Judge Wolff and son face off on Pre-K sales tax increase

Cut the fat. We can start by getting rid of Castro and Wolf.

Stop raising my taxes! Do they not get it? We have been taxed enough! They keep coming back for more. They are like a girlfriend that doesn't know what a credit limit is. Leave my wallet ALONE! I have been taxed so much I do not have anything left. Property taxes this year $4200. My father's house in another state, worth twice as much and he pays $1200 in property taxes. Stop going back to the well to get more money. We have the third highest property taxes in the country. Do you not get it?!

Only thing Id like to know is why does Wolf alway have his f@#$%*! nose in everything all the time????? He's not the mayor he's not on city counsel and no other Judges have their nose in everything like him. I guess if you always have your nose in everything they'll name baseball stadium after you.

This really torques my jaws, too! I live in Terrell Hills, and I won’t even get to vote on this boondoggle that Nelson is proposing, but I sure will have to pay that tax! I paid for my child’s Pre-K and don’t think the city should be funding education at all. It should be up to each school district to implement or not, and in absolutely NO WAY should the city be doing this. Furthermore, who is going to administer the revenue from this sales tax increase? It’s like the state’s general fund, where lotto earnings were supposed to go to education, but rather got sucked into the abyss. Kevin Wolff has more sense than his old man, I think.

Yes, Nelson is tax-happy. They should instead stop farting money off on things like the east side mansion and street cars.

Nelson Wolff never met a tax increase he didn't like.

With the legislature set to convene in January public education will be a top priority, so the question one must ask is this: How will the funding of the City of San Antonio be treated in the overall picture as viewed from Austin? Will the local districts lose money a la "Robin Hood" funding, or will the legislature solve the school funding problem by demanding statewide sales tax increases? A very dangerous precedent; a new tax without a corresponding decrease in other tax streams can only mean a tax increase that can be set by not one but at least two taxing authorities, with the possibility that local school districts may be slipped into the act so that three taxing authorities may take up this new revenue stream.

catholic dad: Sorry, the state funded gambling operation was supposed to go to the schools, but the money is put into the State General Fund and not assigned to any specific spending program. It has been used to buffer the debt in this state and is not generally available to any school districts.

Nelson Wolff Sr. is wrong, again, as usual. He thinks he is a demi-god here in this town, that what he says goes, and he is not. He is just a public servant. Furthermore, he was a County Judge, not a City Judge. He has no influence on the city on that basis alone. His views are usually a far shade off from reality. Raising sales taxes to pay for Pre-K? Times are bad enough for everyone, just who does he think can afford any new tax? The school districts here should be the ones to pay for any Pre-K programs and they should be the ones to raise their taxes to do so, not the city. The city has no role in schools or school districts and Wolff has no place in City Governance.

Castro is a liberal idiot....period. The mayor has two assistants in his office, add their salaries together and it's a whopping $270,000 a year. Don't believe me. *** http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee-salaries/san-antonio/titles/assistant-to-mayor/5081/ *** Our city is out of control and has the money but abuses it at our expense.