{"id":355426,"date":"2026-06-30T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355426\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:24:08","slug":"abbott-campaigns-in-east-texas-discusses-five-point-property-tax-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355426\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott campaigns in East Texas, discusses five-point property tax plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CANTON, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Gov. Greg Abbott campaigned in East Texas on Monday, making a re-election stop at Ochoa\u2019s Cafe in Canton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Supporters packed the restaurant to hear his future plans if he wins re-election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Abbott spoke about issues including the border wall and data centers, but focused largely on what he called a five-point property tax relief plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cNone of you, nor anyone else in the state of Texas has come up to me and said, \u2018Hey Governor, I am perfectly happy with my property tax bill,\u2019 because you\u2019re not,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cYour property taxes should never go up without you having a say in the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Elements of the five-point plan include:<\/p>\n<p>Require local spending limits. Require two-thirds voter approval for tax increases.Allow petitions to force a rollback election to lower rates. Create appraisal predictability and cap appraisal growth. Eliminate school district property taxes on homeowners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event drew mostly positive reactions from attendees, though a small group protested outside over A.I. data centers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Abbott is scheduled to make another East Texas campaign stop Tuesday in Bullard.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANTON, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Gov. Greg Abbott campaigned in East Texas on Monday, making a re-election stop at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-355426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}