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March 24, 2015      5:41 PM

On eve of tax cut debate in Senate, Republican senator calls big business opposition troubling

Schwertner says “If you’ll forgive me, it doesn’t seem as though you’re concerned with the state of Texas providing tax relief per se, just in providing tax relief that doesn’t directly benefit big business.”

On the evening before the Texas Senate is expected to debate $4.5 billion in business and property tax cuts, Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, issued a stern rebuke to big business interests opposed to this high priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

“If you’ll forgive me, it doesn’t seem as though you’re concerned with the state of Texas providing tax relief per se, just in providing tax relief that doesn’t directly benefit big business,” Sen. Schwertner wrote in a letter to the Texas Association of Business and others.

By Scott Braddock