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12 hours ago, Boss Hogg said:

Absolutely. People should vote. If it passes then why should posters on an unrelated message board care?

People keep saying/writing things like this, demonstrating they either have no clue how any of this works or would simply prefer to pretend that the largess they enjoy in their suburban communities is not being heavily subsidized by people in the city, particularly Austinites.   

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12 hours ago, Boss Hogg said:

This board is heavily populated with posters who complain about how inhospitable this state is, whilst the population balloons from people thrilled to move here. 
 

There’s a lot of frustrated posters here. Too much virtue to live here, not enough money to move to California or Colorado where they’d truly be happy. 

It's possible to love Texas and hate the corruption.  

Anyone who can defend recapture with a straight face is either a crook or a moron. 

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  • 1 month later...

It sounds like we prematurely judged the good people of Prosper as being football-crazed-dumb-cows. From the DMN this morning looks like this bond won't pass:

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Unofficial voting results for Prosper Independent School District’s $2.8 billion bond package, which includes $94 million for a new football stadium, show 55.12% of voters voted against the stadium bond.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2023/11/07/early-results-for-prosper-isd-bond-package-unfavorable-for-stadium/?

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1 hour ago, BeardIP said:

It sounds like we prematurely judged the good people of Prosper as being football-crazed-dumb-cows. From the DMN this morning looks like this bond won't pass:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2023/11/07/early-results-for-prosper-isd-bond-package-unfavorable-for-stadium/?

And the other 3 won by about 10%. Including the Fine Arts Bond. 

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On 9/21/2023 at 8:05 PM, TwiceHorn said:

The problem isn't recapture, per se, it's relying entirely on property taxes to fund public education. https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/31/texas-robin-hood-recapture-villain-texas-fix-school-finance/

It's inherently biased in favor of property-rich school districts, and unconstitutional under the Texas Constitution, but not the US Constitution.

If we get rid of recapture, we're going to have a problem as long as we rely on property taxes.

Property rich districts like Austin ISD? How's that working out?

I support recapture in theory. I have no problem with a share of my property taxes being allocated to improve the quality of education and supplement the resources of property-poor districts whose basic needs are not being met. I'm not OK with Prosper ISD getting $100 million dollars in recapture and then having the audacity to try to pass a bond to spend almost the exact same amount as they get in recapture to build a football stadium, even if that bond didn't pass. If you can raise $100 million for football, you shouldn't be taking $100 million from the taxpayers of Austin, Dallas and Houston. 

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