Her comment on gun registration is in regards to the Federal Firearms Laws and their licensing requirements. She believes that it is an unconstitutional practice as this authority is not specifically delegated by the US Constitution. She then stated that whatever restrictions that are to be in place were to be put there by the people of Texas which we have done. At NO POINT did she say she was in favor of repealing ANY existing STATE legislation regarding firearms. She has, however, expressed a favorable view of Open Carry without licensing requirements as the RKBA is a fundamental right essential to liberty. I wish I had a citation handy but you can take this from her website "Protecting freedom requires that the people be well armed. Government cannot protect us from violence, we must defend ourselves. On the essential elements of freedom, we must not compromise and we must not surrender. Texans must not compromise and must not surrender their right to keep and bear arms. We must not only nullify federal laws that threaten that right but encourage citizens to be, as Madison encouraged, “trained to arms, as that is the best and most natural defense of a free country.”RPB wrote: I agree with her declaration, but her action would be to take away our licenses so we can only carry in our car like she does?
FACT: I've been robbed various times with various bad guys who had at least 2 shotguns and 4 pistols, none of the times was I in my car.
Has she shown ANY legislation she hopes to get passed by the Texas legislature that would still allow us to carry to protect ourselves after she repeals the CHL laws? hmmmm
She wants to end registration of guns in Texas .... wait, we don't have registration of guns in Texas, sounds like a lady that really did her research
Again, this is total fabrication on your part. A consumption tax is THE LEAST burdensome form of taxation on private enterprise and individual citizens. It is easily planned for and enforced uniformly across the entire tax base. It is also the least likely to experience tax hikes as you can not selectively increase the rate on a specific minority section of the voting population as with a business or income tax.RPB wrote: Don't even get me started on her plan to stop the revenues to cities like Pasadena from property taxes on the big oil refineries and chemical plants, and impose higher sales taxes on all of us to make up the difference.
Don't even get me started on how with the sales tax money she wants to give it to Austin to control where to spend it, instead of keeping local property taxes under local control.
I don't want Austin saying "The school in Hidalgo needs new computers, your EMS salaries and Fire Truck can wait" when they disperse our sales tax money..
Don't get me started on how a sales tax is always a regressive tax which taxes poorer people a greater percent than it does Donald Trump according to their respective incomes, while she wants to eliminate the tax on all of Donald Trump type people's multiple properties only for us to make up the difference when I can barely buy material to keep my shack of a home repaired now and will pay higher sales taxes on those materials, and have no say in how they are spent. No thanks, I'll happily pay my $600 a year propery tax and help decide how it is spent ... locally.
Furthermore, and this is really Mrs. Medina's fault for not clarifying, she does not intent to supplement the loss of property tax via an increase to the general sales tax per say. I have taken the explanation below from her website (I encourage everyone to give it a once over here)
For reaming her as bad as you do for not doing her research..... Let's just say that I hope you now have a more informed opinion.Texas has several options available to repeal property taxes and replace the lost revenues with a sales tax. The major differences across the options depend on defining the sales tax base and the manner in which the sales or consumption tax will be levied. One option is to keep the current sales tax base. However, the current sales tax base is narrow compared to total annual consumption in the state of Texas. If the current sales tax base is used, then the sales tax rate would need to be around 14.5 percent in order for the property tax repeal to be statically revenue neutral. Expanding the tax base, which is a desirable tax reform in its own right, can significantly lower the necessary sales tax rate for static revenue neutrality. The first expansion would incorporate property sales into the tax base. Taxing property only once—at the point of sale—would correct many of the problems associated with property taxes, as well as lower the tax rate burden on all other goods and services subject to the sales tax.
Currently, property taxes are assessed each year based on an imagined (taxable) value of the property; for many homeowners, these include unrealized capital gains. Levying a sales tax when the property is sold corrects for this problem because the sales tax will be based on the property’s transaction price. The prospect of being taxed out of one’s home is consequently removed. The entire property assessment structure is also no longer necessary as the value of the property no longer needs to be estimated. Consequently, broadening the sales tax to include property allows the total sales tax rate to be lower (due to the broader sales tax base) while still removing many of the adverse impacts from the property tax. Alternative tax rates and tax bases that include property sales in the sales tax base are:
• 12.5 percent if the current sales tax base is used;
• 9.0 percent if all services that are taxed in at least one state are taxed in Texas; and
• 6.5 percent if the sales tax base is the total value of goods and services in Texas’ economy, with adjustments to remove non-taxable items (such as government purchases).