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Ashley Bean Thornton for Texas House District 56

Never will we ever - Props 2, 6, & 8

(Early Voting for the November 4 election starts Monday (October 20,2025). This will be our opportunity to vote on 17 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. That’s a lot of propositions!

 I am working through the list a few at a time and sharing how I plan to vote. 

Here are links to the ones I have done so far: 

 

You are not allowed to take your phone with you into the polls, but you are allowed to take a piece of paper with notes.  For what it’s worth, here’s a printable version of what I have figured out so far. I will update it every time I post till it is finished.: Propositions and How ABT is voting. Thank you! – ABT)

 

How I Plan to vote and why:

Three of the 17 propositions we will see on the ballot on November 4 have to do with restricting us from ever imposing certain kinds of taxes in the future.  I call these three the “Never will we ever…” propositions.

Never will we ever…

  • Impose taxes on the “realized or unrealized capital gains of an individual, family, estate, or trust.” (Prop 2)

  • Impose taxes on “an occupation tax on certain entities that enter into transactions conveying securities or imposing a tax on certain securities transactions.” (Prop 6)

  • Impose “death taxes applicable to a decedent’s property or the transfer of an estate, inheritance, legacy, succession, or gift.” (Prop 8)

I’ll be voting NO on all three of these propositions.

I thought about going into a long explanation of each of these different kinds of taxes, the pros and cons, who they would affect and not affect.  In the end I decided not to do that because all that is beside the point.

We don’t have these taxes now, and I don’t see any reason to promise “never will we ever” have them in the future.  That just seems dumb.  We don’t know what the future will bring and what taxes we might need. We don’t even know what we are really promising until we see a bill.

 If someone in the future proposes an actual bill to implement one of these kinds of taxes in the future, we can vote on that then.  Till then – these “never will we ever” promises are a NO for me.

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