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Vance Ginn, Ph.D.

Vance Ginn, Ph.D., is an accomplished economist finding free-market solutions that let people prosper. He is founder and president of Ginn Economic Consulting where he provides high-quality research and trusted insights on how to affect change at the federal, state, and local levels. Ginn’s experience includes time in public policy, government, and academia. He is chief economist at Pelican Institute for Public Policy and a senior fellow at several think tanks, including at Americans for Tax Reform, Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), and Young Americans for Liberty.

The State of Texas spends too much and Texans pay skyrocketing tax bills. Texans can obtain lasting, meaningful property tax relief by slowing excessive state and local spending growth and using state surplus revenue to eliminate M&O school district property taxes.

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Later today, the Texas House will take up and consider its version of the 2026-27 state budget, which promises to be quite a long and interesting affair consider that almost 400 amendments were filed. In anticipation of that debate, it’s helpful to see where things stand numbers-wise. For its part, the Texas House’s proposed budget...

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Last month, the Austin American-Statesman launched an interesting new city salary database that shines a light on the “top-paid city of Austin employees of 2025.” The new details are quite interesting, especially given the city’s own recent admission that “Austin is experiencing a housing affordability crisis”—which is, of course, chiefly driven by government action. Using this tool, it’s obvious that city workers have become numerous and well-compensated. As the Statesman itself notes: “The city of Austin employed 13,567 full-time workers...

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State of Play: Real Property Tax Cuts

The one-pager outlines our analysis of how a “real cuts” plan compares with scenarios of a 2.5% rollback rate excluding debt and a 4% cap including debt. The current rollback rate is 8%, but it does not include local debt increases. Additionally, a tax ratification election on rates that exceed 8% can only be held...

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