"The centerpiece of Johnson’s new legislation is a provision he put in a previous version of HB 247 to convert tax "credits" earned by big oil companies into “lease expenditure deductions.”

... Now if that isn`t the swiftest Texas oil-man- double-talk, and obfuscating I have seen this session!  
 Rep Johnson get`s the prize for pitching THAT misdirecting and meaningless provision.
Translated from Texas oil-lawyer-ese it means the subsidies will continue but with a "different name"?    Rep. Johnson and Rick Perry must have gone to the same school in Texas to think they can sell baloney like that in a discussion of facts and cause and affects of the eternal pitfalls of the poorly vetted, conflicted and cartel-slanted SB21.   All the subsidies need to go away as quickly as possible. We can`t afford the SUBSIDIES.  And we are not cutting more education, health care and public safety, and raiding the earnings of the permanent fund, just to give it away to the slope cartel. Noway.

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