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Vikki Goodwin: “We've given sales tax abatements and property tax abatements…”

Featuring: Vikki Goodwin, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 47

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Democratic Candidate for Texas Lt. Governor Vikki Goodwin on data centers, Big Bend construction

Published | Video Starts at 01:06

… the fact that we have given huge subsidies or tax incentives to these companies that really are going to come to Texas regardless of whether they get those tax abatements. We've given sales tax abatements and property tax abatements to these data centers. And to your point, I mean this was done at least the sales tax incentives was passed I believe in the 2013 session. (01:06–01:12)

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Asserts that Texas has provided sales and property tax abatements to data centers.

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