The Tax Foundation ranked the states according to their property tax burdens per capita, with Texas having the 14th highest property tax burden in the country.
May 2026’s Top 10 Most Expensive School Bonds
Next month, independent school districts (ISDs) will, again, ask voters to approve massive new borrowing schemes that threaten to unleash a wave of tax hikes and bigger bureaucracies. These fiscal excesses appear widespread too. Taxpayers in nearly 60 different counties will decide on one or more of the 109 individual propositions up for a vote this election cycle, according to the Texas Bond Review Board’s (BRB’s) bond election database. If these measures are entirely successful,...