The $8.2 billion surplus would provide approximately 35 cents in property tax rate cuts for Texans for two years, taking the school property tax rate from $1.50 to $1.15. This could be done without any new taxes.


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I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
HENRY ROLLINS
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real care...
JAMES ROLLINS
I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.
HENRY ROLLINS
I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoi...
HENRY ROLLINS
I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I don't see myself in the ring as a high flyer or brawler or technical guy, but I feel I can do ...
SETH ROLLINS
When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years...
HENRY ROLLINS
Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour ...
HENRY ROLLINS
'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.
HENRY ROLLINS
When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of per...
HENRY ROLLINS
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses t...
SONNY ROLLINS
I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you&#...
HENRY ROLLINS
I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased...
HENRY ROLLINS
With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the pr...
HENRY ROLLINS
We hope to offload a tanker sometime today. We wanted to offload a tanker yesterday afternoon but we...
DALE ROLLINS
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing i...
HENRY ROLLINS
Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite Ameri...
HENRY ROLLINS
When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one...
HENRY ROLLINS
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ec...
HENRY ROLLINS
Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anyth...
KEVIN ROLLINS
If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and n...
HENRY ROLLINS
It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has ...
KEVIN ROLLINS
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I ...
HENRY ROLLINS
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed he...
HENRY ROLLINS
It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.
HENRY ROLLINS
I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing...
HENRY ROLLINS
Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.
HENRY ROLLINS
Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps ...
HENRY ROLLINS
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over ...
SONNY ROLLINS
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicia...
SONNY ROLLINS
I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really bori...
HENRY ROLLINS
What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop e...
KEVIN ROLLINS
25 Years of Bullshit.
HENRY ROLLINS
For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot...
HENRY ROLLINS
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive a...
HENRY ROLLINS
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
HENRY ROLLINS
Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, main...
HENRY ROLLINS
Getting to share the ring with guys I idolized is never going to stop being surreal for me.
SETH ROLLINS
I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
HENRY ROLLINS
I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and ev...
SONNY ROLLINS
I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's ...
HENRY ROLLINS
There were around 64 chairs set up, and they had part of those indoors, but most of them were outsid...
BARBARA ROLLINS
It would be a very big mistake to think John Spencer - no offense to John, who I guess was a decent ...
ED ROLLINS
I joked with my caddie at the turn, told him he was going to see the best 29 on the back nine, ... I...
JOHN ROLLINS