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Kelly Hancock: “State spending at the state level has maintained an…”

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

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Senator Kelly Hancock on Inside Texas Politics, WFAA What to expect in the 2019 legislative session

Published | Video Starts at 03:41

And so, you know, what's happened is we balanced that out several years ago and in the State's portion was 50%. What's happened is local property appraisals have grown at nearly twice the rate of inflation, while government State spending at the state level has maintained an inflation and population level. So you're having local property tax growth at twice the rate of the state spending, which gets you from a 50, 50 position, which we were in back when I … (03:41–03:58)

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Asserts that state government spending has been kept in line with inflation and population growth.

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