A town in Texas discovered that over $4 million of its local tax dollars were being sent to Israel. The town of San Marcos decided to stop that aid and Governor Greg Abbott does not want to let them do it.
Israel receives billions of dollars in Federal tax money. Why shouldn’t a local government decide not to send its own allocated local tax dollars abroad? Because Governor Abbott calls that “antisemitism.”
“In Texas, no governmental entity may enter into a contract worth $100,000 or more unless it includes a ‘written verification’ that the contracting entity ‘does not boycott Israel’ and ‘will not boycott Israel during the term of the contract,’” the Governor wrote in a letter.
The town is not trying to boycott Israel. They are trying to re-allocate their own money “towards essential domestic priorities” and the Governor is somehow mandating that supporting Israel is a local priority. It is absolutely insane. Does the town have to donate to every foreign ally?
This has got to go to court. How can a Governor disallow a municipality from stopping foreign aid?
