Many small and mid-sized cities and counties are right now considering tax rates that, if ultimately adopted, will result in homeowners paying higher taxes. In some cases, those threatened tax hikes are dramatic. To better understand which Texas taxpayers are in the danger zone, I recently surveyed numerous Notices of Public Hearing on Tax Increase,...
As the nation marked the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, an old debate returned: Is America a creedal nation—defined by the truths that all men are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights? Or is that claim a later abstraction that ignores blood, soil, culture, and the European origins of those ideas? Mike Gonzalez recently addressed this...
This issue of Veritas, the quarterly publication of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, features the Foundation's efforts to inform the public of the human cost of subsidizing wind energy, abolishing the "Robin Hood" school property tax, combating our growing civic illiteracy, and our part in the ACA lawsuit.