Dewhurst, Straus, Perry See Opportunity for Tax Relief
In a joint appearance Wednesday, the state’s top leaders offered few specifics about legislative priorities, but Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus seemed to agree that taxes would go down.
Dewhurst was the only one who named specifics, saying lawmakers are looking at lowering business and property taxes. But Perry and Straus also suggested that tax relief was on the horizon.
“I think we have a record proving that tax relief should be a priority," Straus said. "The details of that and the potential for that are yet to be determined."
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Comments (14)
Mac Mcclure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Until the "educators" put their money in the class room rather than the Administration there should be no increased funding.
Jeff Scroggin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Tax relief? Let's not fix any of our real issues, lets fix imaginary ones so we increase our political capital. What leaders we have.
MOCK El Paso Times via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus: please save taxpayers and constituents in El Paso from local government gone wild!
Judy Raddue via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas schools are in the toilet and Rick Perry's hand is on the lever.
Katie Martinez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@mac mcclure, I'm not sure where you get your numbers from but administration is a miniscule percentage of school budgets in the districts I have looked at. The amount cut from education funding in the last session is roughly equal to the increase in TxDOTs budget over the same period. Why did we take money from schools and spend it on roads? I see a lot of massive and unneccesary road projects going on throughout the state.
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
Education, transportation infrastructure and water projects are the priority. What planet are you guys living on?
Michael Miranda
"education spending has been more than adequate over the last decade"
Yeah that's why we had all the teacher layoffs last year due to lack of funds for the schools.
Could it be the more educated people are the more they tend to vote Democrat over Republican?
Doris Murdock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Is our children learning?
Jerry Andrews
No surprise that "Governor Um, what's that third thing?" would clumsily say I'm not gonna answer the question about education spending in the last 2 years and instead will chose to answer about the last 10 years. If you don't like the question, answer a different question...that is the oldest slick rick trick in the book. Reality, we spent $5B less on education in the last 2 years. Proposed solution? Cut business and property tax. What? The Perry response of cut taxes because we spend enough on education is the equivalent of saying there is forest fire over there, better go dump some gasoline on it. It makes no sense. Still, if Perry and company get their way, the electorate will be too uneducated to recognize when they are being feed a line of bull.
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
All you folks in North and West Texas. When you're lining up at the water truck to get your drinking water, thank these three guys. When your ranch house catches on fire and you can't put it out, thank these three guys. When your stuck on the interstate in bumper to bumper traffic and the nearest town is 25 miles away, thank these guys. When your kid is sitting for a third of the school year practicing how to bubble an answer sheet, thank these guys. When your kid's music or art teacher gets cut, thank these guys. Meanwhile, enjoy the $50.00 tax rebate you get from the State of Texas and revel in your freedom. When you turn around and have to pay that $50.00 to a private company to drive 50 miles on a toll road, because these guys thought you should have your money back, thank these guys. And when all of the state services have been completely turned over to private corporations, then the hatred of government the Republican Party has so successfully stoked for the past 30 years, will ultimately be turned on the corporations that have become the government of the State of Texas.
Edie Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas has a structural budget deficit that continues to grow. The business tax has not generated the revenue promised, but Perry is promising tax cuts. Here we go again...
Elizabeth Thomas
Texas is so not getting it done on education.http://reportcard.studentsfirst.org/state-detail?state=Texas&utm_medium=email&utm_source=StudentsFirst&utm_content=Get+the+grade+Find+out+how+well+STATENAMEyour+state+is+doing+on+everything+from+education+spending+to+school+choice&utm_campaign=20130107ReportCardLaunch&source=20130107ReportCardLaunch
Dale Curry
The republicans continue to fail to adequately fund public education. The very taxes they are proposing to cuts are the very ones that have failed to adequately fund the State's operations. It would appear our "leaders" are more concerned with their rhetoric than the citizens they supposedly represent.
Jim Baxa
Eliminate the margins tax and the property tax. That is what will grow Texas. To do so will require some major spending cuts by all levels of govt, which is far overdue.