Posted on 02/14/2013 1:41:38 PM PST by Sic Parvis Magna
Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a declared candidate for the 2014 lieutenant governor's race, did not rule out supporting a statewide property tax to benefit public education funding, and he said that Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has lost his "ability to sell" the issues.
Patterson, who made his comments Thursday during a TribLive conversation, said a statewide property tax, rather than local property taxes, “might be the answer” to the financing inequities in different counties. Such a move would require that a constitutional prohibition against that tax to be repealed.
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To put it simply, calling for a NEW TAX usually doesn’t do very well in any state, much less Texas. And this is simply because new taxes almost always lead to new spend, as has been proven time and again, by state after state.
Now, if you wanted to toll our highways, and charge everyone 20 cents per mile to drive on them, NO PROBLEM, at least as far as our governor is concerned.
Find some other way to fix the tax problem but if Patterson gets behind a State income tax then he can just KMA and I will make it a point to vote for anybody but him should he run for statewide office. I’ve liked him in the past but this is just too important an issue to me for me to just accept it just because he happens to like it.
If politicians really wanted to improve education, they would do away with government run schools and let parents choose a private school for their kids. Rich folks can pay their own way, and poor folks get a voucher from the state. (Better still, poor folks would get donations from rich folks and businesses.)
I doubt I will live to see this happen, but I can dream. Government has failed miserably at education, and it just gets worse every year.
The state wide tax for public schools has worked so well so let’s do it for property. /s/ With Robin Hood we went from a few bad schools to all of them being bad.
Listened to a speech Jerry gave last Saturday night at a Lincoln Dinner. He is totally invested in granting a brand new guest worker program for illegals.
Supporting more illegals and more taxes moved him from a maybe to a DEFINITE NO WAY JOSEA!
Hey Neighbor! How’re ya’ doin’?
Agree completely. Seems we've witnessed another RINO transformation. Bye bye Jerry. Thanks for the CCH law but it's time for you to move on. Scat....
Our properties are taxed for education, 25% of our fuel taxes go to education, and the lottery (a tax on dumb people)was passed as a way to fund education. I see ISD's building their little empires where the superintendents bring in 6-figure salaries and that of their bureaucratic entourage is almost equal. Teachers, OTOH, seem to be on the bottom of the financial pecking order. I say, enough is enough.
Here's a thought - STOP PISSIN' OFF THE MONEY THEY GET NOW!
Schools are horribly administrator heavy, and every classroom seems to 'need' every new technological gizmo that hits the shelves.
And don't get me started on how Texas has failed to tell the feds to take a hike as far as educating our kids go. I'd be willing to bet a good part of our expenses comes from having to satisfy federal 'regulations'.
For that matter...stop the buses! The State is required to 'provide a free education', NOT transportation, NOT meals, NOT after school or before school daycare.
We survived just fine and were better educated over a century ago when the kids only had what they brought in metal lunch-pails and all the lessons were based on a few hardbound books!
Raising taxes [or changing the tax structure so that taxes are increased] does nothing but encourage continued overspending, IMHO.
I don’t care how many guns you tote in your boot.
RINO’s got to go.
I'm not interested in power amassing in liberal Austin.
/johnny
I am your number one in the fight to get Dewhurst out.
Let us know what Patterson says.
But if he supports amassing taxation power in liberal Austin.... adios... I speak enough kitchen spanish to undermine any liberal GOP-E candidate in my local neighborhood if he's counting on a bump from the hispanics.
/johnny
Hey! I’m fine-but I’m not into paying another property tax-I’m going to add my voice to the noise on that one...
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