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 Criminalizing the unsolicited dick pic. Seems like a loophole where you can send limp dick pics tho.
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zoux posted:
this makes it unlawful for discrimination against growers
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Is this gonna get struck down due to 1st amendment?
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Wasn't expecting that to be filed by a white republican male from Dallas. Seems ... weird, but maybe okay? I'd kind of lean on "this is something it seems a bit weird to legislate" but I'm not the target of that sort of thing so ...
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https://twitter.com/edwonkkimmy/status/1102648979588870146 Uh is there another relevant thing known as TRE because the only one I know about is tax ratification elections e: lol 
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No Safe Word posted:Wasn't expecting that to be filed by a white republican male from Dallas. I'm gonna guess that a bunch of legislators have daughters that all have horror stories of unsolicited dick pics.
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zoux posted:e: lol stephen root noooooooooooo
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 https://siteselection.com/issues/2019/mar/the-2018-governors-cups-making-it-look-easy-cover.cfm
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https://twitter.com/Forrest4Trees/status/1102666198691577857 Good lord
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i'd like to see a list of most obscure college towns like stephenville and commerce
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reppin' Bridgewater MA 4 lyfe
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i'd like to see a list of most obscure college towns like stephenville and commerce Nacogdoches
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Y'all got trolled by that troll map pretty easy. Shameful
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i'd like to see a list of most obscure college towns like stephenville and commerce Kerrville
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Alpine
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Lolquote:According to the summary, the bill would increase the base funding per student by $890 to $6,030 — the first time that allotment has been raised in four years. It would also lower school district property tax rates statewide by 4 cents per $100 of taxable property value, helping to reduce so-called Robin Hood payments that redistribute money from wealthier districts to poorer ones. The compression could save the owner of a home with $250,000 in taxable value about $100 annually in school district taxes. 
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TropicalCoke posted:Alpine Alpine is pretty neat.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1102756671783358466 BLUE TEXAS! BLUE TEXAS! i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corncob
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My god the property tax relief!!!
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1102756671783358466 not enough flags
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Taxes here have about doubled in just a few years. Can we just throw the rich people in the loving woodchipper until money starts coming out instead of loving with normal people that would be dope.
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Badger of Basra posted:My god the property tax relief!!! I guess we'll find out tomorrow but that amount of relief is probably gonna cost like a billion dollars lol
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Badger of Basra posted:My god the property tax relief!!! $100 on a $6000 bill for a $250k house. Glad we can pass another handout for the wealthy at the expense of our children.
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would a state capital gains tax or wealth tax get around the income tax ban? ...or does that need a simple majority to be repealed anyway?
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We could either amend the constitution to repeal the Bullock rule OR pass an income tax with a simple majority of voters. My opinion is that both of those taxes would be prohibited by the constitution, but if we're at the point where the Legislature is passing one of those we're so far from where we are now that Texas would be heavily Democratic anyway.
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Sab0921 posted:$100 on a $6000 bill for a $250k house. Can someone explain to me school funding for Texas being a new resident? I noticed the high school up the street is.. um pretty well funded to the point of absurdity. Or any links? When I went to band in school in Canada.. we had pretty jank equipment and we [my parents] were responsible for transporting us to events and such. The school up the street got a semi truck with a 53 foot drop frame air ride electronics van complete with custom vinyl wrap around graphics to tote around the bands equipment. That's a pretty expensive combination. Does that come out of the general education fund? If so.. yikes.. or does it get sourced through fundraisers and donations? My big issue with education funding is peoples little pet projects getting out of control and you end up spending money on "stupid poo poo" vs having proper books and supplies in a classroom.
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1% of local taxable property value goes towards schools. The amount of money a school is entitled to is a factor of its student population, weighted for different student needs, multiplied by a variable that is meant to account for regional differences in student populations and need. Consider that entitlement as a bucket. First, they pour in local property tax revenue. If it's below the entitlement, then the state makes up the difference with general revenue. If it's above that entitlement, then the extra money goes back to the state for redistribution to the poorer districts. (this is recapture, or Robin Hood) Then you have the local enrichment tier, which is where you see the disparities kick in. Local BoEs are permitted to hike taxes $.04 by fiat, and can go all the way up to $.17 with voter approval. The first six cents are called "golden pennies" because they aren't subject to recapture. So however much those six pennies make stays in the district. There's also a guaranteed yield, pegged to AISD yield. So if your local district earns $50 per penny per student, and AISD earns $100 per penny per student, then the state makes up the difference to get you to $100. The remaining 12 cents are called "copper pennies" because they are subject to recapture. https://www.equitycenter.org/ is an excellent resource for school finance stuff. And a powerpoint from CPPP that goes into greater detail. Incidentally the House school finance plan, according to "leaked" details, would delink the guaranteed yield from AISD because Austin has the fastest property value growth in the state and the guaranteed yield for 2021 is like $130 bucks, when in FY '15 it was $61. They also want to bump the basic allotment, which is the primary formula variable, up by $890 to just over 6k. zoux fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Mar 5, 2019 |
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It's election day! HD 145 runoff to replace Carol Alvardo who won the SD6 seat to replace Sylvia Garcia who won a congressional seat because Gene Green retired and she's obscenely selfish and refused to resign to allow a November election for her seat.
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Sab0921 posted:she's obscenely selfish and refused to resign to allow a November election for her seat. Well, no.
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zoux posted:Well, no. She sent a letter saying she intends to resign in November which opened the door to Greg Abbot fuckery. If she just resigned, no gimmicks or word play - this wouldn't have happened. She was afraid of losing the congressional election like she lost the 2010 county commissioner's election and then being left without a seat (the horror of not being an elected official)
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She submitted basically the same letter Leticia Van de Putte did, and LVP's election was in November.  Don't think she was terribly worried about losing HD 29. Anyway I hope that Garcia's avarice doesn't cost the democrats this seat  ---------------------- E: how much is that $100 in meaningful tax savings gonna cost? $2.7 billion. https://twitter.com/rebekahallen/status/1102972925865615367 Here's a fancy-rear end multi media website about it https://www.thetexasplan.com/ zoux fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Mar 5, 2019 |
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Yeah, I don't need a property tax break. My overall tax liability here in TX is a joke as it is compared to other states. How about we just get the schools more money and they can keep my 120 bucks or whatever.
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Big K of Justice posted:Can someone explain to me school funding for Texas being a new resident? I noticed the high school up the street is.. um pretty well funded to the point of absurdity. Or any links? Your example is most likely from Band boosters. So no not from a general fund and yes from fundraising by the band and generous donors
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DangerZoneDelux posted:Your example is most likely from Band boosters. So no not from a general fund and yes from fundraising by the band and generous donors Are these rich dudes shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy touring buses or what? What does a band booster do
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Raise money and fill seats at events, short answer.
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zoux posted:Are these rich dudes shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy touring buses or what? What does a band booster do yes.
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Texas schools (prolly American schools in general but I only know Texas) place a greater value and prestige on the school's extracurricular programs than its academics so yeah, if your school's families have the money to throw around then whoooo boy. When he graduates, little Johnny will think the Civil War was about states' rights but he'll have had the shiniest trumpet for all four years of band.
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I get it for football but....band? https://twitter.com/Forrest4Trees/status/1103141156970512392 Yeah it's a blood bath in the states that have legalized recreational use. Real Mad Max poo poo.
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zoux posted:She submitted basically the same letter Leticia Van de Putte did, and LVP's election was in November. I disagree - she submitted the same letter, but it was vague and left room for interpretation which is exactly what Abbott did when he refused to hold the election based on her letter. The reason she didn't want to resign outright (who cares if the seat is vacant from July-Nov in a non-session year) was because she did not want to be without a seat if she lost (however unlikely that may have been). She was in a safe County Commissioner's seat in 2010 and ended up losing because of the Tea Party wave and her lack of trying - it has colored her experience so she wanted to make sure she still had a seat in case the improbable happened. The Democrats will hold the seat, but neither Noriega or Morales was particularly impressive - maybe we have better candidates if the HD 145 is held in November (I'm assuming in this scenario that Alvarado gives up her seat to run for SD6, also in November).
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