December 18, 2018      2:25 PM

Gov. Abbott endorses effort to eliminate already remote possibility of income tax in Texas ever

Amid huge budget needs including school finance and Harvey relief, Abbott pushes taking revenue stream off the table even though it’s nowhere near the table

After spending the weekend trashing local governments and perhaps jokingly proposing a wall between New Mexico and Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday endorsed a proposal to eliminate the possibility of this state ever adopting an income tax.

Of course, the Texas Constitution has since 1993 mandated that enactment of an income tax would require a vote of the people at the ballot box. “We’ll have casinos in Baptist churches before we have an income tax in Texas,” the old joke goes.

By Scott Braddock

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