Most can't bank on big tax cut

[Judi Lynn]

Oct. 15, 2006, 2:05AM
Most can't bank on big tax cut
Few property owners to see $2,000 savings touted by Perry


By GARY SCHARRER and CLAY ROBISON
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau

AUSTIN — Most property tax notices arriving in mailboxes this month fall far short of delivering the $2,000 tax cut that Gov. Rick Perry pitched in TV and radio spots a few months ago.

Some Texans are getting modest tax cuts, but others are angry because their property taxes actually have increased, despite what the governor and many legislators led them to believe at the conclusion of last spring's school finance session.
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"How can the governor explain the discrepancy? I am totally baffled," said Ramos, an operations manager for a software development company, who normally supports Republicans.

"It certainly sounds like election-year politics to me, and I'm disappointed that the governor would choose to insult the intelligence of the average voter," he said.

The fine print in Perry's TV ads, which aired shortly after the special session ended in the spring, explained that the $2,000 school property tax cut he touted for the "average" homeowner represented a three-year savings. And it was based on values higher than most Texans' homes.
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[xchrom]

2. lol -- perry dug himself a hole.

i am suffering from schadenfreude.:) or however you spell it.

[w4rma]

3. Republicans are con artists. (nt)

[thepurpose]

4. Perry didn't con the property owners did he? Of course he did and there

was plenty of coverage showing that he was conning them. The problem is a lot of that coverage in the MSM here in Texas was couched in the form of a question. In other words is he lying? We the MSM are not sure.

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[leesa]

6. Sorry but "intelligence" and "average Republican voter" do not belong

together. They do this to you every time and yet you do not seem to get it?

[Amonester]

7. It's the "Fool me — you can't get fooled again' heh-heh-heh" part...

in: "Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again" that they never "get" and it's obvious...

Lower than average IQ.