On May 4, 2019 my classmate posted the blog stag 7. I choose to comment on this blog post. I totally identify with what the blog is talking about. Since President Trump has taken office, everything has been destroyed and a lot of changes have been made. I agree that local governments should have more control over their land. Taking people’s taxes and using that money to make a wall between Texas and Mexico needs to be stopped. It is true that the media is trying to tell local governments to try to stop Trump because he is destroying other people’s land that has been theirs for years and years, I agree with all the statements, but unfortunately no one has listened to the media, and they are building a wall. I feel like we need to stop President Trump, but at the end nobody really can stop him, until his term is done.

The testimony “Texas public policy Foundation” is mainly about Texas Property Taxes that have been growing faster than average. Most people in Texas don’t have any more money to pay for their Property Taxes because those taxes are already too much to pay. Texas has the craziest property system in the nation. Most property holders and businesses are being kicked out of their homes or running out of money because they cannot afford their property taxes.  Sixty-seven percent of voters in the 2018 Republican primary election agreed that property taxes should be replaced with a sales tax. I think that is a great idea, because a sales tax would not take as much money from people and school districts as property tax.

Governor Rick Perry created The Texas Tax Reform Commission that devised a plan to reduce property tax rates while Increasing state funding of education. A good example of a property tax is one of my friends who had a house. Each year she had to pay a property tax, and each year the tax was increasing, and she could not do anything about it. She was just going to wait to pay it until the tax collector insisted. Texas has a big issue, a big problem with property taxes and they should do something about it. Numbers of people have had great trouble paying for their property taxes. Many people have lost a lot of money, and numbers of people became homeless. Texas should do something about property taxes because people are losing money and this can lead to a disaster.