Texas House Finance Plan Uplifts Sales Tax and Adds Payroll Levy
The Texas House education funding proposal would raise the state sales tax to 6.50 percent from 6.25, broaden its base to gain about $1 billion in revenue, eliminate the franchise tax, and add a 1 percent payroll tax on businesses. It also includes a $1 per pack cigarette tax, state taxed video gambling at tracks, and a $1 amusement ticket surcharge for movies and other amusements.
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Austin
House
Associated Press
Texas House tax plan targets school funding overhaul
A Texas House committee proposed options to change education finance with new taxes and broadened sales tax. The plan includes a statewide property tax, expanded services tax, vehicle and boat taxes, higher cigarette and smokeless tobacco taxes, video gambling, theater surcharges, a technology fund, and a 1 percent payroll tax. Craddick said the effort aims to move bills. Perry and Dewhurst offered cautious responses about property tax relief and school funding equity.
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Craddick
Rick Perry
David Dewhurst
Senate
House
Family of woman who took Pondimin awarded over 1 billion
A Jefferson County jury awarded the family of Cynthia Cappel-Coffey more than 1 billion dollars. She died at 42 after five months on Pondimin in 1997 and a 2002 PPH diagnosis. Wyeth defends adequate warnings and plans to appeal.
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Beaumont
Jefferson County
Cynthia Cappel-Coffey
Cappel-Coffey
Houston
John O’quinn
Wyeth
Food and Drug Administration
Ms. Cappel-Coffey
Pondimin
Wyeth Attor
Ney
Bill Sims
Fourth Halliburton worker’s body found after Iraqi convoy attack
Houston report says Tony Johnson, 47, of Riverside California, is the fourth body recovered from the April 9 assault on a Halliburton KBR convoy west of Baghdad. Seven Halliburton/KBR employees were missing after the attack. three of the recovered victims are identified as Stephen Hulett, Jack Montague, and Jeffery Parker. One more employee and a soldier, Keith Maupin, remain unaccounted for.
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Houston
Iraq
Halliburton Co
Tony Johnson
Riverside
Calif
Halliburton
Johnson
Halliburton Sub
Sidiary Kbr
Kellogg, Brown & Root
Baghdad
Company
Wendy Hail
Stephen Hulett
Manistee
Mich
Jack Montague
Pittsburg
Ill
Jeffery Parker
Lake Charles
Thomas Hamill
Macon
Miss
Pfe
Keith M. Maupin
SA judge charged with child indecency
Forrest Elmo Stewart a 77 year old administrative law judge in San Antonio faces a felony indecency with a child by sexual contact charge. He was arrested in a Victoria hotel on a $100000 bond after allegedly paying a 16 year old girl for sex in multiple locations. The case stems from an incident last year when he was found returning from Mexico with three underage girls.
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San Antonio
Mexico
Forrest Elmo Stewart
Victoria
Stewart
Bexar County
Freer
Duval County
San Antonio Express-News
Associated Press
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