📈 Rather than raise taxes, Houston officials ran an audit and found $120M in savings. If Prop Q is rejected, the #ATXCouncil will have an opportunity to do the same thing and start building back trust with local residents.👍

The Austin Statesman weighs in on Prop Q👇

Austin taxpayers: GO VOTE NO ON PROP Q TODAY! Our city budget is already 30-40% higher per capita than Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Our city budget has a $33M budget deficit for ‘25-‘26 (which is 0.5% of the city budget), and instead of making ANY hard choices, 10/11

Statement from Save Austin Now co-chair Matt Mackowiak: “In May 2021, 90,000 Austin residents voted to reinstate the homeless camping ban by passing Prop B 58%-42%. Days later, the state banned homeless camping statewide. While Save Austin Now remains in active litigation over

NEW: Here's the new digital ad from Save Austin Now explaining HOW MUCH taxpayer money the City of Austin has wasted on homelessness and HOW MUCH more they want to spend on it if Prop Q passes. Watch and share please! TAKE ACTION: Go vote NO on Prop Q! Early voting through Oct.

💰⛺NEW: Here's the new digital ad from Save Austin Now explaining HOW MUCH taxpayer money the City of Austin has wasted on homelessness and HOW MUCH more they want to spend on it if Prop Q passes. Watch and share please! TAKE ACTION: Go vote NO on Prop Q! Early voting through

MYSTERY: Why haven’t the minutes from the AUGUST 13/14 city council meeting where the budget was adopted and amendments to Prop Q were finalized been posted for the public? The vote on Prop Q is in 12 days. That meeting was TEN WEEKS AGO. Absolutely absurd and indefensible.

In an absurdity that defies all logic, the City of Austin and Travis County DA Jose Garza & CA Delia Garza have allowed deeply mentally disturbed individuals to swing MACHETES in public FOR SEVERAL YEARS downtown, threatening tourists, children, women, families, and people who

Save Austin Now Austin's city budget grew from ~$3.7B in FY2016 to $6B in FY2025, a 62% rise, while population increased 8% (901k to 974k), yielding ~50% per capita spending growth over 10 years. Over 5 years, it's up ~25% per capita. Dallas experienced ~35% per capita growth (budget $3.2B to

Prop Q increases Austin’s city tax for renters and home owners by 20.2% in a single year, and forever. So the city must be starved for funding, in dire straights, with less and less money for critical services…. Right…….?

This is what ATX councillors think about us as they try to raise the cost of living again with Prop Q...(sound on from start!) (See full vid to hear councilor's Sweet Green+travel $ story (had to pay back) as he says can't find ANY waste, must raise costs on everyone #NoPropQ

On this episode of Taxpayer Empowerment, TPPF’s Jose Melendez sits down with Save Austin Now's Matt Mackowiak to discuss Austin’s Proposition Q, a ballot proposal by the City of Austin that would raise property taxes by 20%. texaspolicy.com/multimedia/art…

Save Austin Now co-chair Matt Mackowiak talked to Texas Public Policy Foundation on their podcast about #PropQ. Watch / Listen here: youtu.be/Zcq-xGG6zXI Learn more, find your voting location or calculate your tax increase if Prop Q passes here: SaveAustinNow.com. #DefeatPropQ

45,157 Ballots in Travis County 5% of Registered Voters Austin, send a clear message to City Council: Vote No on Prop Q Find Your Early Voting Location votetravis.gov/current-electi…

Must read Austin Statesman article on Houston vs. Austin approach on budget deficits: In August, Austin City Council member Marc Duchen found himself alone on the dais as the only “no” vote on a $6.3 billion budget. The vote wasn’t close, but it was consequential. The budget relied

DEFEAT PROP Q: There are only FIVE VOTING DAYS LEFT to stop a 20.2% city property tax increase FROM HITTING EVERY Austin homeowner, business owner and renter FOREVER. This tax increase produces $110M when the city's budget deficit is $33M (0.5% of the city budget and 2% of their