Post-Proposition 4, the Trib talks about climate change and Texas reservoirs, in ways that neither Prop. 4 itself, nor in different ways, the Texas Green Party did. Fuck em all, including the Trib for not posting this before the election, and calling out High Plains farmers and ranchers like Suzanne Bellsnyder for presumably deliberately ignoring this as well as overpumping of the Ogallala Aquifer, which the Trib never even discusses.
“Wooo we gave tax cuts to the rich and made life shit for the poor! Go us!” That's a quote off social media from the Barbed Wire noting how fucked up the state was in approving all 17 amendments. Give it a read. Here's more:
“Boomers can’t seem to pull the ladder up behind them fast enough,” wrote another.
“Hard to believe Texans actually voted to protect the wealthy freeloading class from paying their fair share of taxes,” a user posted on Blue Sky.
“I expect some voters had NO idea what their vote was supporting,” wrote another.
The piece notes only 15 amendments have lost in the past 30 years, per Jon Taylor, chair of the political science department at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Taylor adds vote turnout was the best in 20 years, prolly cuz of banning nonexistent taxes.
And on Prop 4, it notes:
In the end, a few measures did pass that actually invest in Texas’ long-term wellbeing. Just enough to say we care! Proposition 4 puts $1 billion a year toward fixing our water system before it crumbles (though there are apparently some arguments to be had about data centers expanding across arid West Texas), and Proposition 14 establishes a $3 billion Dementia Prevention and Research Institute.
And snark on Prop 5:
And Proposition 5 exempts animal feed from taxes, meaning cows are now possibly getting more tax relief than renters.
Totally agreed.
It also throws Austin's neoliberals and any remaining Keep Austin Weird wannabes under the bus on local Prop Q:
As Taylor told The Barbed Wire, the vote was a “decisive no across Austin’s political spectrum, with affordability driving the vote.”
There you go.
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