the Franchise Tax, during its current Special Session, and,
Whereas, the Republican Party of Texas has opposed the current State Franchise Tax in its State Party Platform for the past 14 years, specifically stating the following: "The party urges the repeal of the State Franchise Tax, which is nothing more than an income tax," and,
Whereas, the Texas State Government has the largest surplus, $8.2 billion, in its history, which could be used to buy down the property tax rates without requiring this new Business Tax, and,
Whereas, HB 3 is a new and permanent Business Tax which expands the current Texas Franchise Tax to hundreds of thousands of businesses, and,
Whereas, Texas will be the only state in the nation to tax businesses on their gross margin, which is extremely inequitable due to diversity of businesses, and
Whereas, a Margin Tax means that even if a business makes little or no profit, or loses money, then that business would still have to pay the Margin Tax, and,
Whereas, this dramatic business tax increase would be shouldered on the backs of small businesses, which create most of the new jobs and drive the engine of our state's economy, leading to an economic decline and the loss of jobs for Texans, and,
Whereas, HB 3 is the largest tax increase in Texas history and it is a permanent tax which will likely be increased in future legislatures, and,
Whereas, HB 3 is an end run around the Texas Constitution's prohibition against a state income tax and an attempt to confiscate the citizens of their income by government fiat without allowing the citizens of Texas to exercise their constitutional right to vote on whether on not they will allow the state to tax their income, and,
Therefore, Let It Be Resolved, that the Harris County Republican Party opposes the new Business Tax enacted in HB 3 and calls upon Governor Perry to veto it.
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