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The Governor and the Lege did the wrong thing to encourage the 100-year long run of misrepresentation, rudeness and bullying of the oil field crowd. <br/><br/>They have declared themselves exempt from all the rules of civilization, simply because their work is SO important to the keeping the World safe for Democracy. What a bunch of blow hards.</p> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> June 17 @ 10:49 a.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> Carlos "Scooter" Griffin - Tax Payer-Gregg County </span> </p> <p class="comment">I was fracking wells in Denton and surrounding counties in the 70's-80's. The area was much more rural and the reserve potential was found to be huge. The city had not moved to the country at that time.Texas has placed dominance on the mineral estate and for very good reason. The Tax Base offers valued sustenance to the County and State. <br/><br/>In come the Home Builders/Buyers and they fail to purchase much, if any, of the mineral estate under their beautiful homes. City now comes to the country. That in itself presents a terrible conflict between the mineral estate owners and the surface/home owners. <br/><br/>Threatening substantial reductions to the tax revenues from the mineral estate is sorely overlooked, possibly ignored. If the Home Owners were required to maintain the tax revenues lost from eliminating development of the mineral estate, then the Home Owners would be elated to hear the Drilling rigs running and the Frac trucks roaring.<br/><br/>Be careful what you wish for folks!</p> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> </ul> </section> </div> <div class=" rail cell w-4 hide-for-medium-down"> <section class="trib_newsletter"> <form action="https://web.archive.org/web/20150621015728/http://texastribune.us3.list-manage2.com/subscribe/post?u=3d0ce87edeeb6df90043897db&id=68501b81bf" method="post" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" class="validate" target="_blank" novalidate> <header> <h2>Sign Up for The Brief</h2> </header> <p>Our daily news summary</p> <div class="mc-field-group nowrap"> <input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="input_neue required email" id="mce-EMAIL" placeholder="enter your email here"> <input type="submit" value="Submit" name="subscribe" 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