Democratic Comptroller Candidate Mike Collier Calls Glenn Hegar's Tax Proposals "Wrong and Dumb"
Earlier this week the Democratic Candidate For Comptroller Mike Collier started a petition from his website asking people to stand against a "massive new sales tax" for Texas consumers.
Citing a video of Hegar explaining that he "never liked the property tax," Hegar introduced an alternative tax to replace all property tax in the state of Texas, a "consumption based tax" or in other words a sales tax.
Texas currently has one of the higher sales tax rates in the nation, at 8.25 percent, but eliminating property taxes in Texas would mean that sales taxes would have to at least double if not triple, making Texas have the highest sales tax in the country, and ultimately hurting Texas consumers, Texas businesses, and Texas families
Collier commented on this new proposal of Hegar's and said, "That's not just wrong; it's dumb."
More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14985/democratic-comptroller-candidate-mike-collier-calls-glenn-hegars-tax-proposals-wrong-and-dumb .
[font color=green]The article also points out that if Texas abandons the property tax and relies solely on the sales tax, then a new administrative bureaucracy would be necessary to distribute revenue and the tax entities would no longer be subject to local control. Those entities include municipalities, counties, school districts, hospital districts, and other political subdivisions.[/font]
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