What's the matter with Texans?

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/busines ... 332.735385

..."“It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can’t afford to live here anymore. I’ll protest my appraisal notice, but that’s not enough. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”...

I voted for all the new tax increases for other people, and my taxes went up... what the hell is up with that?

Nobody that matters wrote: I voted for all the new tax increases for other people, and my taxes went up... what the hell is up with that?

Taxes are only to punish the rich. You must be rich.

So the whiner will move out of Austin, and then vote herself a new set of taxes so that she can't afford to live in Austin's suburbs either.

I thought that stuff was supposed to "trickle-down"?

Texas doesn't have personal income tax...So that leaves:
a) Sales Taxes - (Austin's is 8.25%; 7.25% goes to the state, 1% is local)
b) Property Taxes - Have to be higher to make up for the lack of income taxes.
c) Taxes from energy/oil-gas leases ("Severance" taxes) - Goes to the state; not to the local governments...A small percentage is returned to counties sometimes, but not enough to cover infrastructure.

Like all the rest of the tax-cutting states, they are figuring out that when you cut taxes, it DOESN'T create "more wealth" or more jobs--(well, it does create more wealth for the top 1%), and if you want things like parks, schools, libraries, light-rail, etc., they have to be paid for...And when there's a hole in the budget and you can't pay for infrastructure because you've cut so much there isn't enough coming in, you have what's happening in Austin...(Just ask Scott Walker...And Bobby Jindal...and Rick Scott...and ........)

Now, the teabaggers don't care if there's no infrastructure...Close schools; sell the parks to the private sector to scrape off and put strip malls on; light-rail? "We don' need no steenkin' light-rail"...(that's a "lib" thing anyway)...libraries? Close most of them...or put them on reduced schedules (Sounds like JeffCo, don't it?) As long as they get to keep their tax money, the rest can go to he11...

LadyJazzer wrote: blah de blah blah blah

This is about a dumb person that voted in a bunch of taxes and then complained about the taxes.

What the hell did she think was gonna happen?

"Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”...

Has to be one of the stupidest stories I've read, since yesterday anyway. Well Duh.

Someone needs to step in and learn a little math Dumbass! Vote for all the goodies and then Bitch about taxes? Ughhh, I really hate stupid people.

Seriously, we are pretty much toast with this mentality in the country.

IMO states with high property taxes and less or zero in income and sales taxes are going to have more problems. People will just say F it and move.

The title suggests a rhetorical question...

Sure I want more services and public facilities from my local Gubment but why can't other people pay for it?

It must be that the heat is effecting this lady's ability to "do the math"... :Whistle