As part of our Texas Lege preview we talked to sarah_eckhardt: “I get that property tax is painful, [but] we’re never going to have a surplus like this again.”
The 10 Democratic members of the Texas Senate have two mandates. One is to faithfully represent the viewpoints of their constituents, which matters a lot. The other is to actually get something, anything, done to fix what's broken in Texas, about which they can do very little under the iron rule of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. And so Sen.
"I think I can be of the most service during this particular round in putting actual movement behind expanding mental health care," Eckhardt told thelast month."Surprisingly, Patrick admitted we need to expand our state hospital system" in the Lite Guv's rollout of his priorities for the 88th Lege.
Luckily, we actually have a lot of money to do it, an unprecedented $30 billion budget surplus that is mostly one-time dollars and that, because this is Texas, Patrick et al. mostly want to give away to middle- and upper-class homeowners."I get that property tax is painful. The best structural change [would be] to increase the basic allotment" of per-student state funding to local schools"and index it [to inflation], so the state is always paying its fair share.
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