Texas has a sporting goods sales tax that’s supposed to benefit state and local parks as well as the Historical Commission. But over the last 25 years, the state has taken a lot of that money to balance the budget. Travis County’s Deece Eckstein says a bill and constitutional amendment has been filed to protect that parks revenue which would trickle down to the county.
He estimates Travis County parks have lost a billion dollars from the state raiding the sporting goods tax.
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