Huffines wants to win the GOP nomination to be Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Basically the state’s bookkeeper.Texans shouldn’t have to pay perpetual rent to the government to live in a home they already own.
— Don Huffines (@DonHuffines) August 15, 2025
It's time to put Texas on the path to eliminating the school property tax!
The incumbent comptroller pointed out to the Lege and Abbott two years ago that most of the state surplus (at the time) came from school taxes. He advocated returning the monies to the schools.
No one, of course, listened.
It actually violates the black letter of the state constitution to have a statewide property tax. Due to the way the Lege decided to make school finance “equitable” 40 years ago, school taxes now go to Austin, where it’s the state government’s slush fund. But it’s not effectively a state property tax (school taxes are property taxes), because the Texas Supreme Court said it wasn’t. Might have ruined the state budget to say otherwise, don’t you know.
Which has bugger all to do with Huffines, because the Comptroller has bugger all to do with taxes. Huffines knows that. He’s just trolling the rubes.
Anything that denigrates the public schools that most GOP primary voters rely on to babysit the kids, if nothing else, sells well with them. Why they consistently act in violation of their own interests, is one of the enduring mysteries. I think they all imagine they’ll one day be rich, and have “fuck you” money, as long as they don’t vote for Democrats.
Texas politicians could give Trump lessons in fleecing the rubes and keeping themselves in office.
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