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  • cbeard

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    Vote "NO"

    This will divert funds from sporting goods away from Texas Parks and Wildlife to other agencies such as Texas Historical Commission, Texas Department of Natural Resources (Texas version of the EPA)


    "The constitutional amendment dedicating the revenue received from the existing state sales and use taxes that are imposed on sporting goods to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Historical Commission to protect Texas’ natural areas, water quality, and history by acquiring, managing, and improving state and local parks and historic sites while not increasing the rate of the state sales and use taxes."
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    DyeF9

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    Vote "NO"

    This will divert funds from sporting goods away from Texas Parks and Wildlife to other agencies such as Texas Historical Commission, Texas Department of Natural Resources (Texas version of the EPA)


    "The constitutional amendment dedicating the revenue received from the existing state sales and use taxes that are imposed on sporting goods to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Historical Commission to protect Texas’ natural areas, water quality, and history by acquiring, managing, and improving state and local parks and historic sites while not increasing the rate of the state sales and use taxes."
    Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but wouldn't have proposition 5 go through close the ability for the state to divert portions or the tax to other things and require all sales tax from sporting goods be attributed to Texas Parks and Wildlife department and Texas Historical Commission?

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    satx78247

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    Vote "NO"

    This will divert funds from sporting goods away from Texas Parks and Wildlife to other agencies such as Texas Historical Commission, Texas Department of Natural Resources (Texas version of the EPA)


    "The constitutional amendment dedicating the revenue received from the existing state sales and use taxes that are imposed on sporting goods to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Historical Commission to protect Texas’ natural areas, water quality, and history by acquiring, managing, and improving state and local parks and historic sites while not increasing the rate of the state sales and use taxes."

    cbeard,

    WRONG ANSWER. - What Proposition 5 would do IF NOT PASSED is allow the unelected bureaucrats to continue to spend the sales tax revenues that are for TPWD on things (like renting "take home cars" for state employees, redecorating offices, buying/leasing more office furniture & doing unfunded & often worthless "special interests" projects that we do NOT need to do at all) that have NOTHING at all to do with state parks, wildlife, etc.

    Vote YES on Proposition 5.

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    DyeF9

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    I see it as an opportunity for the state to take your surface and ground water and use it wherever. Eventually the ground water will be sucked out from under us and sold to poorly planned communities. Water is water and a combination of big business and corrupt legislators can twist any law they way they want it.
    They can do that whether you vote Yes or no, makes no difference. This is about funding for maintaining historical sites and Parks and such

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    majormadmax

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    Vote "NO"

    This will divert funds from sporting goods away from Texas Parks and Wildlife to other agencies such as Texas Historical Commission, Texas Department of Natural Resources (Texas version of the EPA)

    "The constitutional amendment dedicating the revenue received from the existing state sales and use taxes that are imposed on sporting goods to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Historical Commission to protect Texas’ natural areas, water quality, and history by acquiring, managing, and improving state and local parks and historic sites while not increasing the rate of the state sales and use taxes."

    Ummmm....I'm voting FOR this one!

    You need to better research. In fact, we don't vote 'YES' or 'NO,' but 'FOR' or 'AGAINST!'

    And two posts in four-and-a-half years?!? Sorry if I don't put a lot of credibility in your comments, especially since your first post in March 2018 was about YouTube banning firearm videos (which they never did)...
     

    servis

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    A "For" vote will assure that the funds collected on sporting goods will go to TPWD. It also authorizes congress to spend money any way they see fit with a 2/3's majority vote. They wrote this in such a way as to still be able to ignore the will of their employers.
     

    JCC

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    Some of the propositions are asking if the state can increase their debt(AKA bonds).

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    SA_Steve

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    The Texas constitution has around 500 amendments.

    Any law of any importance is probably unconstitutional, that's why they go in as amendments that supersede any other conflicting amendments.

    Some decades ago Texas had a constitutional convention to clean things up. They quickly abandoned that effort. Too big of a mess.
     
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