Texas amendment results rundown
Texas amendment results rundown
Texans weighed in on property tax cuts, cost-of-living adjustments for retired public school employees, the mandatory retirement age for judges and more during the Nov. 7 election.
Good list of everything that passed and by how much.
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So we don't want higher property taxes and we don't want a wealth tax.
So how do people propose we fund schools and other infrastructure? I'm not trying to be facetious, I'm genuinely curious.
They don't think, and 82% of people don't vote. And if they do vote, they're going to the polls without any prior knowledge on what they're voting on. They enter the poll booth to read the proposal description for the first time and decide on the spot. Very few of us are reading guides and researching to read through the bullshit description to make sensible votes. Its a fucking joke and its by design for those in power.
Republicans pinky-promised they would find the funding somewhere. That's apparently good enough for a lot of people.
Property taxes are based on home values which have doubled over the last ten years, this is just relief from that. People are being priced out of their homes right now. If there was a state income tax instead revenue would have fallen due to wages not keeping up with inflation.
revenue would have fallen due to wages not keeping up with inflation.
So you're saying that if we had an income tax, it would be in the government's interest to promote higher wages? That sounds like the opposite of a problem.
Promote higher wages for the middle class, yes. The bottom half pay nothing anyway. You’d have to hugely increase minimum wage to make a tax difference.