Right Economic StimulusSubmitted by MQSullivan on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 2:42pm.
A coalition of conservative Texas legislators today announced their fiscal priorities for the session "to help keep our economy strong and growing" by noting that the economic climate has been caused by "poor decision-making in Washington D.C. and lack of responsibility on Wall Street." High on their list: real reductions in property taxes. The Texas Conservative Coalition, led by State Rep. Wayne Christian, released their priorities in a letter to Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Speaker Joe Straus, and their fellow lawmakers. In writing about the need for property tax relief, the lawmakers note, "The best short-term policies are to alleviate the strain of appraisal increases by adopting proposals recommended by the Select Property Tax Relief and Appraisal Reform Committee, and to make sure deposits into the Property Tax Relief fund are protected against being diverted to the general budget." Among other items, they are also calling on their fellow legislators to mitigate the harmful business tax by increasing the payment threshold and to prevent a raid on the Rainy Day Fund for new spending programs: "we must not dip into the Rainy Day Fund except for one-time, emergency appropriations that are directly related to Hurricane Ike recovery." The coalition is also seeking tighter spending restraint: "We must not increase spending beyond necessary increases in public education and human services enrollment, and should look for ways to reduce spending in extraneous programs. A revised tax and expenditure limitation is also vital to protect the state from the consequences of unbridled spending that has driven California to the brink of bankruptcy." Bookmark/Search this post with: |
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Property tax relief is a
Property tax relief is a good thing, stopping spending increases is a good thing, but the bigger bang for the buck would be electric regulation. Deregulated electricity is not working and needs to be fixed. They broke it and they need to fix it. Just look at how much cheaper electricity is in Oklahoma than Texas, 5 cents per kwh. In other words instead of 12 cents they pay 7 cents.
Utility Regulation
You are absolutely right. All utilities in Texas ought to be regulated for the benefit of the users and not the utilities. The Texas Legislature should repeal all of the add-ons to utility bills (also known as subsidies for the utility companies) Consumers would find they actually have a reasonable and fair bill that reflects the natural gas or electricity they actually used. Ditto for Verizon and AT&T. Outrage!! But, our Texas Senators and Representatives are not listening to us.
Texas Leg and spending
We DO NOT need increased or new spending for human services or for public schools. Is the Texas Legislature crazy? The only way to get rid of welfare programs is to stop spending money on them and get rid of welfare spending altogether. Public school districts are robbing taxpayers, particularly homeowners. They continue to rob us because the Texas legislature will not end state spending for public schools and make each school district responsible for its own school funding. Each school district ought to get its funding ONLY from the families who send their children to public schools. That includes renters of all sorts and homeowners. You can't get the money from a tax, because renters do not pay any school taxes. Instead, each district ought to charge a fee, payable at annual enrollment. No fee, no schooling. I am sick to death of paying for sloppy, anti-intellectual "education" for punks, riff-raff, idiots, and illegal aliens and their "anchor babies", also illegals despite the whining of the ACLU and Socialist-Liberals. Enough is enough!!!! Every school district should be self-supported ONLY by the people who use the school district. That is what tax payers want!!
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