
Texas Jeff
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Texas Jeff started following 2025 State Fair , Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal , Caden Sterns and 2 others
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You're not wrong. Remember Prop A from last year? Austin voters voted to voluntarily raise their own school property taxes to cover "copper" pennies. If those "copper" pennies were simply changed to be "golden" pennies, meaning no recapture, the budget would balance with room to spare. It would mean $130 million in new funding for the district per year, and it would not affect the "original" recapture payment at all. That would still go to the state. Such an easy fix and yet here we are ...
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Michael Taaffe wants you to stop being such fucking pussies.
Texas Jeff replied to immamac's topic in Football
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Sounds difficult…
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The Patton / Small community is very important to the Austin High community. Those parents always showed up. The Travis Country community was also a huge part of O. Henry and Austin High. I get that they are trying to fill up Crockett and change the demographics to balance enrollment, but it seems crazy to deliberately reduce the population at Small and Austin High, schools that are mostly full today. They are trying to keep all of the high schools open by spreading the kids around ... which may lower utilization at Small and Austin High ... and again what was the point of this exercise?
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Texas Jeff replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
I really hope it was these guys: -
Almost 100 years ago ...
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When I saw Manning slide live, I thought maybe he could have made it. After watching the replay, I agree with you, just slide. Manning slid around 4:42. OU burned two timeouts and the clock ran down to 2:59 before the field goal attempt. Had Texas been able to get another first down, they could have taken it down to maybe a smidge over a minute.
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I'm a product of Carrollton/Farmers Branch ISD. We have a long history of being doormats for surrounding schools. We had a year where crosstown rivals winless Newman Smith played winless R. L. Turner, which should have produced a win for somebody. They tied. We peaked when we produced Vanilla Ice.
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What's the deal with the tiny press box? 😀
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Here's links to the board information session. There are two videos, evidently there were technical problems at the end of the first one and they broke it into two chunks: Public comment and district presentation, about 2.5 hours: Board discussion, about two hours:
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I will be voting no. The city proposed a 20% tax rate increase for Project Connect with pictures of a downtown tunnel and a stop at the airport. They got the money and almost immediately cancelled the tunnel and the airport stop. The city is proposing this 20% tax rate increase now. The PAC supporting the city is claiming that Greg Abbott and Donald Trump have made cuts to the city budget and this is to restore those cuts. Which is bullshit and the city and PAC know it. The mayor and all but one of the city council members are supporting this argument. This is a choice between a 3.5% raise in taxes and an 8% raise in taxes. The additional revenue isn't earmarked for anything. It's more money for the stuff the city spends money on, a large portion of which is police, fire, EMS, the homeless and salads. If you support higher spending on city services and your number is 8%, then you should vote for this. If you are OK with the 3.5% number, you should vote against. I would like to see more honesty from our city before I go for the higher number, and I'm not seeing that. Most people aren't looking at an 8% raise this year, which means that a larger portion of their income will go towards city taxes, which makes it tougher to live in Austin. I can't support that.
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BTW, full disclosure... The tax rate is going up 10% or 20%, but that translates into an actual city tax increase of about 3.5% (if it fails) or 8% (if it passes)
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none of it is going to schools.
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The City of Austin is proposing to raise your city property taxes via Prop Q. If this passes, the city tax rate will rise by 10 cents, from 47.76 cents to 57.40 cents, a 20% increase in the tax rate. If this fails, the city tax rate will rise by only 5 cents, from 47.76 cents to 52.40 cents, a mere 10% increase in the tax rate. 10 cents of tax rate translates to $100 per year for every $100,000 of your home's taxable value. What saith the Surl? Do you plan to vote and if so, are you for or against? Early voting runs Oct 20-31. Voting day is Nov 4th. This is an off-year election so turnout will be tiny.
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