# Sources - S2_abbott EP02

The Math Behind Abbott's $51 Billion Property Tax Cut

> This episode proves that the proposed property tax cut is actually a massive shift of liability to the state budget that removes local decision-making.

3 receipts, 1 with a live URL, 3 VERIFIED.

Paste the URLs below into NotebookLM as sources. Quotes are verbatim from the factbase and are what the episode actually argues from.

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### [VERIFIED] Texas Tribune

**Claim:** Texas has no income tax; cities/counties/schools rely on property tax, so Texans pay among the highest property taxes in the US — Texas Tribune

**Verbatim:** "Texas doesn't levy a statewide property tax. Nonetheless, Texans pay among the highest property taxes in the country, in part because the state doesn't have an income tax"

**URL:** https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/09/greg-abbott-schools-property-tax-cut-election-2026/

*factbase id 11*

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### [VERIFIED] SOURCE

**Claim:** Replacing ALL school property taxes would have cost $39.5B in tax year 2023 (Legislative Budget Board); districts collected $42B in 2024 — Texas Tribune (same URL)

**Verbatim:** "Replacing all school property taxes would have cost the state $39.5 billion in tax year 2023 alone, the Legislative Budget Board... said last year. School districts collected more in 2024 to the tune of $42 billion."

*factbase id 12*

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### [VERIFIED] SOURCE

**Claim:** Texas plans to spend $51B over next two years on school property tax cuts; ~1 of every $6-7 the state spends goes to property tax cuts — Texas Tribune (same URL)

**Verbatim:** "The state already plans to spend $51 billion over the next two years on school property tax cuts... For every six or seven dollars the state will spend in the next two years, one will be spent on cutting property taxes"

*factbase id 13*