A disagreement between key House tax-policy writers went public today, foreshadowing partisan rhetoric we're going to hear next session about Texas' budget crisis: The Republicans will say the state spends too much, and has a hard time hitting the brakes when times are flush. The Democrats will say the state doesn't raise enough revenue to have healthy kids and an educated workforce, especially after the 2006 tax swap.
In a kerfuffle involving two House members who really like to engage in detailed discussions of Texas' tax system, Rep. Mike Villarreal, D-San Antonio (right), sent reporters a letter in which he told Rep. John Otto, R-Dayton, that he couldn't sign a special money panel's interim report because it perpetrates "denial of the state's structural revenue shortfall." Some people like to call that the structural deficit, and point to how Texas four years ago gave away more local school property tax cuts -- financed with state money -- than it raised in higher state taxes on businesses, smokers and used car sellers.
Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/11/let-the-texas-budget-wars-comm.html
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