DALLAS — Texas voters this week showed wariness toward raising property taxes — and embraced cutting them.

Voters across the state shot down bids by school districts and cities to increase funds to hire teachers and police officers, pave roads and keep schools humming. More than half of those measures failed in Tuesday’s elections, according to a Texas Tribune analysis.

The most dramatic failure came out of Austin, where voters in one of the state’s most liberal cities rejected a measure to boost tax bills to tackle homelessness, bolster public safety and close a multi-million dollar budget gap — a stunning rebuke against Austin City Hall.

At the same time, Texas voters handed homeowners and business owners significant property tax breaks by wide margins.

To tax-cut proponents, that

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