Prop Q Austin tax rate hike: Christmas came early thanks to a guy named Nate. Now even the proverbial hogs at the Austin trough are against it!

Nathan McGuire of Austin, Texas

So this techie guy in Austin by the name of Nate McGuire, puts up this website, at the unceremonious URL, austintaxrateelection.com. The site explains in common and nonpartisan language the Prop Q Austin tax rate hike of 20%, and how it flies in the face of the the proponents that they "love Austin."

Check out this mailer that's been hitting Austin households from the Travis County Democratic Party. All 11 members of the Austin City Council are Democrats. All but one are pushing Prop Q. The mailer claims the reason Austin needs to do this is due to federal cutbacks by Trump and Abbott's actions.

This Vote Yes flier even uses the wrong color -- red -- that's a Vote No. How much did they pay for this? Hopefully not as much as the $1M+ logo fiasco!

We love how former City Councilman and longtime journalist, Daryl Slusher, gets after the Trump and Abbott claims in his article in his online Austin Independent article, "Silence of the Shams."

Prop Q is so bad, even the proverbial hogs at the Austin city trough in the Austin Chamber of Commerce and Real Estate Council are coming out against Prop Q! See HERE.

Then, be sure to read this page with the statement to vote No on Prop Q by the Austin Neighborhoods Council parked on Nathan's site. We took special note of this paragraph from ANC:

"The ANC Executive Committee fully supports public spending that directly serves citizens' vital interests—responsible governance demands no less. However, City Hall must own up to its choices on other massive expenditures entirely left out of this proposition. Why is the city pouring $1.6 billion* into a vastly expanded convention center? Why has it committed $104 million to the I-35 Cap and Stitch project this year? City leaders are also pushing other nonessential projects ahead while they leave essential needs underfunded."

*LIV Note: The $1.6B in ANC's statement for the convention center does not include the 30 years of debt service and more that bring the costs up to a whopping $5.6B. See this release issued by Austin United PAC last week when they filed 25,000 signatures for a public vote on a convention center counter-proposal in May. See release HERE.

Thanks to McGuire for doing our homework. Use it or lose it, Austin!

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Note! Now the business lobby comes out to question Prop Q. See this Austin Business Journal article HERE.