The Search for a Less Unpopular School Tax
Some Texans want to kill property taxes. Some want to create a new one.
Right in the middle of a policy debate over whether to swap property taxes for higher sales taxes and weeks before a state district court in Austin hears the latest round of challenges to the state’s public school finance system, it’s still possible that lawmakers will get another look at an issue they put to bed years ago: a statewide property tax.
They would have to repeal a constitutional prohibition against that tax. Voters hate property taxes, and politicians are nothing if not receptive ...
Comments (4)
Fred Talmadge
People hate property taxes because they get a big bill and it looks scary. Get over it that's what it costs. I know I sure don't want to fill in some complicated form and file income taxes. Besides all the loopholes they can hind in the rules, the increased bureaucracy to administer I'll stick with property taxes.
briana bstone08
generally high sales taxes have a disproportionate impact on the poor. something else that could have been explored in this article.
j. davis
The TTRA report that is cited and linked in the article points out that before Senator Duncan's 2011 state property tax proposals, proposals to impose a state property tax for education were filed in 1991, 1992, 1997, 2005, and 2007.
gypsy314 ne
School vouchers and quit paying the bill for illegal aliens to go to school on tax payers money.