The Texas House Ways and Means Committee passed a property tax limit bill by a 8 to 1 margin last Thursday to advance it to the full House for a vote. San Antonio Express-News
City mayors and lobbying organizations immediately started crying that the sky would fall and local governments would fail.
Paul Bonnen, Ways and Means Chair, R-Angleton said: “It doesn’t make it where a city or a county can’t continue to manage their communities and meet the needs of their communities, but it does provide an absolute protection for the taxpayer if for some reason those budgets get a little out of control.”
The mayors and their surrogates immediately tried to refocus the discussion on school taxes. That is just a "red herring" to try and deflect the focus away from themselves and their responsibility to be conservative stewards of the taxpayers money.
This bill being passed out of the House Ways and Means Committee is a major event along the path to eventual passage of a bill constraining local governments from increasing taxes over a thresh hold without explicit taxpayer approval.
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