Jose Navarro BalbuenaFor Texas Governor 2026 • Katy Mayor 2027
I am fighting on behalf of my tax bracket — families making under $100K from every walk of life across Texas. My National Centerpiece for IRS tax code reform is the Working-Class Standard Deduction ($100K–$175K). My Texas State Centerpiece is expanding Statewide Early College High Schools (ECHS) and the Texas Educator Masters Certification so teachers onboard to ECHS classrooms. We subsidize public education and offer schools tax exemptions—not Elon Musk, whose bootstraps are long enough to pull himself up. We are fighting to subsidize an $85K minimum salary for public educators, guarantee statewide subsidized farm-to-market hot school lunches, and put recreational adult THC on the ballot for Texas voters—dedicating 100% of THC sales tax solely to fund public education.
Working-Class Candidate"Self-educated Father, Renter, Small Business Owner, Tax Strategist, Insurance Agent, and Technical Engineer."
Tangible legislative solutions engineered to elevate working-class families, protect small businesses, and revolutionize education. Explore each core initiative below.
"My Executive Blueprint: Pathway to Legislation aims to offer transparency on how we reverse unpopular laws by promoting change through executive action which leads to legislation. While my National Centerpiece for Federal IRS Tax Code Reform is the Working-Class Standard Deduction ($100K single / $150K HOH / $175K married, offset with a $150 flat tax fee on all Schedule C earned & unearned income, 1% rate up to $250K), my Texas State Centerpiece is expanding Early College High Schools (ECHS) statewide alongside the Texas Educator Masters Certification so teachers onboard directly to ECHS classrooms. We must subsidize public education and offer schools tax exemptions—not Elon Musk, whose bootstraps are long enough to pull himself up. We will subsidize an $85,000 minimum base salary for public educators, establish statewide subsidized farm-to-market hot school lunches, and put recreational adult THC on the ballot for Texas voters to decide, dedicating 100% of THC sales tax revenue solely and explicitly to fund Texas public schools."
— Jose Navarro Balbuena, Community Impact & State Offices QuestionnaireI am The StandardDeduction.net Candidate, and as a working-class tax strategist, I see firsthand how the current code punishes the people who build this country. We need a system that rewards hustle, protects families, and fuels the American Dream. We advocate for a historic standard deduction of $100,000 for single filers, $150,000 for head of household, and $175,000 for married couples, paired with a marginal tax rate reduction down to 1% under $250,000 and a 3% homestead property tax circuit breaker.
Our Texas State Centerpiece breaks the predatory college debt trap by expanding Early College High Schools (ECHS) statewide so every public high school student graduates with an Associate Degree in Science, Arts, or Applied Science (60 college credit hours) tuition-free. We establish the Texas Educator Masters Certification providing state-funded graduate tuition and stipends for teachers onboarding to ECHS instruction. We subsidize public education and offer schools tax exemptions—not Elon Musk, whose bootstraps are long enough to pull himself up. We work towards a subsidized $85,000 minimum base salary for public educators, backed by a voter ballot referendum dedicating 100% of recreational THC sales tax solely and explicitly to Texas public schools.
Families save an average of $35,000 to $75,000 in university tuition and room/board while students earn 60 transferable college credits tuition-free.
Put adult-use THC on the ballot for Texas voters; dedicate 100% of sales tax solely to ECHS credits, farm lunches, $85k teacher salaries & Masters certs; $150 flat licenses.
State-funded graduate tuition & stipends for teachers onboarding to ECHS; subsidize public schools instead of giving tax abatements to Elon Musk.
Inspired by Jose's mother’s lifelong career as a public school lunch cashier, this initiative creates a statewide subsidized farm-to-market model linking Texas agricultural producers directly to school cafeterias—abolishing lunch-shaming, eliminating processed foods, and backed by the voter-approved THC school funding referendum.
Redirecting state nutrition procurement away from multinational processors straight into Texas family farms.
Free, hot, nutrient-dense scratch-cooked breakfast and lunch for every Texas public school student regardless of income.
100% of voter-approved THC sales tax revenues dedicated directly to subsidizing scratch-cooked farm meals and school operations.
Workers cannot survive on Texas's outdated $7.25 minimum wage, yet mom-and-pop small businesses cannot bear sudden payroll spikes alone. Jose’s plan utilizes the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) and Enterprise Zone Program to co-subsidize 50% of the wage increase for small employers with under 50 employees.
50% state payroll reimbursement for small businesses prevents layoffs while raising purchasing power.
Mega-corporations grossing over $50M pay the full $15/hr wage without subsidies.
Every extra dollar in a working Texan's pocket is spent immediately at local diners, grocers, and mechanics.
Replacing fear with verified due process. Partnering with foreign consulates to verify identity and issue Texas Provisional IDs linked to ITINs. Lowers auto insurance premiums for all Texas drivers and brings workers into the formal banking system.
Texans will no longer rent the picket fence dream. Greg Abbott has sold away the picket fence dream to corporations. We ban corporate 1-4 home buys, mandate corporate divestment, abolish HOA foreclosures, fast-track builder permits, and launch a Verified Renter Registry with binding 24-48h repair SLAs.
State-level TCOLE partnership integrated directly with local Neighborhood Watch programs, providing accredited community safety training, standardized de-escalation certifications, and direct verified dispatch links with municipal police and county sheriffs.
Deploying remote live telemetry monitoring on dams, levees, and critical ERCOT grid points with National Guard logistics. Enforcing strict Service Level Agreements with non-negotiable financial penalties on utilities for outages.
Texas leads the nation with the highest uninsured rate, forcing 26 rural hospitals to close since 2010. Jose will accept $5.4B in annual federal funds to stabilize rural hospitals, cap out-of-pocket insulin and inhaler costs, and ban surprise billing.
Actively screening with grassroots democratic and labor organizations across Texas.
Jose Navarro Balbuena isn't a career politician financed by Austin PACs and corporate lobbyists. He is a hands-on tax strategist, technical engineer, licensed insurance agent, notary public, presiding elections judge, and certified Volunteer Deputy Registrar (VDR) residing in Katy, Texas.
Having run an independent grassroots congressional campaign in 2024 across Texas District 22, Jose experienced firsthand the structural barriers entrenched parties place against working-class candidates. His mission is to bring transparent municipal management to Katy in 2027 and executive transformation to the Texas Governor's mansion in 2026.
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