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Greg Abbott: “One of our top shelf goals this session has to be to…”

Featuring: Greg Abbott, Republican | Governor of Texas

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Gov. Greg Abbott on State of the State, School Choice, Property Taxes, Border Security.

Published | Video Starts at 04:03

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. And that item you're talking about is a two thirds vote requirement by the voters. Correct. (04:03–04:14)

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Asserts a goal to prevent local jurisdictions from increasing property taxes.

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