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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Governor Greg Gabbott has a thirty nine percent job approval
rating according to the latest UT poll, and that's actually
down a point from the last one that they did
in August. The question is why Brian Harrison is a
Texas state representative. Good morning, Brian, How are you there?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hey, good morning. Always great to be with you guys
down kat Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, we certainly appreciate the opportunity to chat with you.
So what do you make to this. We know it's
a very very divided political time right now, and virtually
every Democratic Democrat is going to go against every Republican
and maybe vice versa. But you know, Texas is Texas.
Why is Governor Abbot down there underwater? Well?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You know, so, I don't know the specifics of the poll,
but I do understand that it's not good, historic lows
for our Republican governor, and as a state that re
elected President Trump and a fourteen point landslide, it's who
voted for bold Republican leadership and who deserves bold Republican leadership.
I'm going to tell you what's not causing it. His
(00:57):
poll numbers are not low because we're not living rule
enough or not, you know, pushing enough Democrat policies, because
quite frankly, Democrat policies are sailing through the Texas legislature.
And here here's the just to take it back to basics, Texas.
I'm a proud Texas and love this state. We've got
a reputation for leading and freedom and individual liberty and
small government and low taxes and low regulations. But that's
(01:21):
just a myth, and we have for far too many
years just been coasting on our conservative reputation. I'm doing
everything I can to help us live up to it.
But I'll tell you what, if the governor would do
just a handful of things. I got some suggestions for
the governor, if they're listening right now, do the kinds
of things that I've been asking you to do. I've
written letter after letter to the governor. Let's do some
(01:42):
of the big things that matter to Texans. Let's put
our state on a path to eliminate property taxes. I mean,
because never ending property taxes, they're unethical, they're immoral. You
can never own your home in the state of Texas.
That's ridiculous. So we should do big things. Cut property
taxes in half day and put us on a path
to get rid of all property taxes within a few years.
(02:04):
That's something we could absolutely do. Let's stop weaponizing Texans
tax pay your money against them and against their values
and against children. We should cut all funding to any
state agencies in the universities that are still doing DEI
and transgender and doctrination. I mean, very few Texans approved,
maybe almost none, just about of their tax dollars being
(02:26):
spent to indoctrinate the next generation and transgender and doctrination,
where we're sending billions of dollars to liberal Hollywood. Cut
that madness off, send it back to Texans. Let Texas
truly be free, get us rid of property tax I'll
tell you what, if he did those kinds of things
and cut spending, his approval numbers wouldn't be in the tank,
(02:46):
and he'd be the most popular governor, and not just Republican,
he probably the most popular governor of all the fifty
states and Texans. I just want Texas to be the
number one state for liberty, and we're far from it.
And look at look at Florida. Florida used to be
a parreally purple state. It was always a swing state,
you know, in the presidential license. Who's gonna win the
White House all depends on Florida, but not anymore. Florida
(03:09):
solidly in the red column. And I'll tell you why
that's happening, because of bold, real Republican leadership, and quite frankly,
we just haven't had that from the elected leadership in
the state of Texas for aqut too many years.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, you beat me to it, Representative Harrison, because I
was going to bring up Rondo Santis, who is probably
the best and most popular governor, and he is also
for ending property taxes. He's one of the ones who's
saying it is ridiculous to think that people who have
paid their mortgages off have to then lease their homes
from the government or else be kicked out if you
don't make the payments. But the question he and several
other states a handful of them anyway, that are talking
(03:43):
about eliminating property taxes, the question is how do you
replace the revenue generated by it? Any idea in Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, absolutely, I mean there's two pieces to that question.
And number one, you can't really cut tech. And this
is why the Texas the Liberal Austin you know party
is never willing to cut taxes because you know what
they're never willing to do, which you really do have
to do. They're not willing to cut spending the Texas budget.
Not only are we not cutting spending.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know, I'm old.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'm not that old, I'm forty three, but I'm old
enough to remember when Texas Republicans wanted to cut spending
and cut taxes, and they know they go handing love
and the Texas legislature. Not only are we not cutting spending,
this latest liberal train wreck of a budget exploded state spending.
Get this, a staggering forty two percent from just two
(04:29):
budget cycles ago. So number one, we got to cut spending,
and that's super easy. I filed legislation to cut ninety
nine zero, ninety billion dollars worth of leftist woke, wasteful
nonsense and the budget that could have cut people's property
taxes almost in half immediately and would have cost nobody
any additional revenue just from cutting the waste and the
(04:51):
leftist nonsense in our government. So that's number one. Cut spending,
make us actually a small government state. And if for
whatever you do have to make up, we could easily
tweak our consumption tax laws broaden the base. I don't
even think the sales tax rate would have to go
up very much. And think about what would happen to prices.
Two people say, well, sales tax go up, maybe prices
(05:13):
go up. I don't even think so, because one of
the biggest drivers of price inflation the costs that every
small business brick and mortar mod pods store shop in Texas.
One of their biggest costs is the crushing sales tax
bill that the government and post forces on them that
they don't have a choice but to pass through to
the customers or to their renters or whatever. So this
(05:35):
is absolutely doable, and by the way, it's not even theoretical.
Over at least three Texas cities have already, even without
changes to our laws, gotten rid of property taxes on
their own. The bottom line is, the state of Texas
could eliminate property taxes. We could for sure cut them
almost in half.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well immediately, I apologize for cutting up, but I'm out
of time here. I hope Governor Rabbit is listening to
these kind of common sense ideas and maybe those poll
numbers will be going in the other direction. But Representative
Brian Harrison, thank you, so much for the time. We
appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's always great to be with y'all. God bless y'all,
God bless Texas
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And you as well.
Governor Greg Gabbott has a thirty nine percent job approval
rating according to the latest UT poll, and that's actually
down a point from the last one that they did
in August. The question is why Brian Harrison is a
Texas state representative. Good morning, Brian, How are you there?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hey, good morning. Always great to be with you guys
down kat Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, we certainly appreciate the opportunity to chat with you.
So what do you make to this. We know it's
a very very divided political time right now, and virtually
every Democratic Democrat is going to go against every Republican
and maybe vice versa. But you know, Texas is Texas.
Why is Governor Abbot down there underwater? Well?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You know, so, I don't know the specifics of the poll,
but I do understand that it's not good, historic lows
for our Republican governor, and as a state that re
elected President Trump and a fourteen point landslide, it's who
voted for bold Republican leadership and who deserves bold Republican leadership.
I'm going to tell you what's not causing it. His
(00:57):
poll numbers are not low because we're not living rule
enough or not, you know, pushing enough Democrat policies, because
quite frankly, Democrat policies are sailing through the Texas legislature.
And here here's the just to take it back to basics, Texas.
I'm a proud Texas and love this state. We've got
a reputation for leading and freedom and individual liberty and
small government and low taxes and low regulations. But that's
(01:21):
just a myth, and we have for far too many
years just been coasting on our conservative reputation. I'm doing
everything I can to help us live up to it.
But I'll tell you what, if the governor would do
just a handful of things. I got some suggestions for
the governor, if they're listening right now, do the kinds
of things that I've been asking you to do. I've
written letter after letter to the governor. Let's do some
(01:42):
of the big things that matter to Texans. Let's put
our state on a path to eliminate property taxes. I mean,
because never ending property taxes, they're unethical, they're immoral. You
can never own your home in the state of Texas.
That's ridiculous. So we should do big things. Cut property
taxes in half day and put us on a path
to get rid of all property taxes within a few years.
(02:04):
That's something we could absolutely do. Let's stop weaponizing Texans
tax pay your money against them and against their values
and against children. We should cut all funding to any
state agencies in the universities that are still doing DEI
and transgender and doctrination. I mean, very few Texans approved,
maybe almost none, just about of their tax dollars being
(02:26):
spent to indoctrinate the next generation and transgender and doctrination,
where we're sending billions of dollars to liberal Hollywood. Cut
that madness off, send it back to Texans. Let Texas
truly be free, get us rid of property tax I'll
tell you what, if he did those kinds of things
and cut spending, his approval numbers wouldn't be in the tank,
(02:46):
and he'd be the most popular governor, and not just Republican,
he probably the most popular governor of all the fifty
states and Texans. I just want Texas to be the
number one state for liberty, and we're far from it.
And look at look at Florida. Florida used to be
a parreally purple state. It was always a swing state,
you know, in the presidential license. Who's gonna win the
White House all depends on Florida, but not anymore. Florida
(03:09):
solidly in the red column. And I'll tell you why
that's happening, because of bold, real Republican leadership, and quite frankly,
we just haven't had that from the elected leadership in
the state of Texas for aqut too many years.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, you beat me to it, Representative Harrison, because I
was going to bring up Rondo Santis, who is probably
the best and most popular governor, and he is also
for ending property taxes. He's one of the ones who's
saying it is ridiculous to think that people who have
paid their mortgages off have to then lease their homes
from the government or else be kicked out if you
don't make the payments. But the question he and several
other states a handful of them anyway, that are talking
(03:43):
about eliminating property taxes, the question is how do you
replace the revenue generated by it? Any idea in Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, absolutely, I mean there's two pieces to that question.
And number one, you can't really cut tech. And this
is why the Texas the Liberal Austin you know party
is never willing to cut taxes because you know what
they're never willing to do, which you really do have
to do. They're not willing to cut spending the Texas budget.
Not only are we not cutting spending.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know, I'm old.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'm not that old, I'm forty three, but I'm old
enough to remember when Texas Republicans wanted to cut spending
and cut taxes, and they know they go handing love
and the Texas legislature. Not only are we not cutting spending,
this latest liberal train wreck of a budget exploded state spending.
Get this, a staggering forty two percent from just two
(04:29):
budget cycles ago. So number one, we got to cut spending,
and that's super easy. I filed legislation to cut ninety
nine zero, ninety billion dollars worth of leftist woke, wasteful
nonsense and the budget that could have cut people's property
taxes almost in half immediately and would have cost nobody
any additional revenue just from cutting the waste and the
(04:51):
leftist nonsense in our government. So that's number one. Cut spending,
make us actually a small government state. And if for
whatever you do have to make up, we could easily
tweak our consumption tax laws broaden the base. I don't
even think the sales tax rate would have to go
up very much. And think about what would happen to prices.
Two people say, well, sales tax go up, maybe prices
(05:13):
go up. I don't even think so, because one of
the biggest drivers of price inflation the costs that every
small business brick and mortar mod pods store shop in Texas.
One of their biggest costs is the crushing sales tax
bill that the government and post forces on them that
they don't have a choice but to pass through to
the customers or to their renters or whatever. So this
(05:35):
is absolutely doable, and by the way, it's not even theoretical.
Over at least three Texas cities have already, even without
changes to our laws, gotten rid of property taxes on
their own. The bottom line is, the state of Texas
could eliminate property taxes. We could for sure cut them
almost in half.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well immediately, I apologize for cutting up, but I'm out
of time here. I hope Governor Rabbit is listening to
these kind of common sense ideas and maybe those poll
numbers will be going in the other direction. But Representative
Brian Harrison, thank you, so much for the time. We
appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's always great to be with y'all. God bless y'all,
God bless Texas
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And you as well.
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