Meyer Focused on Taxes, Border

In 2023, state Rep. Morgan Meyer, R-University Park, sponsored bills Gov. Greg Abbott credited with bringing “the largest property tax reduction in Texas history.”  

And the chair of the Texas House of Representative’s Ways and Means Committee said he’s not done with that issue.

“It’s your property taxes,” Meyer told residents of the Forum at Park Lane. “It should be given back to you in many different ways of property tax relief.” 

During a Nov. 20 program at the retirement community, the six-term representative for District 108 also outlined his concerns about the border, human trafficking, and education funding.

“Last session alone, we spent over 6.5 billion dollars of Texas money to secure our border,” the lawmaker said, adding he expects that task to get easier when President-Elect Donald Trump returns to office. “We as a state were told by courts that we could not secure our own border. Well, we disregarded them. We said ‘This is the Texas border. It is our right to defend it.’” 

On a related topic, Meyer credited Dallas-based New Friends New Life (NFNL) with opening his eyes to the problem of human trafficking.

“They’re a great group who are now the leading combatants for fighting human trafficking in the state of Texas,” he said. 

Texas sees the second highest amount of trafficking in the nation, according to NFNL, prompting Meyer to prioritize the issue. 

“Because Dallas, unfortunately, is an epicenter for it, and obviously that also ties to our border,” Meyer said.

Education will be another major focus in the next Legislature.

“Funding public education is something I hear about from Dallas Independent School District, Richardson Independent School District, and Highland Park Independent School District,” Meyer said. “Just to make sure we have enough money, quite frankly, for funding and for teaching our kids, but also taking care of our teachers.” 

He suggested lawmakers could cut the STAAR test “while still holding schools accountable.”  

“I know the House and the Senate are looking to get back to the basics and quit trying to teach to a particular test,” Meyer said. “Maybe make sure that, to your point, they can write in cursive, or they can, you know, do simple math or whatever the basics are — comprehend a book.”

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