Solar farm tax abatements are why property taxes are skyrocketing in Hill and surrounding counties in north central Texas. Taxpayers and homeowners are fighting back against solar farm tax abatements by taking their fight to the federal level. Solar farm tax abatements must be stopped and repealed immediately. Solar farm tax abatement agreements are negotiated behind closed doors and taxpayers and homeowners have been denied due process under the law to participate in the process. Solar and wind farm tax abatement agreements are a significant cause and reason property taxes are increasing in Texas as local school superintendents and school boards forfeit locally available tax revenues to subsidize big business on the backs of taxpayers. Tax abatements are a key focus at Commonsenselaw.org and the focus and center of legal battle by taxpayers to expose fraud and corruption related to these lucrative tax abatements executed by local County Commissioners Courts and School Districts in north central Texas. Below is a list of problems and reasons why property taxes are high in Hill County.
- Fraud and Corruption
- Incompetent School Officials and Administrators
- Poor Legislation and Statutes Related to School Funding and Finance
- Tax Abatements that Subsidized Big Business by Reducing or Eliminatiing Locally Avaliable Tax Revenues
- No Financial or Academic Accountability and Holding School Officials for Misuse of Taxpayer Money
- Taxpayer Apathy and Lack of Engagement
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Deception is Their Specialty; The Hypocrisy Proves It!
Never Trust a Politician if Their Lips are Moving!
Groundwork has started for the new Nexus Data Center in Hubbard Texas. The massive data center is a prime example of the deception, fraud and corruption relating to the Green Energy industry in Texas. In the pictures below you can see dozens of Wind Turbines in the background located just south of 171 within a few miles of the data center site. Taxpayers have paid the price to subsidize the Green Energy industry in Texas via lucrative tax abatement agreements with local county government and public schools. Over a billion dollars of locally available tax revenue was forfeited by dozens of school districts scattered along several counties in north central Texas since 2016 with twenty-nine lucrative tax abatement agreements executed by school officials. Elected leaders, bureaucrats and company officials from multiple company’s hood-winked taxpayers when they tried to convince them the new Green Energy industry was going to help solve peak demand issues with the electric grid in Texas. The Nexus data center is going to have onsite power generation to supply the data center from natural gas turbine generators. The data center will be interconnected to the utility grid. During the Hill County Commissioners Court meeting held at the courthouse on February 24th taxpayers asked for key information pertaining to the new data center. Copies of permits from the TCEQ and the interconnect agreement with the utility provider were requested but not available. The air quality permit is still in progress with the TCEQ. The commissioner’s court met to discuss a tax abatement for the new data center without having all the facts, drawings, permits and etc. The Nexus data center is under construction there is no incentive at this point to award the owner/investors with a tax abatement agreement that will forfeit much needed tax revenue in the county. Taxpayers are tired of being the fall guy and Guinea pig used to subsidize big business in Texas.
 Nexus Data Center Site in Hubbard, Texas |  Nexus Data Center Site in Hubbard, Texas |  Hubbard Data Center Site in Hubbard, Texas |
Taxpayers have filed multiple federal complaints in February and March 0f 2025. They are seeking help from the federal level regarding violations of taxpayer’s rights provided under the US Constitution regarding due process under the law and having access to the process. County Commissioner’s courts and local school districts have acted outside the boundaries of authority and denied taxpayers a uniform and equal status as citizens and taxpayers. Taxpayers are joining forces and fighting back and will hold everyone accountable for their actions as the lawsuits move forward and filed in court. Thousands of homeowners are losing their homes in Texas due to skyrocketing property taxes as a direct result of large solar, wind farm and data center projects in Texas.
The only piece of information and evidence a taxpayer and homeowner needs to see and understand to prove the school funding system in Texas is and has been fundamentally broken in Texas is Table 1. that can be accessed by the link below. It provides a very clear picture why the school funding method and system has never worked in Texas. State leaders and lawmakers have manipulated taxpayers and homeowners for decades to try and make it appear they have a clue how to solve the school funding problems in Texas, when they do not even understand the problem in the first place.
“FREE”, Will Cost You Everything!
The pitch by elected leaders, bureaucrats and public-school officials that public education is “free” in Texas is a hard sell to those homeowners who have lost everything due to skyrocketing illegal property taxes in Texas. Taxpayers have taken their fight to the federal level regarding property tax and bond fraud relating to school bonds in Texas. Fraud and corruption surrounding tax abatement agreements and off-balance sheet long-term lease-purchase agreements that have cost homeowners and taxpayers billions of dollars are the focus in the federal complaints and civil lawsuits being brought forth against several north Texas school districts.
“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes”
-Thomas Paine
Taxpayers Are Learning How Legislators Use Their Power to Defraud Citizens in Texas
Since 2019 taxpayers are getting a real education about how the political process and their favorite elected leaders and representatives have used their power and position to defraud the citizenry of Texas and help create multi-billion-dollar businesses and industries and their buddies. If you ask the majority of people paying some attention the political debacle in Texas many will tell you they do not trust politicians and our system of government. Many believe the system is manipulated and crooked and rightfully so. But the majority of people do not understand how the system is manipulated and used in favor of elected leaders, big business and crooks. The state of Texas operates and functions and is dependent on system of fraud and corruption. It is no different than what happens at the federal level in Washington.
I’m going to start this with a question; What is Chapter 44.901, Fiscal Management, subchapter “Z”, Miscellaneous Provisions of the Texas Education Agency Code? My guess is that you as well as millions of Texans and current state leaders in office have never heard of this statute before. This is by design and intent to defraud the taxpayers of Texas and now one of the key pieces of evidence in multiple federal investigations going on in Texas since 2019. Over thirty years ago some very smart crooks hood-winked state leaders and representatives into going along with their devious and evil plan to make them rich all in the name of what appeared on the surface as good cause; Energy Conservation!
Subchapter “Z” Miscellaneous Provisions is the statute that has been used to finance billions of dollars of energy conservation contracts in over four hundred school districts in Texas using off-balance sheet long-term lease purchase agreements with third party financial institutions. This has taken place without taxpayers being aware or having a vote in decisions made by dozens of incompetent school officials that could not see through the Ponzi scheme. These multi-million-dollar contracts do not show up as debt by design and intent to hide the debt from taxpayers. For decades business managers for school districts have been writing checks to third party institutions to service the debt(s) for contracts that were executed before they went to work for the district they currently work in. Many ask questions about this but just go along not realizing they are breaking the law and the purpose and intent of Subchapter “Z”, Miscellaneous Provisions in the first place.
” This isn’t going to cost you anything”, a smart fifth grader knows better than to fall for this gig!
The “pitch” to state leaders and politicians in office at the time the legislation was passed for Subchapter “Z”, Miscellaneous Provisions was these contracts and projects were going to be “debt neutral” to the district and taxpayer. In simpler terms that a smart fifth grader can understand; this is not going to cost you anything! If you are starting to smell a rat, you are correct this is one really big smelly rat that our leaders and politicians fell for hook, line and sinker. The pitch was energy savings from these projects were going to pay for the work and services in the contract over a period of years much like how a home mortgage works. The really BIG PROBLEM is none of this is true, accurate or can even be proven in a court of law. There are multiple school districts that have been exposed in Texas and currently hiding behind lawyers paid for by taxpayers who are protecting them from their crimes of fraud and corruption by not following standard operating procedures and traditional contracting methods. The failure of school officials and state leaders to follow the law has cost taxpayers billions of dollars of overpriced projects and financing costs to service the debt from these contracts. School officials and business managers involved will face criminal charges for using funds from O&M accounts and budgets to cover off the short falls of energy savings projected that were to service the debt payments to third-party financial institutions involved. Many of these energy contracts turned out to be bad and has cost school districts millions of dollars to correct over many years due to poor decisions made by school districts and are a major contributor why property taxes are high in Texas.
Forever Chemicals being sprayed to control grass and weeds at a solar farm. Solar farm tax abatements have been executed with local school districts across several north central Texas counties. Taxpayers and landowners are joining forces to bring legal challenges forward against school district officials for endangering future generations from the runoff of forever chemicals into local streams, creeks and tributaries leading to reservoirs where drinking water comes from.
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It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure but just ain’t so!
-Mark Twain
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Loading up the nation with debt and leaving if for the following generations to pay is morally irresponsible. Excessive debt is a means by which government oppress the people and waste their substance. No nation has a right to contract debt for periods longer than the majority contracting it can expect to live.
-Thomas Jefferson
Overview-Issues Regarding Solar Farm Tax Abatements and Why Property Taxes are High in Texas
The corruption in the Texas with property taxes and public education is a direct result of multiple oversights and failures to test the idea and concepts put forth by elected leaders and public educators from its inception. Homeowners and taxpayers are uniting together to expose the fraud and corruption that has led to thousands of homeowners losing their most valuable asset their homes. Taxpayers have taken the fight to federal level in Texas after elected leaders and bureaucrats in Austin have failed for decades to correct the problems and protect homeowners.
Fraud and corruption in the Texas public school system is rampant from one end of the state to the other. This is in regard to funding, fraudulent financial accounting and reporting, contracting procedures, off-balance sheet financing, lease purchase agreements and lucrative tax abatements with Chapter 313 and JETI agreements that subsidize big business on the backs of taxpayers and homeowners. Tens of billions of dollars of public debt has been hidden from taxpayers for decades and have increased cost to taxpayers without their knowledge or consent.
The problems and issues surrounding public education system in Texas have cost taxpayers billions of dollars of over taxation and in many cases the loss of their most valuable asset their homes. Major efforts are underway across the state by taxpayers to expose those involved and hold them accountable to the full measure of the law. Chapter 313 and JETI agreements executed by school districts that forfeit billions of locally available tax revenues are being challenged at the federal level as direct and deliberate violation of the rights of citizens granted in the US Constitution. School superintendents and board of trustees have operated outside their authority and knowledge of the law and US Constitution in regard to citizens’ rights being allowed to participate in the due process of law.
The first school district where federal complaints have been filed in north central Texas is Itasca ISD in Hill County. These legal challenges have been underway since 2020 and have taken five years to work through the red tape and system. The FBI, DOJ and SEC are now involved, and thousands of pages of documents have been turned over as evidence. Chapter 313 Agreements executed by school officials are just one of the issues and areas of concern for taxpayers.
These agreements are in direct conflict with proposed bonds that have been put forth by the Itasca ISD board since 2022 and that have been voted down by taxpayers and homeowners who have been made aware of the issues and refusal of the Itasca ISD superintendent and board members to cooperate with complaints and investigations by a local resident and former energy industry employee with experience in energy contracting with school districts in eight states across the US.
Taxpayer’s Corner
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>School Bond Ponzi Scheme Updated- June 21, 2025- Click Here
School districts are facing more legal challenges by taxpayers in Texas that have begun legal challenges to expose fraud and corruption with lucrative tax abatements to subsidize the Green Energy industry on the backs of taxpayers by executing Chapter 313 Agreements in Texas since the early 2000’s. These problems explain why property taxes are high in Texas. Now major issues and concerns have been brought out to the public regarding hazardous waste and abandoned equipment littering the landscape where these projects were built. In north central Texas Hill County is the center of attention in these federal complaints and cases pursued by taxpayers.
Click Here- To Watch “Red Power” a video documentary by Michael Quinn Sullivan with the Texas Scorecard that provides a great visual picture of what citizens can expect in the future as a result of poor judgement and decisions by school districts in multiple counties in north central Texas.
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