Podcast Episode

A $29.2 billion question about Texas property taxes

Politics with the Big Dogs Podcast··22 September 2026·54 min

About this episode

Texas lawmakers have spent years raising homestead exemptions and compressing school tax rates. Texans still want an answer to the simplest question in the debate: Why does the bill keep going up?In this week’s episode of Politics with the Big Dogs, Anthony Holm traces the modern history of Texas property-tax relief and examines the choice taking shape between Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.