This perspective outlines proposed principles for determining budget priorities, providing certain criteria for legislators to use when faced with hard decisions and limited funds in the state’s budget writing process.
Taxes & Spending
Texas DOGE Roars to Life
Nearly one year ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 14 in an effort to “slash regulations, put stricter standards on new regulations that could be costly to businesses, and put a check on the growth of the administrative state.” All worthy goals too considering the Lone Star State’s cumbersome regulatory environment, which recently ranked “as the fifth most-regulated…in the nation, after California,...
May 15, 2026