A Texas Invoice Would Supply Big Tax Breaks to Straight {Couples} Who Have 10—10!—Children

Dwelling in Texas? Need to pay nothing in property taxes? If a not too long ago proposed invoice passes, you possibly can! As long as you’re straight, married, and haven’t seven, not eight, not 9, however, sure, 10 children. Double digits solely, folks! And no gays or heathen divorcées!

That’s proper: HB No. 2889, launched by Republican consultant Bryan Slaton, would slash property taxes to nothing for opposite-sex married {couples} with 10 youngsters. Straight married {couples} with fewer than 10 youngsters would additionally obtain a break on property taxes, however simply not as a lot. Assume three children must be sufficient to qualify? Assume once more! The brink at which a pair would save a bit of additional come tax time begins at 4, which provides you a 40% minimize. 5 will get you 50%, and so forth and so forth.

Questioning whether or not you’d qualify in case you had been married as soon as, received divorced, after which remarried and had between 4 and 10 children along with your new partner? You wouldn’t! Per the textual content of the invoice, a “‘qualifying married couple’ means a person and a lady who’re legally married to one another, neither of whom have ever been divorced.” As for a “qualifying baby,” if organic, the kid must be born after the couple married; if adopted, the couple must marry earlier than the kid was adopted.

“With this invoice, Texas will begin saying to {couples}, ‘Get married, keep married, and be fruitful and multiply,’” Slaton, who we assume thinks The Handmaid’s Story is one thing to aspire to, stated in a press release.

In different Texas information…

It’s apparently a punishable offense to help homosexual marriage and gun management laws. Per The Hill:

The Republican Social gathering of Texas is ready to vote this weekend on whether or not to censure Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) over complaints that Gonzales has did not uphold social gathering values in Congress by voting with Democrats on points like same-sex marriage and gun management. The anticipated state social gathering vote would observe a censure decision authorised earlier this month by the Medina County Republicans in south-central Texas that accuses Gonzales of appearing in methods which might be antithetical to the social gathering’s worth system.

Gonzales voted final 12 months in favor of the Respect for Marriage Act, which enshrined the precise of same-sex and interracial {couples} to marry. (Final 12 months, the Texas Republican social gathering adopted a platform that describes homosexuality has an “irregular life-style alternative,” and says that LGBTQ+ folks mustn’t obtain authorized protections from discrimination.) In one other obvious act of treason, Gonzales additionally voted for gun management laws that was launched within the wake of the varsity capturing in Uvalde, Texas, which is in his district.

In the meantime, at CPAC

The message from Republicans is that Democrats are going to go to jail for causes they will’t disclose presently.