The 85th Texas Legislature looks to make Texas the leader in America—and even the world—in tax policy by ending the business franchise tax.
Who knows what is best for Texans—Washington or Texas? Who is more responsive to your telephone calls, your concerns, and your vote: your Texas legislator, or your Congressional delegation?
Testimony before the House Committee on Juvenile Justice & Family Issues by Brandon Logan, J.D., CWLS.
Vance Ginn, Ph.D, testimony before the Senate Finance Committee for SB 9 on Strengthening Texas’ Appropriations Limit.
Trees are timber — a natural resource that belongs to private property owners in the same way as a backyard garden. It would be absurd to require a government permit to harvest your peppers and potatoes — yet many Texas cities strictly regulate trees on your land.
The data reveal that older Americans with “outstanding student loans are more likely than those without outstanding student loans to report that they have skipped necessary health care needs such as prescription medicines, doctors’ visits, and dental care because they could not afford it." This increased burden on older Americans has caused them to tap savings that were being safeguarded for their retirement years.
With the confirmation process of Alex Acosta as labor secretary underway and proposed budget cuts for the Department of Labor, the Trump administration seems poised to reverse direction.
For more than 50 years, the federal government has dominated healthcare using a military command-and-control model.
As long as Medicaid is a free entitlement, many people will have no commitment, will not be personally invested, will see no value in the program, and won’t sign up. A good solution is some form of work requirement.
On Tuesday, the Texas Senate gave their approval to Senate Bill 2, the Property Tax Reform and Relief Act of 2017, on a vote of 18-12. Passage of the bill means that strong taxpayer protections, like an automatic election trigger and a reduced rollback tax rate, are one step closer to becoming reality, much to...
While Texas most certainly values education, using criminal punishment as the primary tool to ensure school attendance was a misallocation of public safety resources that failed to address the root cause of chronic absences.
The Texas Model has demonstrated that it is creating the right incentives for businesses to invest in the Lone Star State: low spending per capita, low taxes, low regulation. The creation of an additional business incentive program that uses taxpayer money to provide services, including training programs, to private businesses in order to lure them...