Critique towards Editorial Post Texas Gov.

In an Editorial Board from the Houston Chronicle,  the author critiques how Texas keeps raising the property taxes and lowering the state spending funds towards education. In other words, Texas is increasing taxes in order for the state to spend way less and the school's still get funded for the same about of money as before. His intended audience is to those residents that live in Texas and own some property "Considering how important education is to Texas’ future, and how much voters hate the inexplicable rise in property taxes year after year,". The author completely being against the rise of taxes by "6.8 percent each year" in order for the state to save a couple billion and keep them in their pockets. The fact that Gov. Greg Abbott wants to "pass an amendment to the Texas constitution about the possible ban of income tax" makes me think that this guy will be putting more money into his pocket and not giving enough funds into education. Since last time I checked Texas has the worst education percentage and I don't see any movement done by this governor in order to fix the situation. I totally agree with the author in the fact that there should be a change made and that "if we want new ideas, we're going to need new leaders". If that is how this state thinks about our education funding's then most likely expect a downfall on education percentages and more citizen's being against such actions. The author provided the reader with a couple solutions to not have such a high percentage on property taxes but as he mentions "We could list other fixes, but the state Legislature has to pass them and the governor has to sign them. Abbott and Patrick showed little interest during the last session". This basically shows the citizens that they are not willing to do anything about school funding and instead increase our property taxes. 

Texas state and local government

This editorial as we may call it done by the University Of Texas at Austin is such a great reading because it really gives you key points to how this state really started from the beginning of the constitution of 1875 all the way to how counties operate. This reading provided to the community is really great because it does not give you many details and instead, it goes straight to the point. This reading starts off with a brief history of how Texas started and what the main population was back then. Also, another interesting fact was how the role of county organizations was done. Starting from having a county court, down to county treasurer and all the good stuff we now have. In addition, the way county's are currently operating really caught my attention because honestly who really pays attention to county operations and how taxes are distributed. This reading really does a great job in hitting important points of how counties operate and provide a much better understanding of where the tax money is really going. This is a short but great reading I recommend reading it could probably take less than five minutes but in this short amount of time you will benefit of great information.