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.
Supporting Texas means supporting Texas families. Families are the building blocks of society. We must support families by making it easier for them to have and raise kids
— Bryan Slaton (@BryanforHD2) February 28, 2023
With HB 2889, Texas will start saying: "Get married, stay married, and be fruitful and multiply." #txlege pic.twitter.com/FAJOpcz3yP
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."