Gutting local Government and public schools is next:

[applegrove]

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GOP in TX, FL, & TN are pushing to eliminate property taxes.
They call it “relief.”
It is actually a trap designed to bankrupt pub schools& gut local democracy.
In TX, Phase 1 already passed in Nov 2025.
Here is the endgame they do not want you to see. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

— Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo (@digitalwarrior.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T17:38:32.508Z

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The core trick is simple. Property taxes are stable. Sales taxes are volatile. They want to swap one for the other. When a recession hits, sales tax revenue collapses.
Without property tax as a backup, schools face instant insolvency. This is not a mistake. It is the point.

— Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo (@digitalwarrior.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T17:38:32.509Z

3/
We already know how this ends.
South Carolina passed Act 388 in 2006.
They replaced school property taxes with sales taxes.
Result: a billion annual shortfall.
Schools lost about ,400 per student.
Poor districts collapsed when the state failed to backfill the money.

— Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo (@digitalwarrior.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T17:38:32.510Z

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Now look at Texas.
In Nov 2025, voters passed Prop 13 and Prop 9.
These did not just cut taxes.
They hollowed out the local tax base.
Schools are now legally dependent on the state to survive.
Local financial independence is already gone. Phase 1 complete.

— Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo (@digitalwarrior.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T17:38:32.511Z

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Phase 2 is what comes next.
Governor Abbott is campaigning in 2026 on fully eliminating school property taxes.
That creates a single choke point: the State General Fund.
If the economy dips, the state cuts the check.
Local schools have no way to fill the gap. None.

— Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo (@digitalwarrior.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T17:38:32.512Z

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This ties directly to vouchers.
Texas passed Prop 15 in 2025 to protect vouchers from court challenges.
Now private schools can drain the same General Fund.
Here is the fiscal trap:
Lower taxes shrink revenue.
Vouchers drive costs up.
Public schools get liquidated to balance the books.

— Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo (@digitalwarrior.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T17:38:32.513Z

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Who pays for this so-called relief?
Working ppl. Renters.
In Texas, the top 1 percent pay about 3 percent of their income in taxes.
The bottom 20 percent pay nearly 13 percent.
Prop. taxes hit assets. Sales taxes hit consumption.
Renters get nothing from Prop 13 & pay more on everything they buy.

— Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo (@digitalwarrior.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T17:38:32.514Z

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This is also about power.
When local tax bases are capped or eliminated, cities lose their purse.
Austin. Houston. San Antonio.
They cannot fund climate action, housing, or mental health without begging the state.
The Governor gains a pocketbook veto over local democracy.

— Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo (@digitalwarrior.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T17:38:32.515Z

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They are locking this in through the constitution.
It takes a supermajority to raise revenue.
It takes a simple majority to cut it.
Once property taxes are gone, you cannot bring them back in a crisis.
They are burning the lifeboats on purpose.

— Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo (@digitalwarrior.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T17:38:32.516Z

10/
The trap was set in 2025.
The door closes in 2026.
Eliminating property taxes is not relief.
It is the demolition of public schools and public goods.
They are trading your local school’s survival for a sales tax hike that will crush you in the next recession.
Do not let them finish the job.

— Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo (@digitalwarrior.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T17:38:32.517Z

[BigMin28]

1. It has already

Begun where I live. They are just finishing up with the demolition of an elementary school and middle school down the street from me. The city closed and demolished four schools in all. None older than 50 years. Yet, less than a mile down the road, a new charter school is being built. Plano used to pride itself on it's public education system. I'm so glad my children are grown.

[applegrove]

2. Oh that is so sad.