Perry unveils tax cut proposal to cheers, warnings

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2445405

Gov. Rick Perry unveiled his tax cut proposal in Houston today to a frenzied welcome from supporters and dire warnings from opponents.

Perry wants to limit home appraisal increases to 3 percent a year, make elected officials responsible for appraisal values and cap local government tax collections unless voters approve additional taxes.

Perry also promised to decrease school taxes and get rid of the "Robin Hood" system of school tax distribution, which shifts money from rich districts to poor ones. He offered no specifics on how much taxes would be cut or where he would get money to replace the money lost in the cuts. He said his plan will be "revenue neutral."

"We need more education for our money, not just more money for our education," he told a crowd of hundreds that spilled out of an auditorium at Bayland Community Center in southwest Houston.

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He praised the Legislature for balancing the budget last year with less money than was spent the previous year. He did not mention that the budget included removing hundreds of thousands from the Children's Health Insurance Program and the Medicaid health insurance program for the poor, laying off thousands of state employees, and taking some health benefits from teachers.

[kalian]

1. Sounds good to me....

but then again, there's much riding on the housing bubble that is
about to burst...

[mhr]

2. Perry Is A Republican - Any Proposed Plan Has A Hiden Agenda

He is a snake in the grass.

[kalian]

3. Guess what....

so is Kerry...one big snake in the grass....

Enjoy what's left of our democracy...

[mhr]

5. So Kalian, Are You Not A Democrat?

Your post would suggest that to be the case.

Just curious.

[kalian]

10. Yes I am...

but I'm also not a blind "ABB"...

enjoy...

[RamboLiberal]

4. Getting rid of the "Robin Hood" in school districts

Will guarantee that poor area schools will suffer. Sure is one way to make sure that those kids have no way out of the poverty they're born in to.

I wish in PA we would get a "Robin Hood" system that would guarantee all school districts getting equal money.

[xchrom]

6. it's the solution to offshoring

create more workers without enough education to get more than 6 bucks an hour.
that's the republican way.

[MrTriumph]

7. Hold on , palmer

About Robin Hood: it stinks. As dollars from rich districts go to poor disricts, the property taxpayers of the rich districts have no control over how their money is spent or as may be the case, mis-spent.

Current example: the Ft. Worth Independent School District, a receiver of funds, has been victimized by poor management and fraud in the millions. That's for Ft. Worth taxpayers to resolve at their expense, not mine.

Finally, the Texas constitution guarantees each student an "adequate" eduacation, not an equal one.

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The property tax freeze is an effort slow down big spending local governments. My property taxes have gone up dramaticly in the past 10 years, but my services are not better. Wouldn't you be mad?

[Guaranteed]

8. Isn't that the way state and federal taxes work?

You pay in, but you don't necessarily get back everything you paid in?

Your property taxes have gone up because the feds are spending all their money on defense and skyrocketing health care costs, and have cut education funding.

[Guaranteed]

9. This sounds really dangerous.

They're on their way to having a budget like California's.