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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Seven fifty two our time here on Houston's morning News,
Doctor Jeff Attika joins this director the Warrior Defense Project
Saint Mary's Law School. You know, we debate property taxes
here in the Great State of Taxes all the time. Jeff,
I don't think any of our listeners would disagree with
the idea of giving major property tax relief to andy
(00:21):
disabled veteran. In fact, I think I don't care what
the level of disability is. If you want to take
all property taxes away from a disabled veteran, I'm fine
with that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, you know that's very true. In fact, the Republican
Party and Governor Abbott ran primarily on property tax relief,
and what better group of people, what better group of
Texans to provide property tax relief and disabled veterans. These
are people that were disabled in the line of duty,
not you know, before service or after service. The current
law provides one hundred percent property tax relief if you're
(00:53):
one hundred percent disabled, but for anybody that's ninety nine
percent disabled or ninety percent disabled, it's basically they give
you a couple of dollars off the property tax that
you will owe, so it's practically nothing This came to
my attention last year. I'm a law professor here in
San Antonio, Texas, and so I proposed a change to
the law to make it if you're ninety percent disabled,
(01:15):
ninety percent tax relief eighty percent, eighty all the way
down the line to ten percent. And May's Middleton, a
senator from Texas in your area, actually crafted a bill
and it's now out there. The House is crafting a
bill as well. There are thirty one Senators and one
hundred and fifty Texas House representatives. They need to get
(01:36):
busy and put this together and have the governor sign
this bill.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Do we have any any field, Jeff, for how many
disabled veterans live here in Texas? What amount of people
are we talking about? Are we talking about one hundred,
one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, there are thousands. I don't have an exact number myself.
You know. I know San Antonio we call ourselves Military
City USA. A lot of disabled veterans are here in
this state, there's no question about it. And most of
them served as in the enlisted ranks. In other words,
you're not getting rich in the military, and so they've
got House payments that they can barely meet, and they're disabled,
(02:12):
they have troubles with work and all the other things
associated with the rest of their life, and many of
them are being taxed right out of their own homes. Again,
this law was probably logical when it was passed decades ago,
but there's been no reform, no updates. It's high time
that something needs to be done. And I ask every
listener out there to contact your senator, your house member,
(02:34):
and tell them to get behind this Senate Bill eleven
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, decades ago. Who could have imagined that we would
see property values take off here in Texas the way
we have.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yes, exactly. I mean when the law was written, it's
probably forty thousand dollars homes. Today the average home is
what two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand the mortgage
on top of that, and the inflation going up. It's
time to provide relief for our disabled veterans and people
that say, well, it's going to call us money. Everything
costs money, but you've got to prioritize things in life.
(03:04):
And without these, without our soldiers, we wouldn't be sitting
here sipping our lattes or whatever. We're doing. We wouldn't
have a country at all. This is the number one
priority that we need to provide relief to.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I couldn't agree with them more. Hey, by the way,
well I have you. Let me get your thoughts real
quick on what's going on with DOZE right now. One
of the things that DOGE has uncovered is how much
money that we've been feeding to Islamic terrorist groups through
various different aid organizations like USAID. I mean, we're not
talking about chump change here. We're talking forty fifty sixty
million dollars going to people who meet us harm. I
(03:38):
mean that's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's more than that if you count what we've given
to Afghanistan under the Taliban, It's absolutely insane. The Biden
administration will go down as the most worthless administration in
the history of this country in what they've done to
our culture, our society, our standing in the world. And
then my mind is, let's have a Texas Doge, because
you know, there's fraud, waste, and a viewing in any bureaucracy,
(04:03):
including our great state of Texas. It's time to clean
house and get back to reality common sense.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, I agree. At the state and local level, especially
at the local level if you live in Harris County.
Thank you, sir, appreciate your time as always director to
the Warrior Defense Project at Saint Mary's Law Schools, Doctor
Jeff Atticutt
Seven fifty two our time here on Houston's morning News,
Doctor Jeff Attika joins this director the Warrior Defense Project
Saint Mary's Law School. You know, we debate property taxes
here in the Great State of Taxes all the time. Jeff,
I don't think any of our listeners would disagree with
the idea of giving major property tax relief to andy
(00:21):
disabled veteran. In fact, I think I don't care what
the level of disability is. If you want to take
all property taxes away from a disabled veteran, I'm fine
with that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, you know that's very true. In fact, the Republican
Party and Governor Abbott ran primarily on property tax relief,
and what better group of people, what better group of
Texans to provide property tax relief and disabled veterans. These
are people that were disabled in the line of duty,
not you know, before service or after service. The current
law provides one hundred percent property tax relief if you're
(00:53):
one hundred percent disabled, but for anybody that's ninety nine
percent disabled or ninety percent disabled, it's basically they give
you a couple of dollars off the property tax that
you will owe, so it's practically nothing This came to
my attention last year. I'm a law professor here in
San Antonio, Texas, and so I proposed a change to
the law to make it if you're ninety percent disabled,
(01:15):
ninety percent tax relief eighty percent, eighty all the way
down the line to ten percent. And May's Middleton, a
senator from Texas in your area, actually crafted a bill
and it's now out there. The House is crafting a
bill as well. There are thirty one Senators and one
hundred and fifty Texas House representatives. They need to get
(01:36):
busy and put this together and have the governor sign
this bill.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Do we have any any field, Jeff, for how many
disabled veterans live here in Texas? What amount of people
are we talking about? Are we talking about one hundred,
one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, there are thousands. I don't have an exact number myself.
You know. I know San Antonio we call ourselves Military
City USA. A lot of disabled veterans are here in
this state, there's no question about it. And most of
them served as in the enlisted ranks. In other words,
you're not getting rich in the military, and so they've
got House payments that they can barely meet, and they're disabled,
(02:12):
they have troubles with work and all the other things
associated with the rest of their life, and many of
them are being taxed right out of their own homes. Again,
this law was probably logical when it was passed decades ago,
but there's been no reform, no updates. It's high time
that something needs to be done. And I ask every
listener out there to contact your senator, your house member,
(02:34):
and tell them to get behind this Senate Bill eleven
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, decades ago. Who could have imagined that we would
see property values take off here in Texas the way
we have.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yes, exactly. I mean when the law was written, it's
probably forty thousand dollars homes. Today the average home is
what two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand the mortgage
on top of that, and the inflation going up. It's
time to provide relief for our disabled veterans and people
that say, well, it's going to call us money. Everything
costs money, but you've got to prioritize things in life.
(03:04):
And without these, without our soldiers, we wouldn't be sitting
here sipping our lattes or whatever. We're doing. We wouldn't
have a country at all. This is the number one
priority that we need to provide relief to.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I couldn't agree with them more. Hey, by the way,
well I have you. Let me get your thoughts real
quick on what's going on with DOZE right now. One
of the things that DOGE has uncovered is how much
money that we've been feeding to Islamic terrorist groups through
various different aid organizations like USAID. I mean, we're not
talking about chump change here. We're talking forty fifty sixty
million dollars going to people who meet us harm. I
(03:38):
mean that's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's more than that if you count what we've given
to Afghanistan under the Taliban, It's absolutely insane. The Biden
administration will go down as the most worthless administration in
the history of this country in what they've done to
our culture, our society, our standing in the world. And
then my mind is, let's have a Texas Doge, because
you know, there's fraud, waste, and a viewing in any bureaucracy,
(04:03):
including our great state of Texas. It's time to clean
house and get back to reality common sense.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, I agree. At the state and local level, especially
at the local level if you live in Harris County.
Thank you, sir, appreciate your time as always director to
the Warrior Defense Project at Saint Mary's Law Schools, Doctor
Jeff Atticutt
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