Proposed Texas bill would only give heterosexual families huge tax cut

Texas lawmakers meet in the capitol building in Austin, Texas.

Texas lawmakers meet in the capitol building in Austin, Texas.

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A Texas state GOP representative is pulling from the ultra-nationalist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to promote his proposed bill that explicitly excludes LGTBQ+ families from massive tax cuts. Rep. Bryan Slaton, the same man who pushed an anti-drag bill, tweeted about his new proposed bill this week that would give tax cuts to heterosexual, married families that have kids. 

The bill, HB 2889, would provide a 10% property tax cut to a “qualifying married couple” with one child. The “qualifying married couple” is defined in the bill as marriage between a man and a woman, immediately shunning LGTBQ+ families, single parents, and families with kids that are not married.

The property tax cuts jump drastically to 40% to heterosexual families with four kids and all the way up to 100% for families with 10 or more children. Slaton tweeted that the bill will promote men and women to “get married, stay married, and be fruitful and multiply.” 

“Families are the building blocks of society” Slaton says in a press release from his office. “We must support families by making it easier for them to have and raise kids.”

He points to claims that a falling birthrate in the U.S. is a “potentially significant problem” but doesn’t provide a source for this claim. Slaton does say the bill draws inspiration from a similar policy in Hungary, the country led by Prime Minister Orban. The Hungarian prime minister said in a July 2022 speech that the country did not want to join a “mixed-race world.” 

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