But Texas tries to buy down those property taxes, injecting an infusion of billions of dollars. What happened after we infused $18 billion into property tax cuts last session is Local jurisdictions like Harris county and many others, they went behind their backs and they increased property taxes, sometimes by much as 10%. And so one of our top shelf goals this session has to be to eliminate the ability of local tax in jurisdictions to increase your property taxes. (03:54–04:03)
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Asserts that local jurisdictions increased property taxes by up to 10% despite state efforts to cut them.
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