Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo wants you to pay for a pet program so badly, that she’s asking commissioners to approve a tax hike they already rejected.<\/p>\n
Specifically she is looking to raise property taxes to pay for a daycare and preschool subsidy. This is despite the fact that the county has budget issues and commissioners are still working to find basic necessities.<\/p>\n
“We are focused, at least I am, on statutory responsibility,” Precinct Three Republican Tom Ramsey told KTRH. he says now isn’t the time for what amounts to a 64 million dollar tax increase.<\/p>\n
“In order for us to fund our spending, we are going to have to implement the highest tax rate in the history of Harris County,” he added.<\/p>\n
Ramsey pointed to this as another example of Harris county’s spending problem, which he says has to be addressed. <\/p>\n
Commissioners Court meets Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo wants you to pay for a pet program so badly, that she’s asking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-399350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399350","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=399350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}