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Officials blame Texas tax system for death of Marble Falls manufacturing project

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Officials blame Texas tax system for death of Marble Falls manufacturing project

An anonymous out-of-state manufacturer was looking for somewhere in Texas to build a 120-job facility. Executives settled on Marble Falls, a small town west of Austin, after getting a promise of tax breaks. But once they started digging into the numbers, they realized they were going to end up paying much more in property taxes than they could stomach. Click through to read about this deal that got away and what it says about rising taxes in Texas.