The Deficit Cycle: Harris County's Budget

The Deficit Cycle: Harris County's Budget

We are watching the federal government use our tax dollars for more surveillance, policing, and war despite public outrage. Have you taken a look at how Harris County is using our tax dollars locally? Despite it being a Democratic majority, our local tax dollars primarily go to the cops with little else going to libraries, roads, flood mitigation, infrastructure, or anything else that keeps us safe. Money from all these departments get sucked away into the policing void, and creates a yearly deficit cycle.

Alfredo, a policy organizer with People's Counsel, joins me to recap the county budget. Organizers and community members attended the budget meetings, spoke out, and were there when the commissioners took the vote. Its been about four years since there's been movement around the county's budget. Alfredo and I discuss the movement, myths, and how the budget should be regarded as a moral document for how our government takes care of us.

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