Texas is defending limited government and economic freedom against a federal leviathan bent on strangling the economy in order to prove the primacy of government. To what extent does the federal leviathan depend on Texas, and how does Texas compare to the rest of the world?
Kudos, Tarrant County
Fiscal conservatism is alive-and-well in Texas’ 3rd largest county. As evidence, consider that Tarrant County officials last year approved a tax rate below the no-new-revenue (NNR) tax rate, resulting in an astonishing “13.17 percent” rate reduction. As impressive as that was though, county leaders took things one step further by creating a 10% local option...