These programs and projects are just a small sample of the big-time waste that exists in places like Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth and elsewhere. These real-life examples are living, breathing proof that city governments have plenty of fat in their budgets and little incentive to prioritize.
As legislators allocate taxpayer dollars, it’s essential for them to consider how best to strengthen economic freedom statewide to unleash the economic potential of all Texans.
Texas has become the nation's economic engine in large part because we have allowed competition to bring lower prices and better products in markets such as telecommunications, electricity and oil and gas. Title insurance should be no different.
Texas performs relatively well in measures of financial stability by ranking 16th nationwide in fiscal health and 2nd lowest in state debt per capita among the top 10 most populous states. These rankings along with historically high growth rates in economic output and population (see Chart 1) indicate that Texas has remained steadfast in having...
According to a recent report from the Texas comptroller, local government coffers have become swollen with new revenues over the past two decades, thanks to persistently high increases in the property tax.
Veritas, the quarterly publication of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, highlights the Foundation's role in the current 85th Legislature, how the Foundation plans to empower states and restore economic opportunity to all Americans, and how education savings accounts can transform Texan children and families. Veritas also profiles new center directors Chip Roy & Brandon Logan, addresses Millennials...
We want states to reduce spending, yet Washington rewards them—with federal dollars—when they spend more!
Testimony by Brandon Logan, J.D., CWLS before the House Human Services Committee on Community-Based Foster Care.
The latest report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) shows that many states’ economies improved in the third quarter of 2016. Real gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of inflation-adjusted economic output, increased in 48 states and the District of Columbia. This contributed to a faster U.S. annualized economic growth rate of 3.5 percent...
Texas doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. By achieving the goals outlined by Governor Abbott to restrain spending, the 85th Legislature can take steps to create the STaR Fund and put the margins tax on a path to death as quickly as possible.
In a statewide poll done for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Baselice & Associates asked 922 registered Texas voters (+/- 3.2% margin of error) from Jan. 22 to 29, 2017, the following question: “Civil asset forfeiture is when the state or federal government takes and keeps a person’s property without necessarily charging them with any...