The Michael Berry Show.

All right, you don't want to learn what happened in the legislative session from the media. Do you do you trust them?

To report fairly on Joe Biden or Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or anything else?

You want to actually know what's happened?

Brad Johnson is a senior reporter with the Texan news. And I will tell you it's one of the best sources of news. The Texan its owned by Connie Burton. Holly Hanson is over there. They do wonderful, wonderful work. This fledgling

production has over the last few years since it's founding really, really filled a gap that the Hearst Corporation

Chronicle Dallas Morning News San Antonio Express Austin American statesmen do not fill and Brad Johnson is our guest. We begin now with the special sessions.

By the way, I noticed you posted the story and it's getting a lot of attention. The Saudi backed golf tour and the PGA tour have announced that they will be merging to unify the game of golf. Brad, do you have something to offer?

I just think it's fascinating. There's this massive risk over the last two, three years in the game of golf. And now they're finally putting their hatchets down and coming to an agreement. What that is, I'm not sure exactly. I think the actual details of the deal will be very fascinating.

The rift as I see it as the Saudis are wallet whipping people to leave the vaunted PGA and the PGA is unwilling or unable to to match that money. And I'm wondering if this is the Saudi control of the PGA because they wallet whip them as well. Could be very interesting. All right. So we just finished a session. We start the special sessions. You've been talking about the competing plans. Tell me. If you would explain.

The Senate plan, which the damn Patrick plan, who's the lieutenant governor versus Dave feeling the speaker of the house versus Greg Abbott, if you could make those kind of simple, I think people would really appreciate that.

I will do my best.

By the way, to put it into perspective. And this is what people have been hearing. I notice you retweeted from Justin Farrell as well on his notification center. He gets one text that says, Texas property tax relief experts agree the damn Patrick Senate plan of homestead exemptions and tax rate compression is better than the Abbott feeling plan.

Then right after that, a text that says Greg Abbott wants to slash school property tax is 29% and eventually eliminate them call Senator Schwerkner and ask him to support the Greg Abbott plan. So layout, if you would, the three plans.

Well, the house and governor Abbott's plan are essentially the same at the moment. The Texas House before it adjourned, signing die after one day in the special session.

Pass the plan to allocate $12.3 billion towards entirely rate compression, which is essentially the state buying down local school district property tax rates, injecting state funding to reduce the amount of money that these schools bring collect in property taxes.

That strategy has been deployed before. And I think it will be deployed again. So that's the house and the governor Abbott plan at the moment.

Brad, let me, let me hold you right there for a moment. Brad Johnson of the Texans are guests. What that doesn't do is affect the appraisals of the properties because the appraisal creep is one of the things that's really hurting people.

You bought a house for 100,000 20 years ago and now they tell you it's worth 600,000. But unless you sell it, you don't capture that, but you do pay more in property taxes. My understanding is this does that plan doesn't address that right.

You are correct. Now the house during the regular session really wanted to set in an extended appraisal cap of 5%. Now that would have applied to all property, not just homesteads.

That would have benefited businesses as well. But the Senate would not budge on that during the regular session. So if now the house has dropped that and they're going just with rate compression, which will apply to every property across the board.

Not, you know, they're marketing it as not picking favorite in this issue.

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