Reply #45: SMART restrictions

[pop goes the weasel]

I want to know what you have in mind. Everything I have seen come up for debate in Texas in the past year has been pre-skewed for bidness convenience. How are you going to get around that? I simply don't believe that there is even a possibility of restructuring the tax system so that large corporations pay their share. And even if there was a magic pill we could slip into the legislature's coffee so that they would forsake business lobbyists, there are still plenty of taxing districts that don't have big corporations, and have high taxes on small holders because of the general poverty.

I didn't say anything about people with a lot of land not being able to pay their taxes on it, though that sometimes happens with agricultural lands. It's the small holders who get screwed. I don't think you and I basically disagree on the problem. I'm waiting to hear your solution. Right now, the system is burdensomely regressive. Democrats have got to start talking about real tax reform at the state level.