AUSTIN — Nearly 2,000 people went to Gov. Rick Perry’s website in January to sound off on how lawmakers should cut taxes by $1.8 billion. Many won’t get what they wanted.
The state sales tax rate isn’t budging. Another sales tax holiday isn’t in the works. Nor is the Texas Legislature raising homestead property exemptions by $10,000, which prevailed as most popular of nearly a dozen tax-cutting options the governor suggested in an online survey when this 140-day session started.