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The Michael Berry Show

AM Show Hr 2 | Harris County Dems Are Hoping To Raise Property Taxes By 8%.

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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0:00.0

It's that time.

0:02.0

Lock and load.

0:05.0

Lock and load.

0:08.0

The Michael Vary Show is on the air. No Rodney Thulena is exploiting a loophole to raise your property taxes.

0:32.1

8% without requiring voter approval.

0:37.0

How does he do that?

0:39.0

I told you, he's very clever.

0:43.0

That dumb-dumb Lena could never do this.

0:47.0

Sheila Jackson Lee, she wouldn't know how to do it.

0:50.0

Sylvester, uh-uh.

0:52.0

Although Sylvester is smarter than the others. But Rodney, he's very smart.

0:59.1

So there is a state law which says to counties, which enabled counties who've experienced a recent natural disaster, and we did, that you get an exemption to raise taxes above 3.5% because you've just had a natural disaster.

1:28.8

Well nobody thinks that the county needs to raise taxes and by the way from 3.5% to 8% it'll give

1:38.4

them $250 million in new revenue. No, they'll go out to all the dumb dums they campaign to and say,

1:45.8

them Republicans, they don't want you to have nice food, but we do. They don't want you to have a grocery store in your

1:55.7

neighborhood. They begrudge y'all having nice clothes to go back to school, free health care, improved buses, nice purses.

2:09.8

They don't want you to have all that nice stuff, but we do.

2:13.0

They don't want to pay more taxes because they're greedy.

2:17.0

They want to keep the money they earn, and we want you to have it.

2:22.0

And that will be their campaign and it'll be an off-year

2:26.5

election and because Republicans don't field candidates in off-year elections, then that becomes, is this on November's ballot?

2:39.7

Because usually what they do is they put this on an off-year election.

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