@Texas Property Tax Bill

[dove]

Texas is gonna Texas.

State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Greenville) has filed House Bill 2889, which would roll back all property taxes for Texans with ten children.

BUT only for hetero married couples, excluding those who have been divorced before

Link

This is so vile. I was discussing with a friend who is doing IVF she asked TIC “I have 10 embryos on ice. Do I qualify?”

[Velar Fricative]

This has more details:

www.chron.com/news/article/texas-bill-property-tax-cuts-heterosexual-families-17819304.php

Rollbacks start at four kids, and only for the never-divorced hetero married couples. Gross.

[Michelle]

Straight out of the quiverfull movement.

Hopefully all our multiple-times divorced candidates will shoot that down.

But it's super super gross in that you only get a tax discount for your overpopulation efforts if you can actually afford to own property.

[wise_rita]

Waco's tax base would've taken quite the hit in the 90s!

Gross.

[dirtyred]

If anything, they should charge these people MORE in taxes, as they use more services--more kids in school, etc.

[carmenere]

Mar 7, 2023 19:00:29 GMT -5 Michelle said:

Straight out of the quiverfull movement.

Hopefully all our multiple-times divorced candidates will shoot that down.

But it's super super gross in that you only get a tax discount for your overpopulation efforts if you can actually afford to own property.

Well Texas doesn’t have individual income tax. And I’m certainly not opposed to a child tax credit or similar. But the fact that it starts at four children definitely rubs me the wrong way.

[erbear]

Why in the world are we encouraging more population growth? ::rhetorical::

[Velar Fricative]

Mar 8, 2023 6:51:55 GMT -5 dirtyred said:

If anything, they should charge these people MORE in taxes, as they use more services--more kids in school, etc.

Let’s face it, if you’re having 8 kids in 2023 you aren’t sending them to public school.

[shauni27]

in fucking sane.

[pixy0stix]

This is one of those bills that was introduced just to get in the news, right?

[seeyalater52]

Mar 8, 2023 6:53:06 GMT -5 carmenere said:

Mar 7, 2023 19:00:29 GMT -5 Michelle said:

Straight out of the quiverfull movement.

Hopefully all our multiple-times divorced candidates will shoot that down.

But it's super super gross in that you only get a tax discount for your overpopulation efforts if you can actually afford to own property.

Well Texas doesn’t have individual income tax. And I’m certainly not opposed to a child tax credit or similar. But the fact that it starts at four children definitely rubs me the wrong way.

And is only for straight, cisgender parents.

[rubytue]

Mar 8, 2023 11:04:58 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Mar 8, 2023 6:53:06 GMT -5 carmenere said:

Well Texas doesn’t have individual income tax. And I’m certainly not opposed to a child tax credit or similar. But the fact that it starts at four children definitely rubs me the wrong way.

And is only for straight, cisgender parents.

Who’ve never been divorced and all children were born after marriage. 

this is so sick it makes me feel slimy just reading about it.

[Michelle]

Mar 8, 2023 6:53:06 GMT -5 carmenere said:

Mar 7, 2023 19:00:29 GMT -5 Michelle said:

Straight out of the quiverfull movement.

Hopefully all our multiple-times divorced candidates will shoot that down.

But it's super super gross in that you only get a tax discount for your overpopulation efforts if you can actually afford to own property.

Well Texas doesn’t have individual income tax. And I’m certainly not opposed to a child tax credit or similar. But the fact that it starts at four children definitely rubs me the wrong way.

 If the legislators really cared about helping all Texas families, there are many other ways to do it.

This primarily benefits republican families, based on the wealth distribution and property ownership rates in our state. And republicans tend to be white and conservative Latinos. It excludes all the LGBTQ+ parents who happily take on lots of foster kids and adopt when there are no legal hurdles to do so. It's gross.

[mcsangel2]

No one's asked yet - is it only for white people? Because you know they really only want to encourage higher birth rates among whites. Just like conservatives think that banning abortion will lead to an increase of white babies available for adoption.

[sonrisa]

Yay for positive eugenics!

[basilosaurus]

Mar 8, 2023 8:40:10 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Mar 8, 2023 6:51:55 GMT -5 dirtyred said:

If anything, they should charge these people MORE in taxes, as they use more services--more kids in school, etc.

Let’s face it, if you’re having 8 kids in 2023 you aren’t sending them to public school.

They go to the school of the dining room table of course. And probably get tax credits for curriculum.