If you paid for your home, you should own it. Permanent property taxes turn ownership into government rent. Taxpayer money is not the Legislature’s to give — it belongs to the People. I fully support the elimination of owner-occupied homestead taxes, and I am steadfastly against the Legislature gatekeeping the People from voting to amend the Texas Constitution in order to remove those taxes.

End ad valorem property taxes on owner-occupied homesteads. In plain terms: Texans should not be permanently taxed on the home they live in just to keep government spending growing.

No. This reform focuses on owner-occupied homesteads. Other property classifications are addressed separately under existing...