November 8, 2005 Election: "Tax Wolves in sheep's clothing". Early voting begins October 24th.

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article on "Blank Check/TTC" Prop 1

In 2001 a proposition was placed as a referendum to voters that developed the Texas Mobility Fund. Texans voted for "mobility" and Prop 15 became a constitutional amendment. Only later we found it was the first "Tax Wolf in sheep's clothing". The ballot language of Proposition 15 did not openly and accurately inform voters that the Perry-motivated special-interest plan would allow Perry's TxDOT to toll our public highways and push the Trans Texas Corridor forward.

Perry's Prop 15 took accountability and the will of the public out of the equation - so special interests could seize OUR LAND and OUR ROADS.

2005: PROPOSITION 1
And, here comes the "Tax Wolf" rearing its ugly head again with the Proposition 1 rail fund. It's a similarly smoke-screen voter trick as was Prop 15, except this time it's after more of our tax dollars by subsidizing private corporations rail. Proposition 1 is an open-ended corporate subsidy scheme --- a blank check. Taxpayers will pay unlimited tax dollars to move private corporation rail lines into Gov. Perry's Trans Texas Corridor, and this after the governor had promised Texans that no public funds would be used.

And, it gets worse. Our state DEBT commitment also will be open-ended, like a credit card with no ceiling, for state bonds that may be issued from this new fund. In a veiled power-play and further by amending the Constitution to authorize the creation of this fund, the state is committing its taxpayers to massive debt for generations.

Unaccountable, unelected people decide how the taxpayer based rail fund is spent, as corporations profit. The new bloated bureaucracy is empowered with our unlimited tax dollars and debt to move forward with the largest land grab in Texas history --- Perry's unpopular Trans Texas Corridor. The Corridor is in direct opposition to the platform of the Republican Party of Texas.

2005: PROPOSITION 9
Proposition 9 allows non-elected, unaccountable Tolling Authority board members extended term limits. Under the proposal, current 2-year term limits would expand to 6 years for appointed members of Perry's Regional Mobility Authorities (RMAs). These new and powerful special interest bureaucracies will have the authority to privatize and toll our public highways, and without urgently needed accountability, they will set the toll rates for roads we've already paid for with tax dollars!

Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn put out a comprehensive scathing report that shows how RMA's create "double taxation without accountability". Strayhorn also found conflicts of interest, favoritism and self-profiteering as board members gave NO BID contracts to their friends and their own companies. Gov. Perry's RMA boards should be required to abide by the standard provided in the Constitution that limits the terms of members of such boards to two years.

The open-ended language of Props 1 and 9 appears to adhere to an integrity standard, but of course they don't mention the Trans Texas Corridor, the land grab, unlimited taxes, unlimited debt, lack of accountability and double-tax issues.

We must STOP the "Tax Wolf" at the next election starting with early voting on October 14th and on election day, November 8th. Say NO to Prop 1 & 9. Call our TexasTollParty.com office at 512.371.9926 to work with us to stop the Tax Wolf.

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