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Greg Abbott: “We eliminated indoctrinating our kids in the classroom.”

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Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple

Published November 14, 2025 | Video Starts at 09:41

Texas must become number one in America in educating our children. School choice did that. The funding increase did that. The teacher pay raise did that. As well as curriculum reform. We eliminated indoctrinating our kids in the classroom. We banned DEI in all of our public schools across the state of Texas. And I signed a law saying no boys and girls sports in the state of Texas. (09:41–09:46)

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“More than 95% of all businesses in Texas are small businesses.”
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“The state of Texas does not impose a property tax.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 04:19-04:24
“I signed the largest school funding award ever in the history of our state, more than $8 billion for our schools.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 08:43-08:50
“The largest teacher pay raise ever, more than $4 billion to increase teacher pay.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 08:50-08:56
“We banned DEI in all of our public schools across the state of Texas.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 09:51-09:56
“We passed a lot of laws this session that cut through all the red tape [for small businesses].”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 01:15-01:19
“We passed [a law] increasing [the property tax exemption for small businesses] to $125,000.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 01:15-02:06
“Every year that I've been governor, we have passed laws to reduce your property taxes in Texas.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 02:53-03:00
“Your property tax exemption now goes up to $140,000. If you're a senior, it goes up to $200,000.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 03:43-03:55
“There are some property taxing authorities that run deficits and they issue property tax increases to pay off those deficits.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 05:26-05:34
“There should only be a property tax increase if it is voted on by the public and gets 2/3 of the public voting in favor of it.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 06:04-06:13
“If you get 15% of the residents in your area to petition for a rate rollback that will be on the ballot.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 06:28-06:37
“Your appraisal should occur only once every five years.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 07:15-07:19
“They are allowed to increase your appraisal by up to 10% a year.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 07:26-07:32
“I say we lower that 10% to no more than 3% a year.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 07:36-07:41
“The largest part of that [property tax bill], maybe two thirds of it, is going to be your local school district property tax bill.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 07:51-07:59
“You deserve a vote on another constitutional amendment, and that is to pay zero on your school district property taxes.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 08:10-08:18
“The state of Texas is going to be the ones responsible for fully funding our schools.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 08:36-08:41
“I signed a law saying no boys in girls sports in the state of Texas.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 10:01-10:07
“I'm making a promise, a commitment, and I'm going to put my name on it in front of you all right now to work on getting these five plans…”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 15:16-15:27
“Everyone needs to say support Abbott's five point plan to slash property taxes in Texas.”
Governor Abbott: Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Event in Temple | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 16:37-16:45