Reply #7: Our modest property taxes are more than offset by our high income, sales, and corporate taxes

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I understand that Texas has high sales taxes and that some areas have very high property taxes, but the overall tax burden for a working middle-class Texan is a lot lower than it is for us out here.

Just to be clear, the 2/3 vote requirement is one of the provisions of Proposition 13. Prop. 13 was a genuine voter revolt motivated by a state legislature and counties that showed insufficient restraint in raising peoples' taxes. Until that root problem is fixed, there is no way that Prop. 13 is going away.