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bluto

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  1. With our hitting vs lefties I don’t like the matchup vs tamu, assuming both finish their work.
  2. Goddam you never disappoint with your stupid fucking takes. True talent on display
  3. Lacey needs to be in the over 40 thread fa sho
  4. What’s a reasonable price range for door replacement on two 8x7? Don’t need insulated or anything fancy, just thinking single ply metal. Motors are fine. Just looking for ballpark so I know when to laugh at a quote
  5. Indeed on the best format…. you’re allowed a mulligan one game per weekend, best performers during the season get rewarded, literally every team has a fair chance but every team has to earn the hardware
  6. That’s my read as well, just throwing the kitchen sink at it short sightedly for a headline. The current house bill expires entirely in 2025, no way in hell the purse strings will be as loose then.
  7. How did they not put trumps face on The Old Man
  8. Tx Constitution technically requires cads value property at 100% of market value. The cads are then graded by the state every other year roughly to see how their values stack up to recent transactions and appraisals, along with the state conducting their own appraisals as testing basis. If the county is below the mark regularly then big shit happens.
  9. What I can’t figure out is what happens when the surplus isn’t available, the special house bill expires in 2025 so do rates just jump back up? There’s no way the state will have this level of surplus again. And if there’s one thing the red state lege hates more than minorities voting (maybe didn’t need that verb) it’s funding education from their coffers.
  10. House proposed a bill with only monster cuts to school tax rate at abbotts order, senate offered less rate cut but included a homestead exemption bump. Phelan just ruled that since senate bills included HS exemption bump and Abbott didn’t approve that being discussed then house won’t even listen to senate bills. The shit show drags on
  11. Indeed. In talking with some of these investment shops there was the attitude “even if the risk free rate doubles this yr then we’ll be ok, and it’s never doubled in a single year in 30+ years so history was on our side” …. Well it more like went up 5x or whatever. So these speculative dipshits totally ignored the fact rates were at all time historical lows, only paying mind to historical rate growth.
  12. Special sesh 1 is under way as of 9pm. Prop tax and border security first up. Abbott appears to have hamstrung the ptax talks to rate compression only, not even homestead bumps or caps.
  13. Property tax is all but special session bound. House wants appraisal caps on everything, senate says no caps, and Abbott is rumored to request only rate compression to be heard in special.
  14. Is there anything to house members gunning for senate members ahead of primary trying to move up?
  15. I recall having beers with a world class cap employee and to say he was totally sketched out by the internal ops would be an understatement. Paul and a family member or two had the entire top penthouse unit to themselves essentially behind 2 sets of key card doors while the actual operation was crowded into a floor below. They talked about how Paul had his sister or cousin in NYC calling shots despite having virtually zero real estate experience. Basically he made it sound exactly as it now sounds but this was 10 yrs ago.
  16. House adjourns til 11am. No deal tonight
  17. Both chambers at ease as they hash out the ptax bill. I’m guessing house sent a f you proposal to senate and gonna force their hand on declining
  18. Dutton really is regarded, perfect encapsulation of Tx Democrat.
  19. All us assholes cheering for this now have a son of Wilco as ag, congrats! https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/about-office/ken-paxtons-leadership-team
  20. When will senate hear and vote?
  21. Sit down already Dutton, just droning on
  22. Ok old man, wrap it up
  23. Similar to gun control debates the ‘prosecutor’ just called Paxton the top law enforcement official in the state, so their entire case is ‘moo’
  24. Block is cornier than Garth “Mr Yearwood” Brooks with his false modesty bullsh.
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