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Published Brownsville Herald October 8, 2006

Last year at this time this column has criticized the partnership of Texas Southmost College and The University of Texas as just a way to get more money to support the University of Texas by taxing one of the poorest parts of Texas twice and was not in favor of additional taxation to support a proposed bond issue. Once, just as the state normally collects taxes and a second time as a property tax. In my own case, the tax collected for Texas Southmost has gone up 50% in two years. The tax rate went up 1/3 from 2004 to 2005 from a rate of $0.128782 per $100 to $0.162772 per $100.00. Then for the 2006 year the rate dropped slightly to $0.161089 per $100, but my home was appraised even higher which still resulted in an additional increase in my tax of about 6%. Read the rest of this entry »