Texas faces some significant transportation challenges, but much of the crisis can be averted if the state rethinks and re-prioritizes transportation funding. This policy perspective examines some alternatives to generate additional transportation revenue without raising taxes and fees.
Taxes & Spending
May 2026’s Top 10 Most Expensive School Bonds
Next month, independent school districts (ISDs) will, again, ask voters to approve massive new borrowing schemes that threaten to unleash a wave of tax hikes and bigger bureaucracies. These fiscal excesses appear widespread too. Taxpayers in nearly 60 different counties will decide on one or more of the 109 individual propositions up for a vote this election cycle, according to the Texas Bond Review Board’s (BRB’s) bond election database. If these measures are entirely successful,...
April 21, 2026