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Listener: Pratt on Texas
Category: General
Date: 17 Jan 2010
Time: 19:01:18 -0700
Remote Name: 70.242.183.106
This past week Speaker of the Texas House Joe Straus created four select committees to deal with fiscal policy and tax issues. Empower Texans reports that “Both the Government Efficiency and Fiscal Stability committee memberships scored on average… the exact… [as] House as a whole during the session according to [the Empower Texans] index.”
The Speaker did not weight the committees toward small-government conservatives, as would have been much better for taxpayers, but he didn’t weight them to much toward the Left either. That’s at least laudable given that Speaker Straus and his supporters are not conservatives.
It’s the Speaker’s interim committee charges that are of greatest concern to me. When politicians start talking about removing "tax exemptions" they are playing the Liberal-language game.
There are really no "exemptions" from the sales, or other, tax. There are simply items and activities which are not yet taxed. Straus and crew, when talking about review of the "usefulness" of tax exemptions, are talking about expanding the taxation of activities in Texas - activities for which the average taxpayer will foot the bill.
We must get this language straight now or, we'll suffer a big round of tax increase under the popular guise removing “exemptions.” Voters must send true conservatives to Austin or they’ll pay the price – directly from their pocketbooks.
Robert Pratt
Pratt on Texas
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