Analysis: Property tax relief that doesn’t lower your tax bill

Three years ago, Texas lawmakers were trying to honor a promise to cut property taxes and raise the state’s share of the cost of public education.

They did it — and they didn’t. A new assessment of those 2019 changes — from the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, a business trade group that concentrates on tax and fiscal policy — concludes that property tax increases will slow, but won’t stop.

It’s like having a headache that’s not as bad as the headache you’d have had without their intervention.