Sumlins Pool Guy said:
Change homestead exemption to a percentage and make it fixed for whole time of ownership. Should know what you're paying every year as long as you don't move.
Need to drastically change the Ag exemption. Millions of acres in Texas are taxed like they're family farms when in reality they're recreational properties that let the neighbors run cows on them.
Will increase rural communities revenue and we can end Robin Hood.
Bottom line is Perry - Abbot have done zero to reduce the scope of the state government and budget over the last 20 years. The Texas GOP has basically no opposition and has failed to make this a low tax state
You think seeing pastures and farm fields being turned into subdivisions is bad now? Implement this and it will be what it is currently on steroids as landowners do everything possible to dump their land. Which corporations and developers will gladly buy.
Tax abatements need to go away, across the board, for every entity. I despise them.
Also, change how the government budgeting process works. Incentivize saving money instead of penalizing a department for being fiscally responsible. Government should only own the land it actually uses, not land it sits on for 20 or 30 years doing nothing with simply because they don't want somebody else owning it.
Change how the language for bonds, tax increases, etc. is presented. The slight of hand used by every single entity is criminal IMO. It should be plain english that even a 3rd grader can understand easily and quickly versus the word salad crap most ballot proposals are.
Quit taxing me on something I have already bought year in and year out under the threat of confiscating my property. Your house is the only thing you buy that you pay sales tax on yearly and you don't know what your sales tax will be from one year to the next. Our entire tax system needs to be burned to the ground, its ashes pissed and crapped on, then thrown in a bottomless pit for all of eternity.
