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That's the question I guess. We've all seen how Abbott talks when he's manufacturing a crisis out of thin air. In fact, if you listen to his presser on the prop tax bill from last week, you can see both modes, the way he talks when he talks about the property tax emergency and the way he talks when he's talking about the voter list. Big difference. There are also 3 pending lawsuits against TX over this list so that'll figure into his decision.
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TropicalCoke posted:Greg Abbott has declared so far these as emergency matters: It's nice that he called out the white supremacist gang in Dallas rather than going all in on transnational gangs https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1092845438204592130  Anyway those five are the only emergency issues, talked about some other issues but most importantly no voter fraud stuff Only the property tax issue is categorically bad, so it's a win? Nothing on abortion or immigration or The Wall or whatever. Last session sanctuary cities were an emergency issue. Dem response here: https://house.texas.gov/video-audio/ Lol they were fully prepared to go off on Voter Fraud so now they're like, uh we guess that we're disappointed he didn't say the SoS list was bad. He's "passively endorsing a voter roll purge" zoux fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Feb 5, 2019 |
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Badger of Basra posted:High property taxes in Texas are driven by (at least) three factors: How dare you pre-wonk me. "Much harder" doesn't really get at it, if you listen to the cities. DMN had an article yesterday from city officials doing the YOU CAN'T PASS THIS CAP, YOU WILL REGRET THIS basically. They said a cap of 2.5% would've reduced the city budget by $55m compared to today. Basically, it allows state lawmakers, who continue to cut the state share of funding to things like education, to say "we passed property tax relief" while blaming the cities for loving their constituents when they can't deliver on basic services. That makes county and city officials real mad. If you want to see local Republicans yell at state Republicans I think the Senate is having a hearing on the prop. tax bill this week. zoux fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Feb 5, 2019 |
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Oh that bubble exists only between the speaker, gov and lt. gov. It's already DOA in both chambers as far as I'm concerned. They couldn't get agreement between a 4 and 6 percent cap last session plus the special. Now there's more dems in the House and a one-vote margin* in the senate and that one vote already voted against a 4% cap and leadership already torched all the leverage they had over him. I literally have no idea how they get this done. There's a reason the Lege only deals with school finance when they have a court-ordered gun to their heads
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Friend posted:So the state said "you can't have all this money for your schools anymore," so the cities raise the property tax rate to make up for it, but now the state is saying "you can't have our money but you also can't get more money from taxes" Your property tax bill is made up of local school property taxes, set by the ISD, city and county taxes, set by the Council and Commissioner's court, and then probably a few hospital or utility districts. City taxes are usually around 20% of the bill, school property taxes are between 50-60% of that depending on where you live. So all those entities have to raise taxes every year because we have a huge influx of population combined with less available state funds every biennium, to pay for critical services like police, fire, not to mention education. They can only raise them 8% before voters can petition to call a rollback election (7% of registered voters in the jurisdiction have to sign on) to ratify or reject this rate. So mostly entities don't raise taxes more than that, because people are dumbfucks who are unwilling to pay for services. This is already happening, but assuming they set the rollback rate lower, then locals will make up the difference in appraisal growth, overvaluing properties to increase revenue. The proposal they've filed would set the rollback rate at 2.5 % and make the rollback election automatic and on the uniform election date in November, basically ensuring that higher rates won't be ratified. The root of the problem is that property taxes are a horrible tax base because they are horribly regressive, essentially a wealth tax on peoples' largest asset, their homes, and other services are paid for on the back of another regressive tax, sales and use. What we need is a progressive income tax but the constitution requires a ratification for THAT and if people aren't going to vote for property tax rate hikes above 2.5% they sure as poo poo ain't voting to create an income tax. The last time they did this, in 2006 I think, was because there was a 1.5% cap on local school property taxes, and almost every district was at that cap, so somebody sued. The state constitution prohibits a statewide property tax, and since everyone was effectively paying the same rate, the plaintiffs argued that it was a de facto statewide tax, and they won. So the lege's solution was to spend a bunch of money to buy down property taxes by a third, essentially sending money to districts to hold them harmless for the cut, and then replace that revenue with the franchise/margins tax. Well, the franchise tax brought in way less than expected, and every district was back up to the cap within a couple of years (i'm not exactly sure why this isn't unconstitutional, I think there's a local enrichment tier of a few cents that you can go above the cap if you get the voters approval, which I guess is enough discretion?). I think the average savings on people's tax bills was like $200. Today, we're back in the same situation, except we don't have a court order, and now they are also trying to phase out the franchise tax without a new revenue stream. All revenue problems are supposed to be offset by "economic growth" of course. My opinion, which isn't worth a lot because I'm just some rando, is that there isn't really a good solution to school finance in Texas because we're competing between two mutually exclusive constitutional requirements: one that the state provide an "equitable and adequate" education to every student and the prohibition against a statewide property tax. Robin Hood was supposed to fix this when they passed it in '93, but now like 60 districts are in recapture and richer cities (Austin ISD sends the most money to the state under recapture, incidentally) are salty about remitting millions in local tax revenue they could use to provide expensive educations to their consituents to the state for redistribution to poor districts. zoux fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Feb 5, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/madlinbmek/status/1092979014103457792 https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1093155580334747648 e: THIS poo poo again https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1093175150734987264 zoux fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Feb 6, 2019 |
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Aggies aren't taking Abbott's SotS proposal to bring back the UT/A&M game https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3019182 
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Also if you want to read an article in the Breitbart/Gateway Pundit voice but about recruiting class rankings https://gigemgazette.com/2019/02/04/recruiting-bias-texas-ridiculous/ Do other states have equivalents to Aggie jokes
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 Starting to think communism might not win quote:The demands read: “1. that you make a public acknowledgment and apology for the fact that you [Enoch] worked with a federal informant, 2. we also demand that you have members of PSL leave this protest, 3. we also demand that you put away all WWP propaganda or it will be taken from you.”
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You mean t-sip? They just think that's a good own it's supposed to mean while they were off fighting wars UT people were sitting at home sipping tea. They also only ever call it t.u. instead of UT. These are not bright people. Here's a whole loving wikipedia page about A&M slang, all of which I know because the mall sold T-shirts with all this poo poo on it.
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1093382796305936385 Lol way to go collective numbnuts. Hmm is this El Chapo or basically-a-Republican Congressman  To be fair that could be loving Bigfoot and you couldn't tell. Speaking of morons https://twitter.com/KHOU/status/1093363785912537088 zoux fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Reminder that David Whitley, the bumbling nominee for Texas Secretary of State, is in front of Senate Nominations today which is 4-3 R/D split oh and one of the R's is Seliger. Also he needs 2/3s in the Senate anyway to get approved so the man is doomed. Kirk Watson is on this committee and I remember watching him meticulously take apart young-earth creationist and national embarrassment Don McElroy during his confirmation hearing for chair of the SBOE years and years ago (he did not get confirmed). Should be fun.
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Badger of Basra posted:Is the 2/3 requirement in the constitution, or is it a rule the Senate could change like the threshold for bringing up bills? Article 4 section 12 baybee
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Badger of Basra posted:What time is Whitley’s hearing? It was at 9, it's over now. zoux fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Not particularly. Dude was extremely cautious. Seliger seems skeptical so he may not get out of committee.
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Does it help cops? Yes. Thus...
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Lightning Knight posted:I’m going to the San Antonio DSA meeting tonight. If any of y’all are also going, feel free to PM me or whatever. TROT
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Comrayn posted:My wife had the local news on while getting ready this morning and they mentioned the latest development in this (one of the cops "relieved of duty" aka on paid leave). What pissed me off is how they referred to it as "the deadly shooting incident in which five HPD officers were injured" because the injured cops are the tragedy here. No need to mention they got injured after they busted into an innocent man's house unannounced and blew away his dog, killing him and his wife for their trouble. Excuse me sir, there was weed in the house.
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1093974027524325383 That's gonna be a big ole jackoff session, though I don't know if Abbott has the kind of paraplegia where your dick don't work (hopefully he does)
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TropicalCoke posted:One of sen whitmires interns is on the potential non citizens list from the SoS. Whitley is done lmao. Fall on the sword for daddy abbott Oh he might not even get out of committee. Seliger and Kolkhorst were both pretty cool on him. Also, the Gov's office has reason to be mad at him for loving this whole scheme up.
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https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1094962479535403010 This is carefully parsed
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Y'all remember how we were talking the other day about how It Didn't Used To Be Like THis https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1093055382019325953 https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1095001144605241346
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https://twitter.com/JohnnieMo/status/1095005890497806336 "Finch the Mall" Also lol at all these Austin based reporters having to schlepp it out to El Paso because President Tweets decided he was mad that people said he was wrong about crime in the city being fixed by a wall
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I just said why they picked El Paso, it's one of the safest cities in the US despite being across the river from one of the least safe cities in North America, and in his SotU Trump said it was because of walls. Everyone who knows what they are talking about, left and right, said "no that's not why" so he got all salted up and decided he was going campaign-rally his way to this being true. And he's going to get protested to gently caress because that's a city that went like 65% for HRC in 16.
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Look, morality of it aside, we know how to interdict border crossings. The degree to which we do it is a matter of policy but as far as the mechanisms of stopping crossings, we know what works and what doesn't. Cornyn knows what works and what doesn't, he knows the wall is ineffective in that regard. But you can't say that because President Baby has the support of 85% of the GOP and he'll start calling him Jerpin' John or something and own him right out of office. You'd have to have political courage to do it and well
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https://twitter.com/JeremySWallace/status/1095044808593281024 Trump's venue has a cap of 7k people, Beto's rally will be open air and it's supposed to be real nice out there tonight. 3 or 4 times bigger than the Trump rally isn't out of the question (also what if Beto announces for prez tonight >_> )
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*extremely Faith No More voice* https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1095065077655449601 lmao https://twitter.com/steveholland1/status/1095066783390801929 https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1095062394689257473 zoux fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Feb 11, 2019 |
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Also those numbers would change drastically if an actual Beto-Cornyn race got kicked off. You'd see better approval rates for Cornyn in that case, imo.
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/brandonformby/status/1095085638964133890?s=21 Honestly this makes it harder to pass imo because now those small entities who might have been sitting out this round are back in the mix. The carve out was specifically intended to blunt rural pushback, but that’s back on the table now. E: the opt in provision I mean, you’re correct about the first responder carve out Also Badge you’ll be happy to know someone filed a bill to replace all references to marihuana in the code with cannabis
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Probably because the GOP electorate in those counties were mad they weren’t getting fake tax relief
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https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1095170666612035587 Here's ol Dan saying a bunch of stuff he knows to be untrue. Also AP is reporting that all 55 miles of "bollard barrier" in the border sec. deal is in the RGV.
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https://twitter.com/toddgillman/status/1095373330062938117 lol. El Paso County officials estimated 7-10k but it coulda been a million and he'd still have said no one showed up. https://twitter.com/zachdespart/status/1095391463775588353 oof zoux fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Feb 12, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/1095423453782597636 Friends, I'm fer it.
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Here look: https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/BillNumber.aspx Look up any bill SB 476  No need to guess at what a bill does. "May" means permissive, it's up to the discretion of the restaurant owner. Shall and may, key words to look for in any bill. Also if you want to be engaged politically you have to teach yourself how to read legislation. This one is pretty straight forward. I dunno how it is at the city level or in other states, but underlined words are additions to the code, non-underlined words are already there, and struck-out words are, well, guess. zoux fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Feb 12, 2019 |
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Lightning Knight posted:That’s fine then. This ain’t it chief You got time to attend DSA meetings of 20 people you got time to stay informed about legislation zoux fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Feb 13, 2019 |
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Lege council also develops bill analyses for every bill referred to committee. They take a couple of days to show up but they are more of a plain language summary of the bill text
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Badger of Basra posted:Doesn't TLC also write the actual bills? Like Rep. Dumbshit from Exurbia, TX calls them up and says "I want a bill that bans gay orgies in public schools" and they find the relevant part of the law where that would be put in and write a bill that references appropriate sections etc. Yeah. They work a little closer with staff and members than that but they employ like a million lawyers. Badger of Basra posted:I wonder if you could get the actual text of the request they received. Would those be public records? Dunno Also re: Wendy Davis https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/930173084199464960 God I hope this movie never gets made TropicalCoke posted:Is it every bill? I thought it was bills that get out of committee and back onto the floor. But I'm new to this process. Seriously. The people who actually draft the bills for legislative teams are the only people in the Capitol that do work outside the custodians and handymen. I dunno if it's every bill that gets referred but they definitely have BAs ready to go in committee. SB 10 passed out of Senate HHS today and I just looked and it's got one.
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