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Kelly Hancock: “Sales tax 5% a month, you know, over year, over year.”

Featuring: Kelly Hancock, Republican | State Senator, Texas, District 9

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Inside Texas Politics: Full interview with acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock

Published | Video Starts at 22:45

If you look at our, we produce this data and really try to be very transparent and open everything in our office and we're showing that basically we're still growing. Sales tax 5% a month, you know, over year, over year. And the states continue to grow in population. The state's GDP continue to grow. We're the, as a state, eighth largest economy in the world, 2.7 trillion dollar GDP. (22:45–22:50)

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Asserts that sales tax in Texas is growing 5% month over year.

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