-- Greg Abbott once again has a corporation's back, this time against the people who were seriously injured, and occasionally killed -- probably intentionally -- by a neurosurgeon.
This is a pattern. Abbott doesn't care about you unless you're a company. Or maybe a fetus.
-- Glenn Hegar, the Republican running for state comptroller (a word he cannot articulate) has proposed replacing state property taxes with a sales tax. It would need to be a sales tax of about 20-25%, in order to be revenue neutral. Once he was saying "just do it", but now that the math has been presented to him, he thinks maybe we should go a little slower.
If you can't correctly pronounce the office you seek, and math comes slow for you, then perhaps you don't deserve to be elected the state's accountant. That's all we're saying.
EOW and BOR with more.
-- Leticia Van de Putte kicks off her spring Texas tour.
LVDP was extensively profiled in the San Antonio Current recently. She rolls into H-Town on April 5, when she will meet privately with us bloggers ahead of the rally. We're getting to be kind of a big deal, in case you hadn't noticed.
This is a pattern. Abbott doesn't care about you unless you're a company. Or maybe a fetus.
-- Glenn Hegar, the Republican running for state comptroller (a word he cannot articulate) has proposed replacing state property taxes with a sales tax. It would need to be a sales tax of about 20-25%, in order to be revenue neutral. Once he was saying "just do it", but now that the math has been presented to him, he thinks maybe we should go a little slower.
If you can't correctly pronounce the office you seek, and math comes slow for you, then perhaps you don't deserve to be elected the state's accountant. That's all we're saying.
But the damage was done. Politically, you can’t easily replace the more than $40 billion a year that local property taxes yield by tinkering with state and local sales taxes, which currently produce about $28 billion.
If Hegar wants to be the chief tax collector and revenue estimator, he should know that.
EOW and BOR with more.
-- Leticia Van de Putte kicks off her spring Texas tour.
Van de Putte’s campaign made the announcement in an email to supporters Tuesday that provides a rough framework for the bus tour, which will kick off Sunday in San Antonio and is set to wrap up April 7 in Austin. ...
After San Antonio, the campaign bus tour will dip into the heart of South Texas, making stops in Pharr and Laredo before shifting west and trekking to El Paso. From there, the bus tour heads for events in Midland, Lubbock and Wichita Falls. ...
Van de Putte’s bus tour is also scheduled to make stops in Fort Worth, Dallas, Tyler, Lufkin, Nacogdoches, Houston and Corpus Christi before concluding in Austin.
LVDP was extensively profiled in the San Antonio Current recently. She rolls into H-Town on April 5, when she will meet privately with us bloggers ahead of the rally. We're getting to be kind of a big deal, in case you hadn't noticed.
