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Mary Nethery bought her home in San Antonio in 1990 in the historic King William area not realizing her property taxes would eventually shoot up to nearly $9,000. A Republican-backed plan to tackle skyrocketing property tax growth would save Texas homeowners precious little in the initial years. And by the time the savings of the median Texan hit $650 a year, the state would have to cough up more than $7 billion annually to offset the lost revenue for schools, according to a Hearst Newspapers analysis.