This is not about the people who live in apartments,
they are hard working individuals who deserve a safe
clean place to live and raise their children.
It is about the fact that apartment units
pay pennies and sometimes nothing to
support the local services they require.
Those local services are education, law enforcement,
Emergency Medical Services, and the local hospitals.
Look at the number of public housing apartments
in just Houston, 4,000 units plus 1,600 tax-credit units.
Public Housing units pay no property taxes.
The neighboring private property owner
pays the taxes for every apartment unit.
We must pay to support the local services.
Public housing does not pay school taxes,
the private property owners pay for the schools.
We we need lower property taxes combined with
a consumption tax where everyone in that community
pays to support the local public services in the community.
It would be very cheap to collect at the cash register,
it does not require Government employees to collect.
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