as someone who is sympathetic to certain tenets of socialism that seek to provide some opportunity equity across our widely varying socioeconomic gradients - particularly in a state like texas, the concept behind recapture has never bothered me and seemed like it could work. but man, the state of texas has demonstrated with utter incompetence how badly they can fuck it up by not forcing that money into an al gore-esque lockbox for education purposes exclusively and instead let our dumbfuck state government redirect it to their own political purposes like performative border theater, as well as allowing local administrations like frisco and prosper to game their tax rates so as to not be required to contribute. unfuckingbelievable.
i have been an eanes isd taxpayer for more about 15 years and I am fine with helping subsidize poor districts. i went to a poor ass district in east texas. but fuck this state's government for their gameplaying horseshit. absconding with the funds is absurd, as is the fact that the fuckface suburban pieces of shit that comprise frisco isd and their 2,000 high schools paid $8 million in last year while i, and my single high school, paid in $121 million and austin paid in $875 million for abbott, patrick, and the rest of the dipshit brigade to loot while shitting on us repeatedly to their idiotic constituency.
also lol at pecos-barstow-toyah and its 677 person high school being the second biggest contributor behind austin isd. thanks for the boost in o&g royalty values, russia.