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Texas amendment results rundown (communityimpact.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Good list of everything that passed and by how much.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

So we don't want higher property taxes and we don't want a wealth tax.

So how do people propose we fund schools and other infrastructure? I'm not trying to be facetious, I'm genuinely curious.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They don't think, and 82% of people don't vote. And if they do vote, they're going to the polls without any prior knowledge on what they're voting on. They enter the poll booth to read the proposal description for the first time and decide on the spot. Very few of us are reading guides and researching to read through the bullshit description to make sensible votes. Its a fucking joke and its by design for those in power.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Republicans pinky-promised they would find the funding somewhere. That's apparently good enough for a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Property taxes are based on home values which have doubled over the last ten years, this is just relief from that. People are being priced out of their homes right now. If there was a state income tax instead revenue would have fallen due to wages not keeping up with inflation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

revenue would have fallen due to wages not keeping up with inflation.

So you're saying that if we had an income tax, it would be in the government's interest to promote higher wages? That sounds like the opposite of a problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Promote higher wages for the middle class, yes. The bottom half pay nothing anyway. You’d have to hugely increase minimum wage to make a tax difference.