You feel it every single week. Feed prices through the roof. Homeowners insurance up over 40% in two years.
And that property tax bill? It landed like a hay bale on your chest even after all those “historic” exemptions they bragged about in Austin.
Texas now ranks dead last – #1 worst – in property tax burden and homeowners insurance rates in the entire country. Not #2. Not #5. Number one.
That’s not the Texas way, and it sure isn’t what Republicans promised.
While the Austin country-club crowd cuts deals and calls it “compromise,” families are choosing between medicine and meat.
Infrastructure crumbles, flood claims get denied, drought kills pastures, and the tax man still wants his pound of flesh.
As your Agriculture Commissioner, I’m one of the few elected conservative voices standing against the Austin uniparty and actually working to bring costs down for you.
Scale certification, grain warehouse bonds, grocery store weights and measures, and pesticide regulations – every one of those runs through TDA’s Consumer Protection and Weights & Measures divisions.
When TDA is run by a strong conservative who actually understands production agriculture, those costs come down.
When it’s run by an empty suit who’s never pulled a calf or graded a load of cotton, they go up.
I’ve already cut red tape that was driving fertilizer and pesticide costs higher. I’ve fought the Biden EPA rules that jack up your equipment costs. And I’ll keep fighting the appraisal districts that treat ranch land like River Oaks condos.
But none of that continues if the wrong person wins the March GOP primary.
My opponent, beholden to his corporate masters, will rubber-stamp the same uniparty compromises that got us here. I won’t.
Make sure the guy watching your wallet at TDA is the same guy who’s worked a cattle ranch and a cotton field, not some slick corporate suit serving the interests of bankers and hedge funds.
We can have the best conservative governance right here in Texas, but only if we send real fighters back to office – starting with your Agriculture Commissioner.