Perry's Call for Tax Relief is Subject of Confusion
Gov. Rick Perry’s call for lawmakers to offer $1.8 billion in tax relief provided a big applause line in his State of the State speech to the Legislature. But the details of that proposal are prompting confusion over what the governor has in mind.
Perry was vague during Tuesday's address to the Legislature. He alluded to the Rainy Day Fund when he said that the session would lead to “billions still on the table” after lawmakers had funded essential services to meet the state’s needs. The fund is projected to amass $11.8 billion by the ...
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Omar Jimenez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Where will the money come from?
Chris Jonsson
I want our roads and bridges fixed with that money. Our public school system should have budget cuts restored. Fund Planned Parenthood.
We have no state tax. Can't get any lower than that. I bet Perry will give money to companies to relocate here. Eventually all those budget cuts will make Texas a bad place to live and nobody will want to move here.
Chris Jonsson
That tax estimator is a sham. You can't make suggestions, you have to chose from a short list of budget cuts mostly for businesses. That's great. Lure more people down here to crowd our already bumper to bumper highways and streets and go to our overcrowded underfunded schools and use more water which is scarce. Come on down and get some good old Texas polluted air, water, and land. Come on down and join the huddled masses in emergency rooms and wait for treatment.
Our women are barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen if they have one. Our prison population is second to none. We love our freedoms down here in the greatest state in the union. Excuse me, union is a dirty word in these parts. Come see for yourself. We call it home.
Samdavis
Pandering to the TEA Party cretins again.
Carolyn Mata via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Restore funds to public schools/fund state parks/establish head start...then we'll talk...
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It is my understanding Perry wants to tap the Rainy Day Fund that in 2010 he claimed was only for emergencies. Hypocrisy much?
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Tax expenditures, cuts, deductions, abatements, subsidies are killing us and taking away state and federal services that help all Americans. This is beyond crazy.
Texas RMS
Any lawmaker who votes for this will never receive my vote again. Texas is becoming your granny's rundown old house and no one is willing to fix it.
Matthew Cowan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nope Karen, it is all the entitlement spending that you want that is killing us. You want to accept all these federal grants that we have to make up the difference once the grants end.
Tom Sweazea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Typical GOP-TP ideology. If there's a surplus, give that money to the rich.
Christina Jonsson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I want our roads and bridges fixed with that money. Our public school system should have budget cuts restored. Fund Planned Parenthood.
We have no state tax. Can't get any lower than that. I bet Perry will give money to companies to relocate here. Eventually all those budget cuts will make Texas a bad place to live and nobody will want to move here.
Christina Jonsson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That tax estimator is a sham. You can't make suggestions, you have to chose from a short list of budget cuts mostly for businesses. That's great. Lure more people down here to crowd our already bumper to bumper highways and streets and go to our overcrowded underfunded schools and use more water which is scarce. Come on down and get some good old Texas polluted air, water, and land. Come on down and join the huddled masses in emergency rooms and wait for treatment.
Our women are barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen if they have one. Our prison population is second to none. We love our freedoms down here in the greatest state in the union. Excuse me, union is a dirty word in these parts. Come see for yourself. We call it home.
Jeff Sadighi via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Christina, you obviously have not traveled much in Texas! Less than 5% of the roads are crowded state-wide... Most Texans I talk to want to keep more of the money they earn because the federal government literally started taking more from them on January 1, 2013. Like the rest of us, government needs to do more with LESS and schools need to be more efficient. Here is just one way to do so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTFEUsudhfs
Kimberly York via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I want to keep more money but with all the added oilfield traffic our roads are really really bad out here. And most re two lan that are having to deal with bumper to bumper oilfield traffic
Kimberly York via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Our fatalites on the roads have almost tripled out here our roads werent made for this kind of traffic though Im not complaining the boom is great we have the lowest unemployment rate in the US!