Bullock warns against additional state sale tax
Comptroller Bob Bullock urges Texas to resist new or higher city and county sales taxes. He argues a broader tax base risks a future income tax, regressive burden on low earners, and hurts Texas competitiveness. He cites Louisiana as a contrast and warns against treating the sales tax as an easy fix.
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Bullock
Mike Kingston
Dallas Morning News
Kingston
Comptroller’s Office
Bob Bullock
Public Accounts
Letter From Huntsville Convict Reflects On Change And Hope
A Stamford reader prints a convict’s letter from Huntsville, expressing feelings of waste, time, and personal rehabilitation. The writer reflects on the desire to reform, the doubt about parole, and the hope for release due to inner change rather than external proof. John P. Gray Jr signs the note from Wynne Unit, Huntsville.
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Mary Burdett
Stamford
Huntsville
John P. Gray Jr
Wynne Unit
Texas
County bond sales below state level
August sales of Series E and H United States Savings Bonds in Jones County totaled 22,963 with eight month total 104,373 and 29 percent of the 1979 sales goal of 360,000 County Bond Chairman A C Humphrey reported. Texas monthly sales reached 21,233,340 and eight month 180,587,312 about 61 percent of the yearly goal 297.2 million. An unrelated note mentions a method used by an American Indian to kill a tree by stripping bark to allow it to die and sun exposure to end leaves blocking light.
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Louisiana
Texas
E & H United States Savings
Jones County
A. C Humphrey
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