Are your property taxes too high?

• Are your property taxes too high? If you said “yes” and agree that Texans need taxpayer protections, read on…
  
  Even with the current 10% property tax cap on homesteads, your property taxes can double in 7 years. And local officials can claim they didn’t raise your taxes. How? Local taxing entities don’t have to raise the tax rate to dig deeper into taxpayers’ pockets – the appraisal increases are essentially tax increases.
  
  Local governments are growing 4 times faster than our paychecks and local government debt is growing 5 times faster. Local government debt is so great that the interest payments in one year alone equal what all local governments spend on police and fire protection combined.
  
  Do you think government taxes and spends too much? What can you do?
  
  Americans for Prosperity is a taxpayer organization, and we have a plan. We want to:
  
  -- Put government on a diet – government should grow only as fast as the population and inflation and any growth beyond that should require taxpayer approval.
  
  -- Lower the current 10% property tax cap to 3% and include ALL property, not just homesteads.
  
  -- Use the projected $15 BILLION state budget surplus to provide property tax relief.
  
  -- End taxpayer-funded lobbying which allows government entities to hire lobbyists and join organizations that hire lobbyists who then lobby against taxpayer interests. These lobbyists often fight against the taxpayer protections we listed above.

Government goes to those who show up. We are working on a plan and want to hear from you. We'll ask that you not post anonymously, as we want to know who we are hearing from.

Let us hear from you - and we want to work with you to get taxpayer protections enacted in Texas! - Peggy V.