Smoke & Mirrors and Condoms & Cucumbers

KXYL's James Williamson keeps his audience busy thinking about condoms and cucumbers so they don't focus on issues like this:

79th LEGISLATURE
Study finds poor Texans would bear brunt of tax changes
By Mike Ward, W. Gardner Selby
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
As House members publicly fought Tuesday over how to fund and manage schools, cracks began showing in efforts by Republican leaders to enact a multibillion-dollar tax plan to pay for proposed cuts in property taxes.
Fueling the growing dissent over the tax bill was a new state study that showed that the tax burden would increase for households earning $100,000 a year or less, even after taking into account proposed property tax cuts approved this week by a House committee.

for the entire story please visit:
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/tx/legislature/stories/03/9TAXFIGHT.html