As legislators prepare to go into special session to debate the Perry/Sharp plan to shift the tax burden away from high property taxes and Robin Hood to a 1% tax on businessess, the Dallas Morning News continues to push editorially for higher taxes and less property tax relief.  It has a front page editorial in its Points section pushing its agenda of a higher tax for businesses and less property tax relief.  Bill McKenzie, an editorial writer at the News, has been pushing hard for higher taxes on businesses and less property tax relief.  From this observer's perspective, that is a real way to kill any possibility of getting something done this special session.  Maybe, that's why the title of the story on school finance on the front page of the News Sunday is "All uphill on school finance." 

My own sense in talking with those involved in the process is that John Sharp has done a masterful job of crafting a plan that is acceptable to a broad range of interests affected and that the Perry/Sharp plan stands a good change of passage.  We will soon see if this latest approach proves acceptable to a majority of the Texas legislators.

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