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Texas Association of Business
Texas Association of Business (official logo)
TAB's framework — low taxes, tort reform, business-friendly regulation, workforce development, predictable property rights159 — aligns Abbott on the $18B property-tax cut, franchise-tax cuts, business personal-property exemption raise, R&D credit refundability, and top-state-business-relocation rankings. Hinojosa runs against TAB on 'tax the billionaires' framing, minimum-wage support, and data-center cost-allocation framing. TAB would likely endorse Abbott.
Issue
Abbott
Hinojosa
Property-tax cut
Helps
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Abbott: Helps · Hinojosa: —
Franchise-tax reductions
Helps
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Abbott: Helps · Hinojosa: —
TAB has long lobbied for franchise-tax reduction; Abbott's reductions earn credit. Hinojosa has not proposed franchise-tax cuts.
Business personal-property exemption raise
Helps
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Abbott: Helps · Hinojosa: —
TAB has prioritized raising the business personal-property tax exemption to relieve small employers; Abbott signed the exemption raise57. Hinojosa has not authored a comparable bill.
R&D credit refundability
Helps
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Abbott: Helps · Hinojosa: —
TAB backs R&D credit refundability as a workforce and capital-investment incentive; Abbott's R&D credit refundability overhaul59 aligns. Hinojosa has not led on R&D credits.
Veteran-owned business franchise-tax exemption
Helps
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Abbott: Helps · Hinojosa: —
TAB has supported veteran-business tax relief; Abbott signed the veteran-owned business franchise-tax exemption57. Hinojosa has not authored a comparable exemption.
Business-relocation rankings
Helps
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Abbott: Helps · Hinojosa: —
TAB markets Texas's top-state-business-relocation rankings as a recruitment tool; Abbott's continuing rankings record aligns. Hinojosa is not credited or blamed for the rankings but has not run on improving them.
Tax-the-billionaires-and-corporations framing
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Hurts
Abbott: — · Hinojosa: Hurts
TAB opposes corporate-tax increases and wealth taxation; Hinojosa's tax-the-billionaires-and-corporations framing1 runs against the framework. Abbott aligns with TAB — opposed — so it does not affect his read.
Minimum-wage increase
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Hurts
Abbott: — · Hinojosa: Hurts
TAB opposes mandated wage floors that raise small-business labor costs; Hinojosa has supported raising the minimum wage.1 Abbott aligns with TAB opposing the hike and is unaffected.
Data-center cost-allocation framing
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Hurts
Abbott: — · Hinojosa: Hurts
TAB membership includes data-center operators; Hinojosa's framing of data-center grid costs as a corporate-subsidy problem1 runs against the membership's interests. Abbott has not pushed back against data-center expansion.
Workforce development (teacher pay)
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Helps
Abbott: — · Hinojosa: Helps
TAB has supported workforce-development spending as a pipeline for Texas employers; Hinojosa's teacher-pay bills17 earn partial workforce-development credit. Abbott's vouchers-over-funding posture sits awkwardly with workforce-pipeline framing but he has signed teacher-pay raises.
Sources
- Gina Hinojosa for Texas Governor, official campaign priorities page, accessed May 2026. (full list)
- Patrick Svitek, 'Gov. Greg Abbott signs $18 billion property tax cut into law,' Texas Tribune, July 22, 2023. (full list)
- Texas AFT, 'This week in the legislature: Let's talk about educator pay raises,' covering Hinojosa's Fully Fund Our Future Act questioning of TEA Commissioner Mike Morath. (full list)
- Office of the Governor, 'Governor Abbott signs laws to bolster Texas small businesses.' (full list)
- Reed Smith, 'Texas Legislature overhauls the franchise tax R&D credit,' analysis, 2025. (full list)
- Texas Association of Business: workforce-development, tort-reform, low-tax, predictable-regulation framework. (full list)