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Kelly Hancock: “Sales tax, which is a large part of the revenue for the…”

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

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enator Kelly Hancock on Inside Texas Politics, WFAA_ COVID-19 and the Texas State Budget

Published | Video Starts at 02:18

Are we going to see an era of expanded government and possibly higher taxes in this state? I think if you look at where we are, absolutely, we're going to see Sales tax, which is a large part of the revenue for the state, [will] be impacted. We recently just got the numbers from the controller for March, which March, the quarantine wasn't in full effect and we saw about nearly a 10% decline in the sales tax revenue in March. (02:18–02:23)

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Asserts that sales tax revenue, a major part of state revenue, will be impacted.

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