February 23, 2015      5:42 PM
Updated: Texas House leaders say tax cuts could top $4 billion
“We really believe that we ought to be able to do more than $4 billion in tax cuts here in the House,” Bonnen said. “We don’t have a number at this point. We just know that we can do better than that.”
Peggy Fikac at the Express-News gets
the interview with House Ways and Means Chairman Dennis Bonnen
in which he said “we can do better” than the Texas Senate’s proposed
tax cuts.
Just
after 7pm, the House Republican Caucus issued the following statement:
“The
Texas House made it very clear from the start of this session that major tax
relief will be a cornerstone of the state budget. Today the statements by
Chairman Dennis Bonnen and Speaker Joe Straus echo
the commitment that Republicans have made to return a sizeable portion of our
unappropriated revenue to its rightful owners, the taxpayers of this
state. The Texas Model is built upon the
principle that tax relief and fiscally responsible spending plans will generate
economic prosperity, and Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives are
fully committed to this vision.”
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