ABC News: Fact Check: Did Rick Perry Double Texans’ Taxes?

[Patricia M. McBride]

In the event you don't want to read the whole article, the answer to the question is:  No, Ron Paul's taxes did not double but his home value did ........  perhaps that was what he meant to say??  Who knows, but his actual taxes wehnt up by 23% last year on a home that has increased in value from $150,000 to $300,000.  The property taxes in Texas have gone up about 29% in the last decade.

 

Sep 14, 2011 11:36am

The Republican presidential debate started to look more like a Texas showdown Monday night when Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, accused his governor and fellow GOP candidate Rick Perry of doubling his taxes.

“I’m a taxpayer there. My taxes have gone up. Our taxes have doubled since he’s been in office,” Paul said in response to the question about whether Perry should get credit for Texas’ job growth. ”So I would put a little damper on this but I don’t want to offend the governor because he might raise my taxes or something.”

But while Paul’s taxes have gone up in the decade Perry has been governor, the increase seems to have resulted more from the rising value of his house than policies handed down from the State House.

Paul paid $1,884.42 in county and local taxes in 2000, the year Perry was first elected governor, according to the Brazoria County Tax Office. Texas does not have a state income tax. He paid $2,440.37 last year, about 23 percent more. The value of Paul’s house, which affects how much property tax he pays, rose from $150,000 to about $300,000 during the same 10-year.

Even on the revenue side, Texas’ taxes did not double. The Lone Star state collected about $10 billion more in 2010 than it did a decade ago, an increase of about 29 percent.

 

read more here:  http://patdollard.com/2011/09/white-house-scrambles-to-eclipse-gop%...