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Sardonik posted:Same here, introducing a friend to it the 10PM show tonight. I was at the 10pm also. I was really hoping the drinking game tonight would not be covfefe, but there was no stopping the mob. I did a Christmas show, and our drinking game was gently caress trump as well. The main guy John really hates Trump to the point where I think the election devastated him. I'm fine with the anti Trump jokes and enjoy it being a two hour trump mock - but I know some people don't. gently caress those guys though.
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ReidRansom posted:https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/871887121354817537 Thank god the Lege knows what's really important (property tax reduction).
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Abbott is having a press conference at 2:30 that everyone assumes is the special session announcement. He was agitating about property taxes yesterday, but not the bathroom bill, so the supposition is that he's going to add property taxes to the call. Dunno how that's going to work, you can't actually reduce/reform property taxes without tackling school finance, and the Senate isn't going to go along with a new finance plan that doesn't include vouchers, and the House had 2 votes last session where more than 2/3s of the body rejected any public money going to private schools. Also, the Senate's property tax proposal, cutting the rollback rate and making rollback elections automatic, has no support in the House. The problem with the property tax bills (and the bathroom bill) wasn't that they ran out of time, it's that the House and Senate have fundamentally unresolvable differences on the issues. All the Perry specials came about because Senate Democrats were able to leverage the 2/3s rule to block GOP priority bills like abortion poo poo and voter ID. With that gone, the R's can get anything through the Legislature they want. There is no Republican consensus on property tax reform or the bathroom bill, and 30 days, or 60 or 90, aren't going to change that.
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What's some good reading material on the screwed up school finance system in Texas?
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There's not much to it: we pay for schools with local property taxes and state funding from the Permanent School Fund. But the legislature has chronically underfunded their share of public education, meaning more and more of the cost gets put on the local tax base. There's Robin Hood, ASATR, the 2006 tax compression and the finance formula is byzantine for sure, but the core problem is that the state isn't paying its fair share. Same thing with higher ed, which is why tuition is skyrocketing. Here's the TEA site with like 15 one-pagers on all the different weights and allotments that determine how much a school gets per student. zoux fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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Badger of Basra posted:Also the property tax system is hosed up. This. I have an ex-GIRLFRIEND who was a property tax consultant in Houston. Companies get tons of reductions if they just show up and dispute property taxes.
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Badger of Basra posted:Also the property tax system is hosed up. Yeah but that's because of school finance. https://twitter.com/amanbatheja/status/872105619511271425 Also yes, that's us and 15 other states filing an amicus brief in favor of the travel ban to SCOTUS because we WILL be on the wrong side of history goddamn it. zoux fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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zoux posted:There's not much to it: we pay for schools with local property taxes and state funding from the Permanent School Fund. But the legislature has chronically underfunded their share of public education, meaning more and more of the cost gets put on the local tax base. There's Robin Hood, ASATR, the 2006 tax compression and the finance formula is byzantine for sure, but the core problem is that the state isn't paying its fair share. Same thing with higher ed, which is why tuition is skyrocketing. What's the bigger cause of the underfunding, the state not keeping pace with growing costs or a reduction in funding? How can the state raise the funds if they chose to unfuck everything (tax increases, budget reallocation, policy changes?).
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:What's the bigger cause of the underfunding, the state not keeping pace with growing costs or a reduction in funding? How can the state raise the funds if they chose to unfuck everything (tax increases, budget reallocation, policy changes?). The former. The easy fix is a graduated income or property (or wealth! lol) taxes, and a statewide or preferably nationwide educational funding system. Local control is about segregation. iirc the system was cut after the 2008 crash and funding has gone up more slowly than necessary every year since.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:What's the bigger cause of the underfunding, the state not keeping pace with growing costs or a reduction in funding? How can the state raise the funds if they chose to unfuck everything (tax increases, budget reallocation, policy changes?). This year they put in, I think, like $2.5 bn into the FSP to cover enrollment growth, which is like less than half of what they need. Also, Texas will never, ever have a state income tax because of the Bullock amendment in the state constitution, which requires that two-thirds of Texas voters approve it.
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zoux posted:This year they put in, I think, like $2.5 bn into the FSP to cover enrollment growth, which is like less than half of what they need. Yeah, I knew that much about state income tax so I'm not even going to bother with that type of solution. Who wants progressive taxation anyway, all tax is theft! What other actually likely to happen funding solutions are there? Seems that everyone I know that owns a house disputes their property taxes to lower them, despite their property values skyrocketing since they became owners.
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Is that income only? Could they pass an asset tax with a simple majority?
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Remember that the state and literally every local entirety trips over themselves to hand out property tax abatement to businesses, further reducing the tax base.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:likely to happen funding solutions None. It's more likely that we'd increase the sales tax than anything, and even that is a loooooong shot. We passed a franchise tax in 2006 to cover the revenue loss from the prop tax cut and now it's like everyone's #1 priority to get rid of it. With no new revenue to cover it. Remember the Republicans here, and everywhere, think we already have way more money than we need, it's just bad teachers/welfare queens/federal regulations that are making us not have enough. Aliquid posted:Is that income only? Could they pass an asset tax with a simple majority? Depends on what the courts say
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zoux posted:Also yes, that's us and 15 other states filing an amicus brief in favor of the travel ban to SCOTUS because we WILL be on the wrong side of history goddamn it. Chinese historians probably won't have the same view as the illiterate warlords ruling over North America.
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Much like most of American politics in the last six months, yes. e:https://twitter.com/TexasGOP/status/872133206954389505 lol the GOP is so loving backwards. zoux fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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zoux posted:Much like most of American politics in the last six months, yes. quote:freedom of speech* hahaha
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19 items ughhhhh E: he wants the Senate version of property taxes and the House version of the bathroom bill. Also a panoply of city-loving bullshit, abortion crap and budget restrictions The public union busting bill is back too. And special ed vouchers. Just a smorgasbord of red meat GOP primary voter bullshit. What a disaster. zoux fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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Lived here 10 years, but only recently started caring about local politics. Can someone point to me to something that explains special sessions? What happens when nothing gets done in these sessions?
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skipdogg posted:Lived here 10 years, but only recently started caring about local politics. The governor can call a 30-day session whenever he wants and he sets the agenda. He can modify that agenda at will. Only what he puts on the agenda is eligible. After 30 days, he can call another one. And another one. And another one. But it sounds like he won't, they're gonna get this one shot and then that's it.
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Badger of Basra posted:So which of the 19 things are actually going to be addressed, because there's no way they can hit all of them Bathroom bill is a lock, property taxes is dicey because rural House members won't back the auto rollback provisions, teacher pay is possible, all of the city-loving laws are possible, maternal mortality is probable. It's basically going to come down to the order they come up in, the later they go the less of a chance. Also, since Abbott said he won't open the call until Sunset passes (thereby precluding Patrick holding it to force Abbott to put his specific crap on the call) expect Dems to drag that out to a week or so. Anyway, thanks to the NYT for their "Abbott is a lil bitch" article yesterday that led to this stunt. E: good news from that presser is that he signed the texting while driving ban, which I'm a fan of. zoux fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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I'm slightly surprised redistricting didn't make the cut. There was talk of calls for that from US House members.
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ReidRansom posted:I'm slightly surprised redistricting didn't make the cut. There was talk of calls for that from US House members. Not without a court holding a gun to their heads. I agree, as usual, with Hooks here. https://mobile.twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/872181931638755328
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zoux posted:Not without a court holding a gun to their heads. I think he means the talk about them wanting to gerrymander again before the court makes them unfuck it.
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Badger of Basra posted:I think he means the talk about them wanting to gerrymander again before the court makes them unfuck it. Well the court that's gonna make em un gently caress it will be deliberating the case during the special, so a bad faith last ditch on purpose gerrymander probably wouldn't endear them to the court. Also I think the intent is to have new maps by the midterms.
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Lol https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/872440791326740480 The last Dem rep that did this lost her seat, but she was from El Paso and got primaried (and hit somebody). Naeve beat a GOP incumbent to take the seat in 2016, so it wasn't guaranteed she'd win the district again in 18, but now that's a lot harder. e: oh lol I forgot the House Dem caucus named her freshman of the year. She also did that ridiculous hunger strike against SB 4 zoux fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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zoux posted:Lol From the Dallas Morning News: quote:An officer wrote that she was "uncooperative" and "staggering" as she refused to complete a field sobriety test. Sucks but hopefully we can replace her with a another dem.
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RisqueBarber posted:Sucks but hopefully we can replace her with a another dem. It's been a pretty tight district in the past, I do think that we're going to have an energized Dem voter base compared to an apathetic GOP one, but never bet against Republicans in Texas. I think one reason (besides being Steve Hotze's catspaw) that Patrick is going so HAM on bathrooms this session is because he's worried about a very different political landscape in 2018. A lot of it is going to depend on if SB 4 turns out the endlessly vaunted but yet to materialize sleeping giant Dem Hispanic bloc vote. But that group has supposed to have appeared and banished the GOP to the wilderness for about five sessions now, so don't hold your breath. Also lol  Oh poo poo I'm in favor of SB 4 now https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/872464397737877504 zoux fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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