You have to read this blog post at Public Citizen.
Corporate welfare for oil and gas or fully funded schools?
Texas oil and gas officials will plead with House Appropriations Committee members next week that the industry needs its $1.2 billion annual tax break, more than children need fully funded schools or the elderly need nursing homes to stay open.
Go read it. You’ll be smoking mad.
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Insult to injury. They're so good at that.
Maybe if you give the gas drillers permission to drill near fully funded schools they could work out a deal…. oh wait they get to do that anyway.
One industry vs. future of all Texans. Wow, what a choice. "Who paid my way into office, it wasn't the school kids? Then screw 'em"