GOP comptroller candidate, who once urged “just do it” on property tax abolition, now more cautious
During the recent Republican primary for state comptroller, state Sen. Glenn Hegar repeatedly endorsed eliminating local property taxes in Texas.
Borrowing from GOP opponent Debra Medina’s 2010 playbook, Hegar urged a shift to sales taxes to make up the more than $40 billion a year of revenue that cities, counties, school districts and other local governmental entities would lose.
Hegar, R-Katy, even suggested a very rapid transition to the new tax system. At a Longview tea party gathering in January, he told a man in the audience, “You just do it.”
This week, though, the governing implications of so massive a shift seem to have cooled Hegar’s jets.
More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/03/hegar-who-once-urged-just-do-it-on-property-tax-abolition-now-more-cautious.html/ .
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