Texas Doesn’t Need Another Cookie-Cutter Candidate — We Need the Truth About Property Taxes

 By Freddie America

Candidate for Texas House District 89

Texas Doesn’t Need Another Cookie-Cutter Candidate — We Need Honesty.

Every election, politicians recycle the same phrases:

“Cap property taxes.”

“Lower your tax burden.”

“Hold the line on spending.”

It sounds good.

It polls well.

It fits neatly into a campaign ad.

But here’s the truth no one else is telling you:

You don’t “cap” something that’s already unconstitutional.

Property taxes themselves are constitutional.

But everything being done with them — the way they are raised, the way appraisals are manipulated, the way boards operate without your vote — is completely unconstitutional.

And capping an unconstitutional process doesn’t fix it.

It only hides the problem.

What No Other Candidate Will Tell You

If anyone out there says:

“We’re going to cap property taxes.”

That’s a false statement.

You can’t put a “cap” on a system that violates:

  •        Article 8, Section 1 — taxation must be equal, fair, and uniform

  •        Article 8, Section 24 — no tax shall be imposed without voter approval

  •        Due Process protections — government cannot take your home without lawful process and consent

Right now, homeowners are being taxed without consent.

That is the problem.

Not the rate.

Not the cap.

Not the appraisal method.

The entire process must be restored to what the Texas Constitution already requires.

 There Should Be No Need for a Tax Cap — Not When the Law Is Being Followed

When a system is constitutional:

  •        You vote on taxation

  •        Appraisal boards can’t raise values unchecked

  •        Seniors and veterans aren’t threatened with losing their homes

  •        Local government must justify spending to the people

  •      “Tax caps” become unnecessary

  •        The power stays with you, not them

Texans don’t need another promise of a cap.

Texans need the Constitution restored.

That’s what the insiders won’t say because it means giving power back to the voters — not back to Austin